The Land Registry is stepping up its efforts to encourage farmers and landowners in Somerset to voluntarily register their land.  Although 55 per cent of land in Somerset is now registered, 45 per cent of land in the county - around 157,000 hectares - still remains unregistered. 

PricedOut says - Just how much land in the UK is still unregistered?  How can we plan to build the right number of houses in the right places if vital land availability information is missing?

Land Registry will have an information stand at livestock markets in Frome on 16 January and Shaftesbury on 24 January and at the Dairy Show at the Bath & West Showground on 30 January.  The voluntary registration initiative is part of a drive by Land Registry - the government department responsible for registering land ownership in England and Wales - to seek people who own agricultural land and help them to identify and register what they own. It offers landowners more certainty and security about their property.

PricedOut says - It looks like the government are going begging for this information to so called "landowners and farmers"!  Just who is in charge here?  By what right can these people lay claim to hundreds and thousands of acres of land when little of it is registered?  We need this land for houses - now!