Local land charges search

When you buy a property or a plot of land in the borough, your solicitor can apply to us to make a search. Alternatively, they can use a Personal Search Agent to do this.

The search will disclose any information we hold on that particular property or plot of land.

We maintain a Local Land Charges Register, which we update regularly. The register holds details of any charges on properties and plots of land in the borough.

The register holds details of things like:

• Planning Permissions
• Smoke Control Orders
• Financial Charges
• Tree Preservation Orders
• Improvement Grants

There are four searches open to applicants:

• LLC1 Form
• Con29 Form
• Personal Search
• Common Land Search

Fees

In addition to the above prices each question that forms part of a CON29 has a individual price, for details of the prices and information from where the information is available see attached schedule.

Local Land Charges fees (91kb pdf file)

Making a search

LLC1 and CON29 Searches

To ensure that searches can be dealt with promptly, we require the following:

• Fully completed forms
• Up to date site or location plans showing surrounding roads and properties
• The address or DX to which the search is to be returned is printed clearly on all forms (DX is a document exchange service which guarantees next day business mail services, delivering letters and packets every working day throughout the UK)
• An accurate full postal address of the property to be searched against
• A cheque for the correct fee made payable to Rochdale Borough Council

Personal Search Companies

There are two alternatives covering Personal Search Company's requirements.

Option 1

When you carry out a Personal Search in Land Charges, you can ask additional questions on the Swiftsearch system. The answers will normally be emailed to you within 2 working days and emailed back. There is a fee of £6.75 for this service

Option 2

Submit an LLC1 request form (£14.00), and indicate any additional information you may require, with the appropriate fee. As well as the fees on the schedule attached, there is an additional fee of £6.75 for us managing the process. The normal turnaround time is 2 working days and emailed back from the time we get the fee.

Details of the fees and contact details for additional information are given in the Local Land Charges fees document.

Local Land Charges fees (91kb pdf file)

Local Land Charges search

Phone us at least the day before on 01706 924825 to make an appointment. Appointment times are:

• 9.30am
• 10am
• 10.30am
• 11am
• 2pm

You can make upto 4 searches during an appointment. Information is held on a computer system. Personal search companies can access the system themselves. Your company will be given initial help from the local Land Charges Officer.

Due to internal changes in the Planning & Regulation Service, they will be offering a morning service only (9.30-12.30).  Therefore the 2pm slot will not be able to access Planning at Telegraph House.

Regulation 9 Statement

By law, we have to give reasonable advice and assistance to an applicant or prospective applicant, at a reasonable price. This information provides the basis on which we fix the fee for a CON29 search under Regulation 9 of Section 165(7) of the Housing Act 2004.

The following estimates of costs and search volumes have been used to calculate the Land Charges fees for the Financial Year 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011

Estimated income from Land Charges fees for 2010/2011 Financial Year is £168,100

Searching for planning applications

Information about planning applications since 1979 is available on this website or from Telegraph House, Baillie Street, Rochdale.

Opening Times - 9.30am - 12.30pm

• Search for planning applications

Building Regulations approvals,
Completion certificates, 
Competent Person Self-Certification Scheme

You can ask for a search for Building Regulations approvals, completion certificates, and Competent Person Self-Certification Scheme certificates by writing to or emailing our Building Control team, or as part of a Land Charges search.

The information provided will be from after April 2002. If you need information from before April 2002, there may be a charge depending on how much searching is needed.

• Building Control

Adopted roads

There is a list of adopted streets available on Floor 2 of the Municipal Offices, Rochdale. You can inspect the list there.

  
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