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Official Local Land Charge Search

Our Local Land Charge team carry out all official searches covered by the Local Land Charges Act 1975. We guarantee comprehensive replies to official LLC1 and CON29R enquiries.

The search is in two parts:

LLC1 – deals with all registerable charges, such as financial charges (registered against the property by the Local Authority), improvement grants, tree preservation orders, conditional planning consents and agreements.

CON29R – or Enquires of Local Authorities Form, deals with issues such as highways, planning history, enforcement notices, building control non -compliances, compulsory purchase orders, proposed tree preservation orders, environmental (radon gas) and informal notices under planning and highways laws not found on any register.

CON290 – (Optional Enquiries)

Personal Searches

A Personal Search is an inspection of the Local Land Charges Register in person.

From the 17th August 2010 a free of charge viewing service will be available to our customers. We require the customer to make an appointment for this service to ensure that the terminal held within our land charges section is available for use.
The EIR regulations require us to provide access to this information within 20 days of the request.

Please contact the Local Land Charges direct line 01376 557789.

LLCI Official Search

An LLCI Search is an Official Local Land Charges Search. The cost of the search is £16.00.

The LLCI form can be submitted to us via email at landcharges@braintree.gov.uk . When the email has been opened a member of the Land Charges team will contact you by telephone to take card payment.

Alternatively you can post your LLCI form together with a cheque for the sum of £16.00 and make payable to Braintree District Council and post to:-

Braintree District Council
Causeway House
Bocking End
Braintree
Essex
CM7 9HB

Refined Search Service

A Refined Search Service is a detailed printed Search Report of the Planning History and the Local Land Charges Registers at a cost of £24.00 (inc. £2.00 print out fee).

To apply for a Refined Search, please call us on 01376 557789 to make an appointment for collection and to make a card payment for £24.00.

If you require the Refined Search returned via email then the cost will be £22.00.

Common Land and Village Green Searches

To request a search, you need to complete the CON29O form. These forms are available from the Law Society Stationers or online via www.nlis.org.uk

or, alternatively, go to tm Search Choice at www.tmofficialsearchservices.co.uk

The current fee is £14.00

On receipt of your search, any queries must be made direct to NLIS: Email environmentalteamduty@essex.gov.uk  telephone 01245-506-732

Land Charges and Extent of Highways Enquiries

We are unable to respond to enquiries regarding Land Charges and Extent of Highways. These records are held at Essex Highways who now charge Braintree District Council £26.30 for any requested information.

They can be contacted at:

Land Charges
Essex Highways
E3 County Hall
Market Hall
Chelmsford
Essex CM1 1QH

DX 3322 Chelmsford

For Highway Search queries: firstname.lastname@essexhighways.org

Other types of Searches undertaken in the house buying process

Drainage Water Searches
Anglian Water maintain sewers for our area.
Please contact:

Anglian Water (Geodesys)
Tel no.01480-323-889

Land Registry Searches
Land Registry deals with ownership of property.
Please contact:

Tel no.01733-288-288
Email through their website: http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/

How to request

Official Local Land Charges Search can be requested:

Online – via tm Search Choice at www.tmofficialsearchservices.co.uk

By post – send forms LLC1 and CON29R together with a cheque for £100 plus four copies of a plan outlined in red. Your solicitor will have these forms or you can buy them from Law Stationers.

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For further information, please contact BDC Customer Service Centre at csc@braintree.gov.uk
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