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Local land charges, drainage enquiries and Land Registry
- Local land charges (property searches)
including Access and Charging Arrangements for Property Information - Drainage enquiries
- Land Registry
- Other links
Local land charges (property searches)
Adur Council runs the local land charges register to give people certain local information they need when buying homes and other land or property. A local land charge search can tell you of any obligations or restrictions that are enforceable against the property. A search does not provide details of ownership of the property or land this information is available from Land Registry (see below).
You can find out more by contacting the Local Land Charges Team.
The cost of local land searches is reviewed annually and new charges come into effect at the beginning of April each year.
The local land charges fees from 1st April 2009 until 31st March 2010 :
- LLC1 only Search (By DX or Post) £12.00
- LLC1 only (Electronic) £10.00
- Basic Search (LLC1 + CON29R Enquiries) (By DX or Post) £133.00
- Basic Search (LLC1 + CON29R Enquiries) (Electronic) £131.00
- CON29O Enquiries (Optional) £7.00 each
- Part III Enquiries (Additional) £10.00 each
- Additional Parcel £6.00 each
- Additional Parcel for Personal Search or LLCI only £1.00 each
- Personal Search £11.00
Please note :
- For a basic search the fee includes the sum of £15.00 payable to West Sussex County Council as Highways Department.
- Where a CON29O Form is submitted separately, i.e. not as part of a full basic search, this will incur an additional one off fee of £12.84. The cost of each Optional Enquiry on the form remains the same at £7 each. Should Optional (Highway) Enquiries Nos. 4, 5 and 22 be requested, an additional fee of £15, on top of the above fees will be required.
- If you are unsure of how parcels of land are calculated, please do not hesitate to contact the Local Land Charges Section.
- Please make cheques payable to Adur District Council.
- Client cheques will be accepted, however, these need to be indemnified by the submitter of the search request.
- See also Access and Charging Arrangements for Property Information below
Submitting a search
We are able to process Postal, DX and NLIS and Personal Searches.
For Postal and DX searches, a completed LLC1 request and CON29 must be submitted including a plan of the property to be searched and the correct fee as detailed above.
For NLIS (Electronic Searches) please contact one of the relevant Channel providers as follows :
- SearchFlow (www.searchflow.co.uk)
- SearchFlow : Transaction on-line (www.transaction-online.co.uk)
- TM Search (www.tmproperty.co.uk)
and for more information on electronic searches please contact NLIS on :
- National Land Information Service (www.nlis.org.uk)
We are currently working on Level 2 of the NLIS hub and can receive searches and payment electronically and in most cases provide an electronic response.
Personal searches
Personal Searches can be pre-arranged by giving 24 hours notice (subject to staff availability) : Monday to Friday 10:00am - 12:00 noon, or 2:00pm - 4:00pm.
A Personal Search is an inspection of the Local Land Charges Register, it can be arranged as above and be carried out by anyone on payment of the relevant fee. Please note that a Personal Search does not provide all the information given in a full (LLC1 & CON29) search.
We aim to have completed searched returned within 10 days of receipt to follow Government guidelines, our current average turn around time is 5 working days.
Access and Charging Arrangements for Property Information
Statutory and Public Registers containing Planning and Building Control, and Environmental Health information can be viewed through the use of the Information Computers in the self service zone at the Civic Centre.
Other Planning and Building Control or Environmental Health information which forms part of the Land Charge Search CON29 Enquiry Form can be obtained direct from the Planning and Building Control or Environmental Health Services.
For details of access and charges, where applicable, for the obtaining of raw property information, please see the :
- Access and Charging Arrangements for Property Information document (.PDF 18kb)
- Property search form - Planning and Building Regulations data (.PDF 28kb)
- Property search form - Environmental Health data (.PDF 20kb)
See also :
Drainage enquiries
All drainage enquiries should be directed to :
- Southern Water
Southern House
Capstone Road
Chatham
Kent
ME5 7QA
Tel : 0845 272 0845
DX400450 Chatham 5
Minicom text telephone : 0845 275 0845
Southern Water's website (www.southernwater.co.uk)
or
Southern Water's website : Property searches - advice for homebuyers (https://www.southernwater.co.uk/BusinessCustomers/propertySearches/default.asp)
or
Southern Water's website : Main contact details webpage (www.southernwater.co.uk/resources/contactUs/default.asp)
See also on our website :
Land Registry
Enquiries relating to Land Registry (the Government Department responsible for registering land and property) who hold records on the title and ownership or interest in land in England an Wales should be referred to :
- Portsmouth District Land Registry
St Andrew's Court
St Michael's Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2JH
DX No: 83550 Portsmouth (2)
Tel : (023) 9276 8888
Fax : (023) 9276 8768 : GTN : 1454
or visit the Land Registry website (www1.landregistry.gov.uk)
You can also find out on-line who owns a particular property and how much was paid for it by using the new Land Registry on-line service. The site will also allow you to see a property's boundaries and any restrictions put on its use. The site makes a small charge for this service (£2 in Jan 2005) which is payable on-line. For more information please refer to the
- Land Registry on-line website (www.landregisteronline.gov.uk)
Other Links
For highway, footpath and common search :
- West Sussex County Council
County Hall
West Street
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1RQ
Tel : (01243) 777100
West Sussex County Council website (www.westsussex.gov.uk)
