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.
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