Local land charges
A local land charge provides prospective purchasers with information about the property such as conservation areas, tree preservation orders, conditional planning permissions, financial charges, miscellaneous, listed buildings and light obstruction notices.
Local land charge searches
Following HMRC’s decision that the non-statutory CON29R and CON29O products submitted to the Local Authority are considered to be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20% effective from 1 April 2017, Fee increases have been made for these elements:
Please note: The fee for the Statutory LLC1 Official Certificate of Search is unaffected by this change and remains at £23.50
For a full list, please use the Search fees and charges page.
Planning History on Land Charges Official Searches
Please note that has from 31 July 2017, this local authority will be providing planning application history back to 1 January 1977 on land charges official searches as part of the Con 29 replies.
If you wish to see if there are any applications prior to 1 January 1977, then please check yourself by using the Address Search on the following link – Planning Application Search