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HMLR's announcement said:

HM Land Registry is partnering with software company Methods, who will utilise R3’s blockchain platform, Corda, for the second phase of HM Land Registry’s ground-breaking research and development project, Digital Street.
Methods will be supported by a team of global experts from R3, Blockchain Digital, and their wider partner network. The organisations will bring their blockchain expertise to HM Land Registry, enabling Digital Street to fully explore the potential benefits of the new technology.
Digital Street will work with the industry to understand how the innovative use of technology, such as blockchain, distributed ledgers and smart contracts, could revolutionise the land registration and property buy-sell process.
Graham Farrant, Chief Executive of HM Land Registry, said:
Our ambition to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, ease of use and an open approach to data requires HM Land Registry to be at the forefront of global innovation in land registration. By working with Methods on Digital Street we are taking another step toward that goal, as we explore how new technologies like blockchain can help us to develop a faster, simpler and cheaper land registration process.

Let’s try that in English, shall we? This is simpler:
HM Land Registry (with software company Methods) will use R3’s “Corda” system, for the second phase of its project “Digital Street”. The Blockchain Digital technology will improve land registration and conveyancing.
Graham Farrant, Chief Executive of HM Land Registry, said:
HM Land Registry is the world’s leading land registry. It seeks speed, ease of use, and open data. We- with Methods- want Digital Street to make land registration faster, simpler, and cheaper.

So maybe HMLR needs to think about its own usages first?