Local Land Charges Search

Local Land Charges protect the financial and legal interest of prospective purchasers of land and property, by providing information on land and property and giving access to the Local Land Charges Register.

Solicitors, conveyancers and private search companies use the service on behalf of clients but any member of the public could use it if they submitted the correct forms.  The official forms are not provided by the local authority but can be obtained from law stationers.

Official Forms LLC1 and Con29(R) are submitted.  These are then sent electronically to various Council departments, the replies collated by Local Land Charges and returned.

The customer can help by providing the correct address and an up to date ordnance survey plan showing the exact boundaries of the property to be searched against.

The service is governed by the Local Land Charges Act, 1975 and the Local Land Charges Rules, 1977.

However, the Local Land Charges Register refers to numerous other acts such as the Town and Country Planning Act, Highways Act and Building Acts to name but a few.

We will provide an accurate and comprehensive reply to 90% of local searches within 5 working days and the remainder within 10 working days.

Electronic searches can be submitted through NLIS out of normal office hours.

The Local Land Charges Register is broken down into the following parts:-

Part 1 - General Financial Charges
Part 2 - Specific Financial Charges
Part 3 - Planning Charges
Part 4 - Miscellaneous Charges
Part 5 - Fenland Ways Maintenance Charges
Part 6 - Land Compensation Charges
Part 7 - New Towns Charges
Part 8 - Civil Aviation Charges
Part 9 - Opencast Coal Charges
Part 10 - Listed Building Charges
Part 11 - Light Obstruction Notices
Part 12 - Drainage Scheme Charges

The Official Local Authority search is made up of two forms.

Form LLC1	This information is retrieved from the Local Land Charges Register. The Local Authority has a statutory duty to reply to any request submitted.
Form Con29	This is a supplemental contractual enquiry form. Replies are provided by Planning, Building Control, Transportation and Environmental Health and Strategic Housing.
Form Con29(R)	Previously Part I - of the Con29 contains standard enquiries which must always be answered when this Form is submitted.
Form Con29(O)	Previously Part II - Optional Enquiries - These are raised depending on the nature of the transaction.
	Part III - Additional Enquiries - These are no longer answered as part of the search process.  Please contact Local Land Charges who will inform you where to direct your enquiry.

Some of the information on this form can be gained by inspecting other statutory registers, such as the Planning Register or the Enforcement and Stop Notices Register.

Con29 contains many 'warning' questions and the responses require information that has only recently been approved by Cabinet. Some of the information will eventually be entered in the Local Land Charges Register although much of the information is not maintained on statutory registers available for public inspection.  Examples of these are, proposed road schemes within a certain distance; compulsory purchase orders (at the initial stages); formal or informal notices requiring work to be carried out which if not done could result in prosecution; and proposed enforcement action, planning contravention or breach of condition notices.

The Local Authority is no longer responsible for replying to the drainage enquiries as part of the Con29.

Please contact:-

SAFE-MOVE
PO Box 99
Bradford
BD3 7YB
Location Map of Safe-Move

Telephone: 0800 1385385.

Land Ownership

The Local Land Charges Service does not hold any details of land and property ownership.  However, if you believe the land may be owned by BMBC please contact Asset Management on 01226 774600.

If the land could be owned by anyone other than BMBC please contact Land Registry Nottingham on 0115 9065353.

National Land Information Service

Local Land Charges was one of the first services within BMBC to implement e-government as we provide the official local search service on-line to solicitors through the National Land Information Service.  Further details about this, including fees for searches submitted electronically, are available from the following channel provider:

MDA SearchFlow	Tel: 0870 7877625 helpdesk@searchflow.co.uk

A Local Land Charge is a restriction or prohibition on land, either to secure the payment of a sum of money or to limit the use to which the land may be put.

The most important factor is that the charge must be binding on successive owners or occupiers of the land.

Charges/fees are as follows:-

Full Search £80.00 (LLC1 and Con29(R)
Con29(O) each enquiry (Previously Part II Optional Enquiry) £8.00
Additional Property/Parcel of Land £5.00
Copy Documents £29.38

Payment can be made by cheque or cash for hardcopy searches at present.  If a search is submitted electronically through NLIS then payment is made via BACS.  Customers taking advantage of the newly introduced email service will be invoiced monthly in arrears.

You can contact the Local Land Charges Office at:-

Local Land Charges
Town Hall
Church Street
Barnsley
S70 2TA

Tel:   01226 773054
Fax:  01226 773097

Email: Local Land Charges

Opening hours are 9 am - 3 pm Monday to Friday.

The web sites listed below offer useful information.

• National Land Information Service
• MDA SearchFlow  
• Drainage and Water Searches

Last modified on 24/2/2010