TAMWORTH legal experts and surveyors traveled to Sydney on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to protest against the sale of part of the NSW Land Titles registry.
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Following representations to local members of parliament, local representatives from the industry joined their colleagues at a protest outside NSW Parliament House in Macquarie St.
Members of the legal fraternity, along with local surveyors and engineers, left the city at the crack of dawn and were joined by public sector employees in a show of force against the sell-off.
Tuesday’s action follows the announcement by the NSW Government to lease the titling and registry functions of Land and Property Information (LPI) for 35 years to garner $2 billion for infrastructure.
Having earlier raised concerns that the integrity of the “world class system” was at stake, senior industry officials had approached regional state MPs Kevin Anderson and Adam Marshall to raise their concerns.
Tamworth solicitor Patrick O’Halloran said about eight representatives were there to “hold up the flag for Tamworth” at the rally, many of them dealt with the Land Titles Registry on a daily basis.
The group had also hoped to meet with premier Gladys Berejiklian to discuss the issue.
“It is the central register for land ownership and the official government guarantee for security of title to all property transactions, on that basis alone, it should not be sold,” Mr O’Halloran told The Leader.
