Personal searches
There are other types of searches commonly referred to as ‘personal searches’.
Any member of the public conveyancer, solicitor or third-party companies, commonly known as personal search companies acting on behalf of a solicitor, can carry out a personal search of the statutory Local Land Charge register for free. This is usually by appointment at the Civic offices. However, personal inspections of the register are currently unavailable. The register information is now provided via email upon receipt of a request. This will continue until we are able to re-introduce personal inspections
Personal search companies interpret and compile the register information in their own search format.
The Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) entitles anyone to obtain other search information required to answer a CON29. A small percentage of this data is already available online.
The remainder of this data is only available directly from the source data holders in each of the departments across the council.
A personal search is not a local authority product.
It is not backed by the council’s insurance and not compiled by the experts in each of the information fields.
In addition, there is no legally binding contract completed by the local authority.
Therefore, the local authority has no responsibility for any omission or misinterpretation by anyone carrying out this type of search.