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Landlords on the High Street
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Tim Lund


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24-09-2012 10:07 AM

Apologies for what is largely a cross post here from one I just put on the Sydenham Town Forum ...

In the scoping documents for the posts currently being advertise on SEE3 I found this:

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2.15 The high street also suffers from the disengagement and negligence of some landlords in improving their units. This is further exacerbated by the difficulty in obtaining information about who owns or rents particular units or in contacting absent landlords.


Source here

According to an Excel workbook maintained by our previous Town Centre Manager, there are c. 700 retail properties in Sydenham, Forest Hill, Honor Oak and Brockley, but with few details on landlords. However, it costs only £3 to obtain this information from the Land Registry, so I would think a first step should be to invest an amount up to just over £2,000 in collecting this official information.

There will be much more to it than this, e.g. how to keep this information up to date, and what sort of restrictions on its use were imposed by the license under which the Land Registry would supply this data. To which end I have just emailed 'copyright@landregistry.gov.uk' as follows:

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Dear Sirs:

I would like to know what the approach of the Land Registry would be to licencing its information for use by an organisation set up for a community purpose, e.g. the regeneration of a local High Street. The context for this request is a ‘Portas Pilot’ project supported by my local council (LB Lewisham) – ‘SEE3’ – which has identified a problem:

[quote and source as above]

The ultimate aim would be a database of such information get up to date both from ‘crowd sourced’ information – e.g. threads such as this ‘New Openings, New Closings’on a local web Forum - and official information public domain but still copyright information such as yours.

Your general advice would be invaluable, and even more any similar uses of your data.

Tim Lund

cc. Petra Marshall, LB Lewisham / SEE3


I am sure I am not the only one on the Forum who would like to help the SEE3 team in this way.

This post was last modified: 24-09-2012 10:09 AM by Tim Lund.

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Landlords on the High Street - michael - 11-09-2012, 11:55 AM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - AMFM - 11-09-2012, 02:12 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - michael - 11-09-2012, 04:54 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - BobbyL - 12-09-2012, 03:16 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - P1971 - 12-09-2012, 10:25 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - SEN - 16-09-2012, 04:18 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - michael - 20-09-2012, 12:11 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - Tim Lund - 24-09-2012 10:07 AM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - lacb - 24-09-2012, 11:49 AM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - FHSoc - 24-09-2012, 01:27 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - Belle - 24-09-2012, 01:52 PM
RE: Landlords on the High Street - wilde - 12-10-2012, 09:52 PM

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