From Monday 20th March to Friday 31st March the Land Registry will be conducting a 2-week trial where they will be widening the criteria under which some registration applications are rejected.

During this period an application may be rejected if it;

• does not meet the execution requirements for deeds
• does not include evidence for power of attorney
• does not contain the correct fee for a new title application
• is a First Registration and is not on the correct form (FR1)
• is a First Registration and form FR1 does not contain adequate information in panels 3, 5, 12 and 17.

 
The Land Registry are aiming to improve the quality of the applications they receive.

Read more about the trial here

Chris Bryant Shadow Leader of the House of Commons has asked for a debate on the Governments proposed sale of UK national assets including the land Registry 

"May we have a debate about the sale of UK national assets? Since this Chancellor came to office he has sold off the student loan book, the Royal Mail and the future of our nuclear power industry, and he announced yesterday that he will sell off the Land Registry, the Ordnance Survey, air traffic control and the Green Investment Bank. I have a little book here that I will give to the Leader of the House. I will not throw it across the Chamber; he can come up to my study later. It is a copy of Shakespeare’s play “Richard II”. I am sure hon. Members will remember that wonderful speech:

“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise”, but do they remember that it ends:
“Is now leas’d out... like to a tenement or pelting farm”?

That is what the Tories have done. Shakespeare predicted 400 years ago that they would sell off all our national assets."

​Read Chris Bryants speech here

Graham Farrant, CEO of Land Registry, has asked conveyancers to email him about registrations outstanding for a long time.

Mr. Farrant's offer came after he received complaints from conveyancers at the Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) Annual Conference about some registrations taking more than 18 months.

Conveyancers also expressed disappointment that Land Registry appeared to be focussing on taking over the Local Land Charges Register rather than improving the efficiency of their current duties.

 Email your examples to Mr. Farrant at graham.farrant@landregistry.gsi.gov.uk 

Read the Todays Conveyancer article here