Build a bonfire

Land Registry is getting ready to set light to its mound of unwanted original title deeds. Many documents are now held by the Land Registry in electronic format. Retention of the original is therefore considered to be unnecessary. Whilst the paper originals of scanned documents have been stored in the past, the Land Registry has given notice on its website of its intention to begin destroying the originals on 28 February 2009. (5 November might have been more appropriate). If you want an original back, now is the time to act.