HM Land Registry is planning to share data from its Local Land Charges (LLC) Register with the Geovation Accelerator programme.
Its LLC programme director, Mark Kelson, said in a blogpost said it is taking the step to help find new ways of untapping hidden value from the pool of data on local land charges.
The accelerator, backed by Land Registry and Ordnance Survey, provides support for start-ups using geospatial and property data.
The agencies plan to work together to encourage entrepreneurs to examine the LLC dataset to identify social and economic benefits.
“An open ecosystem of digital services that support property transactions is developing, supported by our data and service connections,” Kelso said. “We must continue to work with customers, stakeholders, and the market to achieve our goal and find new ways to improve home buying and selling.”
Migration milestone
Land Registry is aiming to transfer all LLC data from local authorities in England to the register by 2025. It recently passed a milestone of 50 councils having migrated their data, and Kelso said it has digitised and transferred more than 2.5 million charges.
He also outlined the development of two tools to support the migration: the Data Analysis Dashboard that analyses and audits the data to highlight duplication and errors; and the Migration Helper that provides a space where Land Registry and local authorities can work through data issues identified by the DAD.
The agency is also using machine learning and optical character recognition to extract and convert written information on scanned images of the LLC records into textual data.
