Local land charges search

We have a target time of 10 working days for the processing of all searches.

Local Land Charges

When you purchase a property or a plot of land in the borough of Rochdale, your solicitor will make a search application to our Local Land Charges Section in the Legal and Democratic Team. The search will disclose any information held by the Council on that particular property or plot of land.

The Local Land Charges Section maintains a Local Land Charges Register, which is updated regularly. The register holds details of any charges on properties and plots of land in the borough and these are revealed on search requests.

Examples of the information held on the Register are details of Planning Permissions, Smoke Control Orders, Financial Charges, Tree Preservation Orders, and Improvement Grants.

There are four searches open to applicants:

• LLC1 Form only
• LLC1 and Con29 Forms
• Personal Search
• Common Land Search (Form CR1)

The vast majority of Solicitors will opt for a full official search (LLC1 and Con29) prior to completing any purchase of a property.

The forms are available on the Land Registry website below.

Forms at the Land Registry

Submission of Searches – LLC1 and Con29

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

• Fully completed forms
• Up to date site or location plans
• It is essential that site or location plans show 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 made payable to Rochdale Borough Council
• The correct fee (see below)

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