HM Land Registry has said that digital applications will now be the default approach for business customers submitting applications for changes to its register.
It said they should be using the digital registration service through its portal or via legal software connected to its Business Gateway API service.
This follows the agency’s announcement of its intention to go digital in October 2021, a redesign of the customer portal and the publication of its Strategy 2022+, which includes a target for the end-to-end automation of 70% of updates to the Land Register by 2025.
Deputy director for digital services Eddie Davies commented: “Our objective is to support the development of a simpler, paperless, transparent and user-friendly process for buying and selling property. This update to the portal, and the move to digital by default, is a major milestone in achieving this objective through greater automation which we hope will ultimately lead to better services and quicker applications.
“By automating services, we expect to significantly improve completion of straightforward transactions with an ambition to return to same day applications for many.”
Land Registry said that since the start of the year the digital registration service has received over half a million applications, and requisitions for name and fee errors have fallen by nearly 40%.
