Cyient bags project from UK's HMLR to centralise, digitise local land charges across England & Wales

HYDERABAD: Engineering and digital tech solutions player Cyient on Monday said it will be supporting HM Land Registry (HMLR)'s Local Land Charges (LLC) programme that covers properties in England and Wales.
Cyient has partnered with Esri UK and Xerox to deliver this project for HMLR that safeguards land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion, enabling over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.The land register contains more than 26 million titles showing evidence of ownership for more than 87% of the landmass of England and Wales.
The LLC programme is aimed at digitising and migrating millions of separately held local land charge records from local authorities into a centralized digital register that will enable HMLR to provide a single and simple-to-use digital service for homebuyers and conveyancers, Cyient said.
Hyderabad-based Cyient will be working with Esri UK to provide a fully configured and customized version of the Esri SWEET software package, which will be used as the primary spatial capture and improvement tool for HMLR.
Xerox's Capture and Content Services, which use powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning, will automatically capture and validate information from digital and physical local land charge records, it added.
Cyient said it will own the entire process and provide a central management information platform, allowing for “single pane of glass” reporting, with the ability to drill down to prove data integrity and provenance. Cyient will provide all spatial capture and improvement services as well as textual capture, it added.
Commenting on the development, Matt Wood, geospatial sales director-EMEA, Cyient said: “Cyient's experience in successfully delivering large volume geospatial information digitizing and migration projects made us a solid fit for HMLR."
“Homebuyers and conveyancers expect easy and instant access to land records because they make financial and legal decisions based on these documents,” said Darren Cassidy, managing director for UK & Ireland and senior vice president for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Enterprise and Global Accounts Operations at Xerox.