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It's odd to be considering a European style cadastre if we are about to leave the EU. And some European land registers (e.g. Netherlands and Belgium) are only deeds registers, not a title register with statutory guarantee like that of England and Wales.

The concept of a "Public Data Corporation" foundered before (in around 2014) because the functions - and statutory remit - of HM Land Registry, Ordnance Survey, Companies House and Met Office were too different; in addition, HMLR's data carries a statutory guarantee, which the other organisations' data does not. HMLR is not just a filing agency. Property law is complex and "land" means not just surface land but airspace and subsoil also; the extent of "ownership" shown by paper title deeds can be different from (a) the occupied extent (b) the extent shown on the current OS map and (c) the registered extent shown on the Land Registry title plan. Land registration started in England and Wales in 1862 on the basis of fixed boundaries but this was soon abandoned as it was unworkable, hence the system of "general boundaries" that we have now (albeit it is possible to apply for a determined boundary under the Land Registration Act 2002).

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