Local Land Charges Search

What is a Local Land Charges Search?

It checks the relevant register for recorded obligations and restrictions that may affect how land or property can be used. These matters may not be obvious from viewing the property or its Title Register.

A search can help you find relevant information before making decisions about buying, owning or developing land.

What could the search reveal?

Depending on the entries recorded for the land and whether the relevant authority’s register is available through the service, results may include:

• Planning conditions — Conditions attached to some planning permissions.
• Tree Preservation Orders — Registered protections affecting trees.
• Conservation areas — Designations with additional planning controls.
• Listed building entries — Relevant registered building designations.
• Planning and enforcement notices — Certain notices recorded as local land charges.
• Other registered entries — Restrictions or obligations recorded against the land.

Where available, an entry can include its registration date and the authority responsible for it.

Search the specific land you mean

Not every search is for a home with a postcode. Find a location by postcode or place, zoom in on the land and outline one area, including extra land outside a property’s usual boundary. You can edit, undo or clear the outline, then describe the land to help identify it in the search.

Each search is for one area. If you need a separate parcel searched, it will need a separate order when ordering becomes available.

The outline identifies the area requested for searching. It does not determine ownership or establish a legal boundary.

Who may find this search useful?

• Property buyers checking for registered charges before a purchase.
• Land buyers and developers searching a defined parcel, including land without a postal address.
• Property owners checking recorded obligations or restrictions affecting land they own.
• Investors and property professionals gathering official search information for due diligence.

Planned search result

When online ordering is available, the planned service will provide a digital Local Land Charges search certificate, relevant registered charges found, and the selected area on a map. Registration and authority details are included where available.

How the service will work

1. Select one area on the map.
2. Describe the land and provide your contact details.
3. Review the selected area and information.
4. When ordering is available, submit the search and receive the result digitally.

The current preview covers the first three steps only. It does not place an order or take payment.

Important information

A Local Land Charges Search covers registered local land charges for the identified area where the relevant authority’s register is available through the service. It is not a full Local Authority Search and does not include all CON29 enquiries, planning applications, building control records or proposed road schemes.

If you need more information about a charge, you may need to contact the relevant originating authority.

This service is provided by Online Administration Services Ltd, trading as UK Land Register. We are an independent service provider and are not HM Land Registry.