It’s going to be easier to make land-related decisions thanks to a new partnership.
Service New Brunswick is partnering with the Association of New Brunswick Land Surveyors and developed a fully integrated information system to provide a more accurate and up-to-date mapping of property.
“This is an important partnership,” said Service New Brunswick Minister Mary Wilson.
“When you consider the importance of land rights to supporting our economy, it is easy to see that better property mapping and improvements to the land surveyors’ plan database benefits all New Brunswickers.”
Because registration of survey plans is largely voluntary, only an average of 69 per cent tend to be registered.
Survey plans are the primary source of information in the digital mapping of land used by industry professionals, residents and the government in making land-related decisions.
Our newsroom reached out to the provincial government to ask if Indigenous bands would be included in the mapping and land-related decisions.
“The digital property mapping is a graphical representation of all parcels of land in New Brunswick but does not include federally administered lands such as national parks or historic sites, military bases, and first nations reserves,” Joey Chessie, Director of Surveys at SNB said.
“These lands are the domain of the federal government and are subject to a separate registry and cadastre maintained by the federal government. “
