Types of local land charges search
The local land charges search will include information about:
- the planning history of the land
- planning policies affecting the land
- developments which will directly affect the land
- local land charges that restrict the use of the land
- local land charges that will pass to any new owner of the land (such as conservation areas, tree preservation orders or listed buildings)
A local land charges search is made up of:
- Form LLC1, a search of the Local Land Charges Register, which we have a statutory duty to maintain
- Form CON29 Required Questions and CON29O Optional Questions, which requests details of information that may affect a specific property or piece of land
Form LLC1 includes information about:
- financial charges
- tree preservation orders
- renovation grants
- conservation areas
- listed buildings
- conditional planning applications
- enforcement notices
Form CON29 Required Questions includes information about:
- previous planning applications
- building regulations and certificates for works
- highways and traffic
- the environment
- public paths and byways
- the current or proposed local plan policies
Optional Form CON29O Optional Questions information includes about:
- advertisements
- mineral consultation areas
CON29 Revisions 2016 provides guidance on the updates to these questions.
You can request:
- Full Local Search (LLC1 and CON29)
- LLC1 only
- CON29 Required Questions only
- CON29 Required Questions and CON29O Optional Questions
We charge different amounts for each search that we carry out.