Land access - seeking and finding permission

[haptalaon]

You can find who owns the land by going to the Government land registry site - you click on the map and, as long as it has been registered, it will tell you who owns it. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell you who manages it which is more important. A lot of land will be shown as 'Crown Property' or similar, which doesn't help at all.

Who Owns England is an interesting project, because apparently it isn't a *requirement* to document publically who owns any given piece of land, and therefore it can require Freedom of Information requests and sniffing about. One of the aims of the project, which I agree with, is you'd expect something like this to be easy public knowledge, but making this information hard to find makes it harder for any kind of land reform or large-scale change to take place.