NationStates Jolt Archive


Land registration Act--constructive criticism

Machiaevellia
12-08-2005, 10:59
Having proposed the implementation of the below proposal I would like to encourage the debate and constructive criticism of it.

Description: A proposition to enforce the registration of all land use. In order to accelerate urban development, maintain reasonable housing levels and prices and curb the domination of land masses by a landed gentry elite we propose an enforced registration of the use of all land within UN borders. By imposing a sensible level of tax on land which is being withheld by developers to raise prices, abolishing the right to register sprawling estates as 'wasteland' in order to avoid tax and garner subsidies for the landowners and implementing the protection of wetlands, green belt and endangered habitats via registration and minimum levels of upkeep we hope to encourage growth whilst also preserving natural beauty and engendering a more evenly distributed share of land ownership.
Enn
12-08-2005, 11:58
I can foresee problems with nations that do not have the same concept of land ownership as occurs in western civilisation. This happens both in some cultures (Australian Aborigines for example) and also political ideologies (in pure communism, the land is owned by the state, not by individuals).
Venerable libertarians
12-08-2005, 12:22
Is land registration not just a governmental mechanism to keep track of where the land is and who owns it?

This is obviously an National Concern and not a concern of the UN.
Texan Hotrodders
13-08-2005, 11:25
This is obviously an National Concern and not a concern of the UN.

I tend to agree very much with this comment.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones
Yeldan UN Mission
13-08-2005, 19:06
I tend to agree very much with this comment.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones
I agree with it as well. And shouldn't this be Environmental rather than Social Justice?
Barad-Du
13-08-2005, 23:12
"A proposition to enforce the registration of all land use. In order to accelerate urban development, maintain reasonable housing levels and prices and curb the domination of land masses by a landed gentry elite we propose an enforced registration of the use of all land within UN borders."

Are you suggesting that all land be registered under the UN? Or registered by the individual nations themselves. I'm assuming it's the latter (because the former doesn't really make much sense anyways), but just the same, you might want to clarify that in the draft.
Prime Minister of Barad-Du