Cadastral Parcels: Indicative Land Ownership Polygons for Scotland

Registers of Scotland maintains this geospatial dataset of cadastral parcels to comply with the INSPIRE Directive. It contains polygon shapes showing the position and indicative extent of surface ownership for each registered property in Scotland, each linked to a Land Register title via a unique `inspire id`. The dataset is a subset of the Cadastral Map and serves as a foundational layer for land and property information.

Use Cases

• [Visualizing property extents] based on [ownership polygons at ground level]
• [Linking spatial data to legal titles] based on [unique inspire id relating to a registered title]
• [Supporting land-use planning] based on [cadastral parcel location data]
• [Providing a base layer for geographic viewers] based on [polygon shapes of property ownership]

Strengths

• [Compliance with a major EU directive] citing [production to comply with the INSPIRE Directive]
• [Direct linkage to authoritative legal records] citing [each parcel's inspire id relates to a registered title on Scotland’s Land Register]
• [Cross-platform presence] citing [availability on multiple government data portals]

Limitations

• [Metadata completeness is low] citing [unknown column names, row counts, and license information across all sources]
• [Data is indicative only] citing [the extent of rights and land within a title cannot be established from the cadastral parcel]
• [Freshness is uncertain] citing [conflicting last updated timestamps, with one source showing a future date of 2026-05-28]

Provenance

Source

Registers of Scotland

Collection Method

Maintained and produced as a subset of the Cadastral Map.

Freshness

2026-05-28 17:08:08.755646

Geography

Scotland