[Diggers350] Government to lift Land Registry paywall, make land ownership details public, and free

Thu Mar 19 01:30:37 GMT 2026

Government to lift Land Registry paywall, make 
land ownership details public, and free

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<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/18/government-to-lift-paywall-from-large-parts-of-land-registry>Fiona 
Harvey Environment editor Wed 18 Mar 2026

Finding out who owns land in England is to become 
much simpler because a paywall will be lifted 
from large parts of the Land Registry, the government is to announce.

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/18/government-to-lift-paywall-from-large-parts-of-land-registry>
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A small number of landowners control the majority 
of land but finding out who owns what is 
difficult to piece together, even for government 
departments, owing to the way the Land Registry 
operates. Freeing up access will make it easier 
to determine ownership of key areas, such as 
river catchments, grouse moors and peatland.

The change comes as part of a major reform to the 
way Englands land is managed. The governments 
long-awaited land use framework  to be unveiled 
by Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, on 
Wednesday afternoon  marks the first time that 
government has attempted to assess how best to 
use farmland, nature reserves and areas of 
degraded land to help balance competing needs for 
land for food production, housing, energy and industry.

For the first time, ministers will set out how 
much land is needed to meet the UKs net zero 
target through growing forests and restoring 
peatland as carbon sinks and through energy 
generation from solar and wind-farms. Only about 
1% of land will be needed for renewable energy 
generation, according to the governments new 
estimate, and much of the land required will 
still be used for food production, for instance 
through livestock grazing around wind-farms and under solar panels.

New mapping will also make it easier to assess 
how the restoration of peatlands in upland areas 
could reduce flooding from rivers, which is 
expected to worsen as the climate crisis deepens.

Reynolds said: It is more important than ever 
that we make the right decisions about our finite 
land, especially in the face of the dual threat 
of the climate and nature crises. The land use 
framework will hardwire climate resilience and 
nature-based solutions into our decision-making 
to ensure that we have safe homes for the future.

Guy Shrubsole, author of Who Owns England?, said: 
The bold promise to open up the Land Registry 
would finally bring to an end a thousand years of 
secrecy shrouding who owns England, and enable 
greater scrutiny of what goes on behind the 
barbed-wire fences that criss-cross the 
countryside. Given that 1% of the population own 
half of England, its only reasonable that the 
largest landowners should be held most 
responsible for restoring nature to these 
dewilded isles. The new land use framework is 
an ambitious step towards making England a 
greener, fairer and more pleasant land.

However, the government will stop well short of 
directing how land must be used in any area. 
There will be no attempts to force landowners to 
give up control and no national scheme to mandate 
the conversion of land to carbon sinks. The 
framework will be used to steer house-builders 
away from constructing homes on flood-plains, 
after concerns about the number of new-build 
homes at risk from flooding as the climate crisis worsens.

The aim that everyone should be within 15 minutes 
of a green space or water will also become easier 
to meet within the new framework, as councils 
will be given tools to identify where green space 
is lacking so that they can invest accordingly. 
About one in five people in England lack such 
access at present, but this is worst among the most deprived communities.

Farmers have been concerned that food production 
would be downgraded in favour of turning land to 
nature protection or use as carbon sinks, for 
instance through growing forests. But campaigners 
said there need not be a contradiction between nature protection and farming.

Wildlife in the UK is in crisis so nature must 
be given space to recover, said Brendan 
Costelloe, policy director at the Soil 
Association. But for the land that will remain 
farmland, its vital the government recognises 
that food production does not have to stop to 
create space for nature. We can and must make 
sure the land thats producing food is doing so in a nature-friendly way.

The Soil Association wants more support for 
farmers to grow peas and beans, which fix 
nitrogen in the soil naturally, and more trees to 
be planted for forage, human food and wood, as 
well as a shift away from growing crops that 
require a high degree of soil disturbance on slopes and flood-plains.

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