Who Owns England

I have to love this quote from one of the articles on this site. Asked for his advice on how young entrepreneurs should succeed, the late Gerald Grosvenor once replied: “Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror.” [1] 1. https://whoownsengland.org/2016/08/17/to-the-manor-born-mapping-the-gr…

This whole blog is interesting, glad to have been introduced to it. As an American, I love being reminded how young everything about us is. See, for example, the entry about the Duchy of Cornwall [0]: "The Duchy was created in 1337 by Edward III, as a personal endowment for his son, the Black Prince. Ever since, its lands and revenues have belonged to the male heir to the throne – in recent times, Charles, Prince of Wales." I acknowledge (and sympathize with) the author's interest in greater transparency, but I also have an appreciation for institutions that survive in this way, anachronistic and antiquated though it may be. https://whoownsengland.org/2017/03/15/what-land-does-the-duchy-of-corn…

This article is on the BBC. Iniquitous salaries are not ideal but they are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is wealthy people who own land, do no work and demand rent from others for the right to exist. https://whoownsengland.org/ Paying some people a bit more won't fix the UK. Reporting people to the state for tax evasion isn't the issue. Land is hardly taxed in the UK. We cannot just look at what is legal vs illegal. The state is setup to funnel money to the establishment. We must look beyond this to what is moral and what is immoral. Is it subjective? Sometimes. In Kensington council tax is 1K per anum on a 2MM house which may be empty, paying the owner 100K on a 5% increase in land prices per anum whilst residents burn to death for the sake of a sprinkler system. Read the Grenfell one if you want to be particularly sickened and to see how the UK really works. The BBC won't touch this. edit: to the guy below asking about downvotes, here's what happens on HN. Any time you mention landlords they downvote and someone flags the post and then you get, even though I've submitted 4 posts today "you're submitting too fast". It looks like free speech, but it's not. This happens every single time.

It's also because an exception to inheritance tax that covers farm land and forests. Rich people have been buying up both (Dyson owns several counties now). https://www.gov.uk/guidance/woodland-owners-tax-guidance https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoovering-up-…

Not entirely the same but related: https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-who-own-ha…

The thirty people who own half of Berkshire here on Airstrip One. https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-who-own-ha… Loads of sychophants in that list. Airstrip One has been invaded by so many countries over many hundreds of years that those who have defeated the our poor armies have then, without any authority, given "OUR" lands to their friends, lords, ladies, and any sychophantic mendicants. These lands are not their lands! All these lands were stolen from the common people. Its called Berkshire for a reason and where the cockney rhyming "Berkshire" comes from I never gave my permission to give away my land.

Does he talk about the design of the legal structure for his tax avoidance vehicle that holds the land he has bought up in the UK? lol https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoovering-up-… "By July 2017, Farmers Weekly was reporting that Dyson’s empire had grown to 13,355 hectares, or 33,000 acres."

My apologies - bad memory https://whoownsengland.org/2019/01/11/the-holes-in-the-map-englands-un…

London (and to some extent, the broader UK) could do with a similar restriction - Private Eye has done several deep dives into just how much[1] of London/the country is owned by secretive / tax-haven'd corporations. 1. "A lot". cf https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/two-years-still-dark-about-86000… https://whoownsengland.org/2017/11/14/the-companies-corporate-bodies-w… etc.etc.

Side note: James Dyson now owns more farmland than anyone else in UK. https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoovering-up-… Interesting businessman

This blog is awesome. Some of the entries are eye opening and scary - like this one https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-who-own-ha… Is there anything like this for the U.S? It is crazy to see such huge amounts of land owned by a few individuals/companies.

The church owns a lot, but actually divested itself of quite a lot of its property portfolio in the 80s and 90s. Linked is some related stats: https://whoownsengland.org/2017/01/01/who-owns-england-what-we-know-so… - CofE does not appear there either.

The site actually has an entire Blog Post about the Duchy of Cornwall https://whoownsengland.org/2017/03/15/what-land-does-the-duchy-of-corn… Basically the answer is that the Duchy pretends that it is simply a private person (Charles Windsor) and so it shouldn't be subject to any more prying into its affairs than would be the case for you or me. This is sufficiently arguable that it doesn't fear ridicule.

"Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets." This seems really strange to me. Why should this be the case? Some interesting information at their blog https://whoownsengland.org/2017/01/01/who-owns-england-what-we-know-so… https://whoownsengland.org/2016/11/10/why-we-must-open-up-the-land-reg…