Wigan Council Land Ownership Map from HM Land Registry

Wigan Council land parcels where the council holds registered freehold or leasehold title. The data is sourced from HM Land Registry and is updated daily. The dataset excludes land where the council has management responsibilities but not ownership, such as common land.

Use Cases

• Map public land assets based on council ownership data.
• Analyze land use patterns based on registered council property boundaries.
• Support local government transparency initiatives based on published ownership records.

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, suggesting high recency.
• Source is HM Land Registry, an authoritative national body.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

HM Land Registry

Collection Method

Obtained from HM Land Registry.

Freshness

Updated daily.

Geography

Wigan Metropolitan Borough, United Kingdom