The Land Charges Officers keep and update information affecting land and property within the Eden District Council area, including the Lake District National Park.
What is a Local Authority Search?
A search is carried out by a solicitor on behalf of people buying land or property and forms part of the conveyancing process. The required questions give the potential buyer details of any restrictions or legal obligations, enforceable against successive owners by the local authority or other government departments.
Official Local Land Charges Search
The Local Land Charges section carries out all official searches covered by the Local Land Charges Act 1975, guaranteeing comprehensive replies to the official LLC1 and CON29 enquiries.
The Law Society, which regulates solicitors, encourages the use of official searches and considers that alternative personal searches of the statutory register, disclosing only limited information, should only be undertaken with the approval of the client when time does not permit official searches. You are advised to confirm with your solicitor that an official search has been undertaken and to inspect the Certificate of Official Search.
The search will be in two parts:
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LLC1 - the Official Certificate of Search. This deals with all the registrable charges, for example financial charges (registered against the property by the local authority), improvement grants, tree preservation orders, conditional planning consents and agreements.
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CON29 Required Enquiries of the Local Authority. These enquiries relate to various issues including planning, building regulations, environmental health and highway matters.
Much of the information given by the local authority in reply to these enquiries is not yet available to a personal searcher and cannot be obtained from any other source.
Submitting a Local Authority Search
The following should be submitted with a Local Authority Search request:
- Form LLC1 in duplicate
- Form CON29 in duplicate
- A plan in duplicate with the search area outlined in red (The plan should be up-to-date, at a scale of 1:2500 and include adjacent highways)
- Cheque made payable to Eden District Council for the correct fee
Submitting a Local Authority Search electronically
The Council is currently connected to the National Land Information Service (NLIS) at Level 2. This means search requests can be submitted electronically using one of the licensed NLIS channels. Search replies are also returned electronically.
You can find out more about NLIS on their website www.nlis.org.uk or you can contact any of the licensed channels listed below:
Drainage Enquiries
All drainage enquiries should be sent to:
Commons Registration Searches
Please request response to CON29O question 22. This should be submitted to Eden District Council and the fee is £14 if requested with LLC1 or CON29R and £16 if requested without LLC1 and CON29R.
Our Commitment to You
We aim to return all standard searches within 5 working days and standard searches where the expedited fee has been paid within 2 working days.
A standard search is one that does not require a reply to any CON29 Part 2 enquiries.
For further information:
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Contact: Land Charges, Mansion House, Penrith CA11 7YG
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Email: land.charges@eden.gov.uk
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Telephone: 01768 817817
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Fax: 01768 890732
