E-Service Delivery
Land Registry Direct
Land Registry Direct, allows a range of services to be carried out from PCs
in customers' own offices within a secure extranet.
Customers can:
- view online more than 18 million computerised land registers and title
plans
- carry out real-time Official Searches
- request office copies
- lodge simple non-dispositionary dealings (facility added February 2002).
Many more customers are using the service. There are now more than 4,000
account holders and 16,000 individual user IDs. In April 2002:
- 234,114 register views were made (up from 148,186 in April 2001)
- 103,405 electronic notifications of discharge were lodged (up from 52,449
in April 2001).
Fee income for April 2002 alone was £760,000 (almost a 40% increase over
April 2001).
We plan to introduce enhancements during 2002-2003, including facilities to:
- view any documents referred to on the register
- acquire real-time Land Charges search results online (much requested).
Longer term, we aim to provide online access to the computerised Index Map
that is due to be implemented in 2003/2004.
The pace of growth brought considerable pressure upon the service. Major
re-engineering of the whole Land Registry Direct IT infrastructure was
undertaken in December 2001 to resolve problems, allow for the expected increase
in take-up of the service and permit future service expansion.
http://www.landregistrydirect.gov.uk
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