Local land charges

Our fees and charges for Local Land Charges services will increase from 1 April 2021 by an average of between 1.0% and 2.4% across all the services. 

If you have submitted a Local Land Charges search, we aim to return 90% of Official searches within 10-12 working days and 100% of LLC1 register searches within five working days.

If you have submitted a request for a personal inspection of the Local Land Charges Register then you will be contacted within 24 hours and advised of our earliest appointment slot. All requests for a personal inspection of the Land Charges register will be booked around 20 days in advance and this is due to the number of personal search requests that we are receiving. All requests will be dealt with on the date they are received.

If you are a not a Personal Search Agent and you are enquiring as to the progress of your personal search, then please contact your Solicitor or whomever has ordered the personal search request.

If you would like to receive your search results before the Stamp Duty holiday ends on 1 July 2021, then you will need to submit your Official Search requests by Friday 11 June 2021. For LLC1 searches your request will need to be submitted by Friday 18 June 2021. Due to the volume of requests currently being received by the team, we will be unable to process any new requests for Personal Searches by 30 June 2021.

This is due to COVID-19. Please do not send searches in by post as we are working from home. Instead, email land.charges@lewisham.gov.uk.

We will contact you to take payment by card. No cheques will be accepted.