[Talk-GB] Misaligned Cadastral Parcels in OSMUK layer?

[Mark Goodge]

On 14/12/2021 10:04, Russ Garrett via Talk-GB wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 09:33, Timothy Noname <hervbeof at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure I've seen large scale redevelopments of old council
>> estates combine land parcels so they can be split up again. The
>> council estates were subject to right to buy purchases over the
>> years, so had many parcels of land which were then compulsory
>> purchased and the entire estate was knocked down and replaced with
>> twice the number of matchbox houses. It would be chaos if they
>> never allowed this parcels to be combined, the estate would look
>> like shattered glass, but all I can see now is neat parcels around
>> the new houses.
> 
> It is possible to merge titles at the land registry, at their 
> discretion, but I suspect many freeholders don't bother doing this 
> until they need to sell the property.

In England and Wales, Titles are not the same as INSPIRE parcels. A 
single title can comprise multiple parcels. You can't tell, solely by 
looking at the INSPIRE data, whether adjacent parcels are part of the 
same title or not.

When overlaid onto a map, there are cases where it is fairly clear. For 
example, if each individual house in a street is an individual parcel, 
then it's likely that each parcel is also an individual title. But in 
other cases, particularly expanses of open ground such as parks or 
fields, or linear expanses such as highways, a single title will almost 
certainly comprise multiple parcels so you can't easily tell which 
parcel boundaries also represent title boundaries.

Mark