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Local land searches

Please Note - Our service operates Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.  If you have an urgent enquiry and need to contact the service outside of these times, please email land.charges@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk.

Local land searches are usually carried out by a solicitor or licensed conveyancer on your behalf if you’re buying or selling land or property.

These searches show whether there are any legal restrictions affecting the land or property.

The information is collected from different Council departments including planning, building control, highways, environmental health and planning policy.

Types of searches

A full search usually consists of two separate parts called a LLC1 and a Con29/ Con29O.

Land Charge Register (LLC1) search

We joined the digital Local Land Charges service managed by HM Land Registry (HMLR) in October 2021 and that service now provides LLC1 search responses.   You can access HMLR searches via the new digital service through your portal account, Business Gateway and on GOV.UK.

Land Charges supplementary documents

HMLR Ref LLC-186HT (PDF File, 420kb) – Local Authority reference PF281695

HMLR Ref LLC-184YH (PDF File, 230kb) – Local Authority reference PF259473

Con29 and Con29O search

More information on how to submit a search request, including fees and payment can be found on the how to submit a local authority search page of our website.

Con29 and Con29O enquiries contain a series of standard questions covering information from various Council departments. It will include:

  • any road proposals or schemes
  • compulsory purchase orders
  • enforcement actions
  • building regulations or planning applications
  • formal/informal notices

Con29O contains a series of further, optional questions and may be submitted as stand alone or with Con29. This search covers information from various Council departments, including houses in multiple occupation, noise abatement and hazardous substance consents.

Results of searches where a fee is payable will not be delivered in any form until payment has been received.

Payments

More information on how to pay and our list of fees can be found on the how to submit a local authority search page of our website.

Turnaround times for searches

Our search turnaround time is currently approximately 10-12 working days. We are currently working closely with our external answering partners to reduce this time.

Requests under Environmental Information Regulations (EIR)

Requests for information under Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) will be dealt with as soon as possible but may take up to 20 working days.  If you wish to submit a request under EIR please email freedom@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk. 

It’s important that you include a map clearly indicating the extent of the search area you require.  Information provided under EIR is raw data and may include data concerning neighbouring land.  It is your responsibility to check the data provided and decide if it is relevant or not.

Please note, the EIR report provided does not contain the following unrefined data, Planning Applications, Building Control Applications, Conservation area information, Local Plan Policies (local development framework policies map) and Contaminated Land Public Register.

For a search of our Land Charge Register, please refer to HM Land Registry portal account, business gateway and on the HM Land Registry pages on GOV.UK