Local land charges
If you are buying or carrying out transactions on a piece of land (or house) in Hackney, we can investigate whether there are any legal restrictions which may affect the property, and will bring all the information together in the form of a local authority search.
For a local authority search, information is collected from various departments throughout the Council, including Environmental Health, Engineers, Planning, and Building Control.
We provide information of charges held on all property within the Council's jurisdiction. The information is mainly provided for purposes of conveyancing in the business of buying, selling and re-mortgaging property.
In general terms, a charge refers to a burden on the land on which the property is situated. They are restrictive and/or financial in nature and they are passed onto successive owners. Among the various charges are:
- Planning decisions, Enforcement notices, Planning Agreements, Restrictive Covenants, Tree Preservation orders, Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings Notices, Dangerous Structure Notices, Environmental Health Notices, Light Obstruction Notices.
The information is held in a register called the Local Land Charges register and to gain access to it, an inspection of the register is required. This can be done by submitting an application in Form LLC1 and Form CON29. This type of search is called an Official Search.
Searches are often submitted by Solicitors on behalf of their clients but individuals can also submit independent applications using the same forms above. These can be obtained at a fee from solicitors offices or electronically from Oyez Straker or Shaw and Sons.
Oyez Straker:
Shaw and Sons:
It is now a requirement for each application to have an up to date ordinance survey plan/map attached to it indicating precisely the extent of the land being searched.
Search applications are in 3 parts:
- LLC1 Register
- Part 1 CON29 Supplementary Enquiries
- Part 2 CON29 Supplementary Enquiries
The most common is the combined LLC1 and Part 1 CON29 search. This is comprehensive with detailed responses to all supplementary the Part 1 CON29 enquiries. This information is only available through this type of search carried out by the Local Authority.
For Land Registry searches go to the Land Registry website.
Page updated: 14 Oct 2011
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