Question reference: S5W-25890
- Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 17 October 2019
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Current status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 1 November 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made toward completing the Land Register of Scotland by 2024, and what information it has regarding how many local authorities have not engaged in registering publicly-owned lands in their area.
Answer
This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland (RoS). She advises that they continue to work with public and private landowners to complete the Land Register of Scotland by 2024.
As of 30 September 2019 the Land Register has 36.6% of land mass (estimated as 67.9% of titles). Projections show that RoS are on target to complete 50% land mass by March 2021 and to reach completion by 2024.
Across the programme to complete the land register, RoS have engaged with all local authorities with varying degrees of activity demonstrated across the 32.
To date 110 voluntary applications have been made across 25 local authorities. No local authority has engaged in a full programme of completion.
Six local authorities have actively engaged with RoS on a workstream to register housing stock within research areas.
In total five local authorities have not engaged in registering publicly-owned lands in their area through RoS’ programme of land register completion.