Thursday, Oct 22, 2009
Not Enough To Do These Days
BBC: Job cuts feared at Land Registry
Only 5,500 people needed to register property sales next year
Posted by ontheotherhand @ 12:05 PM (1196 views) Add Comment
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1. tyrellcorporation said...
Readying for privatisation. GBs big car boot sale of bloated assets - any takers? no thought not.
2. brickormortis said...
is that one for each property sold outside London?
3. str 2007 said...
5500 people to register 80,000 sales per month.
80,000 / 20 working days per month = 4000 per day to register. 40100 / 5500 people = 0.7 each per day ???
Less than 1 per day each.
I confess I don't know what's involved in registering a property at land registry.
I find it hard to believe 1 person can't do 10 per day, and if they can't is it an overly complicated system ?
Hey Lord Krusty there could be some further savings here me thinks. Best let Dave know at the next family gathering.
4. str 2007 said...
Where did that 1 come from, should have been 4000/5500 - sorry.
5. timmy t said...
str - and when did we last see 80,000 sales in a month - it's been a while now....
And they don't want to go closing an office in Kent - the Wilsons will keep that office busy for a long time - if they ever manage to sell anything!
6. mark wadsworth said...
@ STR, nice maths. Heck knows why they'd privatise HMLR, we'll need them to administer land value tax, so that's an extra 50 to 100 jobs. Enabling us to sack tens of thousands of others involved in administering Council Tax, Inheritance Tax, TV licence fee and so on.
7. str 2007 said...
timmy t
I was giving them the benefit of the doubt with a rough average over the last 5 years (I think peak was about 120k per month).
Mark
Some serious savings then with LVT.
8. crunchy said...
Brown shoots sprout from Land Registry.
9. icarus said...
str - you need to add in all those in sales & marketing, advertising, PR, customer relations, PR, race relations and global warming compliance, human resources, privatisation feasibility evaluation etc.
10. str 2007 said...
Icarus
Of course silly me,
LOL
I take you were being ironic/sarcastic ;-)
11. str 2007 said...
Actually Icarus
Is an overly manned Health & Safety Executive costing Nurses Jobs ?
A point worth considering, how many Nurses get made redundant for each Health & Safety Course attended.
I blame High Visibilty Vests myself.
12. ontheotherhand said...
Perhaps the sacked 1000 can find work flogging HIPs. Apparently it employs over 10,000 people http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/future-of-the-hip-mike-ockenden-ahipp-interview-123/ So the nice government has thought this through - keep the stamp duty, sack the employees who were the original excuse for said stamp duty in days gone by, and create non-jobs for them in the private sector.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549325/Get-HIP-quick-no-experience-required.html
While a HIP is expected to cost between £400 to £650, with an EPC for about £200, Mr Callaghan pointed out that assessors can effectively charge whatever they like for their services.
"Jobs should take no more than 45 minutes and if you can do eight or nine a day, you'll be the Formula 1 racing cars of the business and you'll really be motoring,"
13. Johno said...
Check out this link to the Communities.gov website - it shows the number of transactions since 2005.
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/table530.xls
Compare this year to 2007 - that explains why they can cut 1500 staff. Actually, based on that table they could probably cut a few more!
14. nickb said...
Global warming compliance? Chance would be a fine thing. Not that Land Registry have a lot to do with that though...
15. iguana said...
Heard it before!
During the idiot boom of the late eighties the Land Registry ran out of space for the mountains of paper being generated and so took over any space that they could find. They also needed more staff, not only for the processing, but also to run around retrieving paper from remote stores. When the housing market ran out of idiots the stores and the staff were 'shed'.
Their system is a bit more streamlined now, much of it is computer based so there was not the need for remote warehouses of paper, but they still needed more staff for the processing. Seems that now they do not see any green shoots on the horizon.
Conclusions?