Cyient bags HMLR's digitisation contract

Cyient, a global engineering and digital technology solutions company has been selected by HM (Her Majesty) Land Registry (HMLR) a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom to support its Local Land Charges (LLC) Programme involving digitisation and migration of millions of separately held local land charge records from local authorities into a centralised digital register.

With this, HMLR will have a single and simple-to-use digital service for homebuyers and conveyancers. HM Land Registry 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 per cent of the landmass of England and Wales.

Cyient has partnered with Esri UK and Xerox to deliver this project. The partnership brings a wealth of proven and relevant experience of direct and tangible benefits to the LLC program.

Mark Kelso, Programme Director, Local Land Charges, HM Land Registry said: "We are excited to be working in partnership with Cyient to deliver the new national digital LLC Service for England and Wales."

Cyient will work 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.

"We are delighted to have been selected by HMLR to support the LLC Programme. Cyient's experience in successfully delivering large volume geospatial information digitising and migration projects made us a solid fit for HMLR," said Matt Wood, Geospatial Sales Director, EMEA, Cyient.