Local Land Charges

It is important to have a full local authority search carried out when buying
a property as it is designed to protect prospective purchasers by informing
them of, for instance, whether the highway fronting the property is public or
privately maintained, to let them know about planning permissions/conditions,
tree preservation orders or enforcement notices, which may affect the
property to be purchased.

Fees and Charges

	2011
Standard Official Search (LLC1 and CON29R	£95
Official Certificate of Search (Form LLC1 only)	£30
Enquiries of local authority (Form CON29R only) Part 1 Enquiries *	£65
Additional Parcel of Land (Each)	£50
CON29O Optional Enquiries of local authorities questions dealing with all questions	£120
Question 4 - Road Proposals by public bodies	£32
Question 5 - Public Paths of Byways	£32
Question 6 - Advertisements	£32
Question 7 - Completion Notices	£32
Question 8 - Parks and Countryside	£32
Question 9 - Pipelines	£32
Question 10 - Houses in Multiple Occupation	£32
Question 11 - Noise Abatement	£32
Question 12 - Urban Development Areas	£32
Question 13 - Enterprise Zones	£32
Question 14 - Inner Urban Improvement Areas	£32
Question 15 - Simplified Planning Zones	£32
Question 16 - Land Maintenance Notices	£32
Question 17 - Mineral Consultation Areas	£32
Question 18 - Hazardous Substance Consents	£32
Question 19 - Environmental and Pollution Notices	£32
Question 20 - Food Safety Notices	£32
Question 21 - Hedgerows Notices	£32
Question 22 - Common Land Town and Village Green	£32
*Standalone CON29R and CON29O searches attract an additional fee (Payable once per search)	£2
Personal Searches by Appointment (contact details below)	£0
Repeat Search - LLC1 and CON29R - within 3 months of original search (including if search was ordered by any firm, provided that we are sent a copy of the first page of a full search).	£45

Requests for copy documents should be made direct to the Department
concerned as the Local Land Charges Office no longer keeps copies.

Copies of S.106/52 and 38 Agreements	£10 plus 50p per sheet for 6+ pages
Copies of Tree Preservation Orders	£25

Payments

We now offer the option of taking electronic payment for searches.
Please call the department on the number at the bottom of the screen
with your credit/ debit card details to hand for fast payment of your search fees.

Cheques drawn on a firm's Account should be made payable to:-

• Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM)

The Council very much regrets that, as a result of a number of cheques being
dishonoured, all searches submitted by a firm will only be processed if
accompanied by a cheque drawn on the firm's Account.

All searches & Enquiries will be returned unless accompanied by an up to date
OS/Land Registry plan showing and naming the surrounding roads and features
(block plans and/or street plans are insufficient for land charges use).

Enquiries

Searches are not circulated in this Authority. Additional enquiries of the Local
Authority (Con29R) can be answered by the Local land Charges Department or
can be answered by the department concerned. It is therefore advised that the
particular department is contacted direct by letter enclosing a plan to which the
enquiries relate.

Personal Search Information

Requests for Documents

The Land Charges department does not hold copies of documents therefore
requests for documents should be made direct to the Department concerned and
not to Land Charges.

Good Practice Guidance

The Government has published a Good Practice Guide for local authorities and
personal searchers. The guidance sets out good practice on the conduct of a
personal search of the Local Land Charges Register and of other records held by
local authorities for inclusion in a property search. This guidance has been developed
by a Working Group comprising representatives of local government, property search
companies, home information pack providers and central government.

Contact Details:

The Local Land Charges Team has recently been incorporated into the Information
Management Team. For further information, contact the Local Land Charges Department:-

By telephone: 01628 796293
By email: land.charges@rbwm.gov.uk
By post: Local Land Charges Department, Town Hall, St Ives Road, Maidenhead SL6 1RF
(DX 6422 MAIDENHEAD 1)

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