Land Charges Register

Land Charges searches are carried out when buying land or property, usually by a solicitor or licensed conveyancer.

We require the following completed documents to process your search:

• up-to-date plan for search
• completed LLC1, CON29 and CON290 forms (the law society holds the copyright to the form, which can be obtained from authorised suppliers)

Fees

Search type	Fees
Requisition LLC1 only	£37.00
Standard enquiries CON29 only	£97.50 + VAT = £117.00
LLC1 & CON29	£154.00
CON290 Q4 – 21	£12.00 + VAT = £14.40 each
CON29O Q22	£14.00 + VAT = £16.80
CON29O Admin fee (if requesting CON29O questions only with no LLC1 and CON29)	£15.00
Additional parcel fee	LLC1 – £5.00 CON29 – £15.00 + VAT = £18.00
Personal search	£4.00
Copy documents (S38/278, S106 Agreements, TPO’s etc)	£29.00 each
Light Obstruction Notice	£67.00

You must pay for searches at the time of ordering – we cannot carry out a search until the appropriate fee has been paid.

Ordering

Complete your forms and submit your payment online.

We will give you your search results within 15 working days of receiving your request and fee.

CON29R fees

Copy documents

You can request the following documents from Land Charges using the online local land search form.

• Section 106 Agreement/further agreement/deed of variation/unilateral undertaking
• Section 52 Agreement
• Section 38 Agreement / S278 Agreement
• Compulsory Purchase Order
• Tree Preservation Order
• Enforcement Notices
• Any other documents required

There is a standard charge of £29.00 per document which can be paid using the online local land search form.

There are sometimes additional costs. In such cases, we will advise the customer of these before proceeding.

Personal search

Payments for personal searches must be made online.

Request personal search information.

On receipt of a request for a personal search, our team will contact you to advise of the fee payable and provide a link to make payment. Upon receipt of payment we will then email you a copy of the register(s) within 15 days.

We do not charge for properties with no registrations.

Highway searches

You can request a highway search for a specific property or piece of land. This search includes information on whether the property or piece of land is public highway, maintainable by the highway authority or whether privately maintained.

Free requests – highway searches requested by private individuals, solicitors or personal search agencies – this includes a written response.
Charged requests – as above but with a highway extent plan – the charge is £74.50.

You can make a highway search online.

For further information concerning highway searches, please email Highways on HPS_genmail@reading.gov.uk

Privacy

The Local Land Charges privacy policy gives details of how the council’s service collects and uses your personal details.