Anonymous 'Who Owns England' 2016/7 research project

Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Tue Jan 3 23:01:51 GMT 2017 

Somebody calling thernselves 'Guy' writes in the 
first person but seems to be deliberately hiding his surname...  a bit weird
Anyway fascinating research and he says he's got 
money from Simon Fairlie to investigate an up to date Who Owns Britain
Not sure if this an attempt to update Kevin 
Cahill's 2001 book 'Who Owns Britain'?
TG


<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/>WHO OWNS ENGLAND?

When I started this blog back in August, I didn’t 
expect it to generate the interest that it has. 
But I’ve been constantly blown away by the number 
of readers, retweets, media interest and, most of 
all, kind offers of help. My thanks to everyone 
who’s read and contributed to this blog over 
these past months – and particularly to two 
contributors who wanted to remain anonymous, but 
who have done a huge amount to help me obtain and 
crunch through data on who owns England.
https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/who-owns-england-what-we-know-so-far-where-next/

A new year’s a good time to take stock, so I 
thought I’d do a summary of what I’ve found out 
so far, and follow that up with a taster of investigations yet to come.

What do we now know about Who owns England?

We now know that:
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/the-50-companies-that-own-over-a-million-acres-of-england-wales/>50 
companies own 1.3 million acres of England & 
Wales – including housebuilders Taylor Wimpey, 
supermarket giant Tesco and building materials company Lafarge.
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/liquid-assets-land-owned-by-the-water-utilities/>Nine 
water companies own 345,977 acres of England – 
rising to 423,952 acres of England & Wales when 
Welsh Water is added in. Eight of the water 
utilities make it into the top 50 land-owning 
companies in England & Wales. Some are much more 
transparent than others, with some of the largest 
landowning water utilities – like United 
Utilities and Yorkshire Water – still refusing to 
release maps of their landholdings.
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/who-owns-englands-grouse-moors/>Grouse 
moors cover at least 550,000 acres of England, 
with at least 300,000 of these acres owned by 
just 30 huge estates – a number of which are 
owned offshore, and most of whom rake in large 
public farm subsidies. This survey’s far from 
complete, however, with many more grouse moor 
estates yet to be listed and mapped.
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/mod-land/>The 
Ministry of Defence owns 750,000 acres. Despite 
their historic secrecy, the MOD have disclosed to 
me a map of their land holdings for the first time.
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/what-does-whitehall-own/>The 
rest of Whitehall’s government departments own 
192,588 acres. You can see maps of land owned by 
DEFRA, Natural England, the Environment Agency 
and the former Department of Energy & Climate 
Change 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/what-does-whitehall-own/>here; 
and 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/how-much-public-land-is-available-for-house-building/>here’s 
details on land owned by the Homes & Communities Agency.
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/what-do-the-oxford-colleges-own/>Oxford 
Colleges own at least 29,000 acres and probably 
more like 128,000 acres, but the richest colleges 
are reluctant to disclose details, whilst the 
poorest are happy to declare they own little land. Quelle surprise

    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/to-the-manor-born-mapping-the-grosvenor-estate/>The 
Grosvenor Estate owns 140,000 acres – including a 
grouse moor, farmland and 300 acres of central 
London’s prime real estate – all recently 
inherited by the 25-year-old Seventh Duke of Westminster.
    * The Forestry Commission owns 2.2 million 
acres, making it the single largest landowner in 
Britain, while the RSPB owns 320,000 acres – 
check out maps of the land owned by these two 
organisations 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/the-birds-and-the-trees-land-owned-by-the-rspb-and-forestry-commission/>here. 

    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/who-owns-parliament/>The 
Crown still claims ownership of the Houses of 
Parliament, despite the monarch having been 
forbidden to enter the Commons since the Civil War.
    * 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/englands-missing-acres/>Only 
80% of the land in England and Wales has been 
registered, with a fifth yet to be recorded by 
the Land Registry. But the good news is that the 
Land Registry has been saved from privatisation, 
and 
<https://whoownsengland.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/why-we-must-open-up-the-land-registry/>more 
organisations are now calling for it to be opened 
up – something the government has hinted very tentative support for.

So what’s next?

Rest assured there is much, much more to come. So 
here’s a sneak peek at some of the investigations 
and blog posts I’ve got underway:
    * I’m hoping to share with you a map of all 
the land ownership data I’ve gathered so far – 
the most comprehensive map of land ownership in England yet built.
    * Who owns England’s uplands? I’ve been given 
funding by <http://tlio.org.uk/chapter7/>Chapter 
7 / The Land Is Ours to construct a complete map 
of land ownership of the English uplands. This 
will build on previous investigations into grouse 
moors and water utilities. The uplands are a 
fascinating and heavily contested part of the 
English landscape: who owns and manages them is 
of great importance to reducing flooding, 
protecting species, and combatting climate 
change. Yet they are owned by a vanishingly small 
number of people and organisations.
    * Who owns the land most sought-after for 
housebuilding? And is landbanking by certain 
firms and individuals driving up house prices?
    * Who owns our best-quality agricultural 
land? And is it being used wisely, or wasted?
    * What land is owned by councils? This one’s 
gonna take a lot of work to pull together, but a 
group of kind volunteers have offered to help out.
    * What do the Royals own? I’ll be picking 
apart the ancient landholdings of the Crown 
Estate, the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, 
and the Queen’s private estates.

Onwards into 2017 – and to answering the question of who owns England!

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