PRECISELY who owns my land and property?

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank your for your communication.

Regarding your first question, I can confirm that Land Registry registers titles to estates in land. Those with title to a legal estate (the 'owners'), have a right to be registered as its proprietor.

I regret that I cannot make any further comment without information identifying the property involved.

Turning to your second question, I regret that I do not fully understand the information you require.

I can confirm that Schedule 4 to the Land Registration Act 2002 makes provision for alteration of the register of title to correct a mistake, bring the register up to date, giving effect to an estate etc. excepted from the effect of registration, or remove a superfluous entry. Otherwise there is no procedure in the 2002 Act for deregistering the title to a freehold or leasehold estate in land following its registration, whether that registration was voluntary or compulsory. Section 119 of the 2002 Act allows for the removal of the title to a registered manor from the register of title, but not for the removal of a registered estate in land.

I hope this information addresses the points you have raised.

Yours faithfully
Land Registry, Head Office

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Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your communication.

Dealing with each of your points in turn:

a) There is nothing that I can usefully add to my previous response

b) I regret that I do not understand your question.

c) Sections 4-8, Land Registration Act 2002 relates to the requirement of registration and the duty to apply for registration of title.

We do not have authority to release extracts of legislation to customers, but this can be viewed at the Office of Public Sector Information's website - please find a link below:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2002/ukp...

d) There is nothing that I can usefully add to my previous response.

I hope this information is of some use to you.

Yours faithfully
Ian Flowers
Customer Service
Land Registry, Head Office
Direct Line 020 7166 4285
GTN 7 3504 4285

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Dear
Sir/Madam,
Date : 2 March 2010

Thank you for your e-mail dated 26 February 2010 requesting an internal
Review of Land Registry's handling of your Freedom of Information request
- PRECISELY who owns my land and property?

Your request will be referred to one of the Lawyers in our Corporate Legal
Services Group for a reply.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number in any future communications.

Yours faithfully

Freedom of information officer
Land Registry
Head Office
32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3PH

Dear Land Registry,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Land Registry's
handling of my FOI request 'PRECISELY who owns my land and
property?'.

It is abundantly clear that the FOI agent is either totally
ignorant or being deliberately vexatious. The FOI agent REFUSES to
distinguish between legal and LAWFUL and will therefore NOT answer
ANY of my quetions, nor point me to the person who will...

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:

[1]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pr...

Yours without ill will, vexation or frivolity,

Sarah: Goldsmith

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Dear Sarah Goldsmith

I refer to your email dated 26 February 2010, requesting an internal
review of your FOI request.

The matter has been referred to me. I am one of the lawyers in Corporate
Legal Services. We oversee requests of information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

First, I would like to state that there was no deliberate reason to avoid
answering your questions and if you consider this to be the case, then I
apologise.

The questions you raised are:

(1) Are the Land Registry, the UK Government, some other
`corporation' or me, Sarah, an individual sovereign being of sound mind
and with a living soul, the Sole and only owner of the property on your
register?

(2) If by coercion, my property has been registered with yourselves
so I am not the sole and only owner of my property despite you stating
`Voluntary registration is a choice', please tell me what recourse I may
lawfully take to remedy this immediately as voluntary registration
lawfully implies that I may Lawfully apply for voluntary Un-registration
or it has become an unenforceable unilateral contract.

Your request was referred to our Customer Service section as your
questions related to land registration, provisions of the Land
Registration Act 2002 and procedures under the Land Registration Rules
2003 and an explanation of registration of title and its effect. I
consider that Mr Flowers provided the information and dealt with your
questions.

In relation to Freedom of Information, under section 21 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA), we are not required to provide information to
a request if the information requested is reasonably accessible to you
i.e. by another existing means without the need for a FOI request. The
information is exempt for Freedom of Information and is not covered by
FOIA.

In this case the information you have requested is so available and I
enclose a link to the following guides:-

(1) Public Guide 3 - General Land Registry information. Please see 4.4.
(2) Public Guide 8 - Registration of title to land its characteristics
and advantages. Please see 2
(3) Public Guide 13 - Applications for first registration made by an owner
in person. This explains that certain areas in England and Wales were
subject to compulsory registration and also briefly explains voluntary
registration.

(4) Public Guide 17 - How to safeguard against property fraud.
(5) Public Guide 22 -Keeping your name in the register up to date

These Public Guides can be downloaded from our website
www.landregistry.gov.uk (Forms & Publications/Public Guides) and provide
the information you seek.

I hope that this reply deals with the issues raised. If you are not
content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to
apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF.

Yours sincerely

Sushma Acharya
Corporate Legal Services

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