Local Land Charges

Page last updated 28 August 2026

Our Land Charges system is now live and we are accepting land charges searches.

Land searches update Friday 28 August 2026:

Our new Land Charges system launched in July and we resumed accepting searches. Our Local Land Charges Register is also now live and will be updated daily.

Our downtime backlog is now clear. We are currently processing requests received in August.

With the exception of a small number of searches (either awaiting payment, requiring information from other authorities, or pending responses from submitters), all outstanding searches received during the period of downtime are completed.

How we accept searches

We accept requests for searches in the following ways: via our new portal, email, through NLIS or other search providers.

If you have already submitted your search by email or other providers, you do not need to resubmit it.

Personal searches

We have received a number of requests relating to personal searches. Personal searches are not submitted to us for processing and are undertaken by your agent using the publicly available register. We are unable to assist you with these queries as they are not submitted to the Land Charges team and therefore we do not process them or have a record of them.

If you have requested a personal search you will need to contact your personal search agent for an indication of the likely timescales.

What is a personal search?

A personal search is where an agent checks our public registers for charges affecting a property. They may raise additional questions directly with council departments such as planning. Once they hear back on all these queries they will complete the search and return it to the buyer’s solicitor.

Register

The portal is open for receiving searches. If you want to submit a search request via our new portal, you will need to register an account. The instructions for registering an account are here.

Our Local Land Charges team is responsible for:

maintaining the Local Land Charges Register
carrying out Local Searches
providing copy documents
holding copies of the Oxfordshire County Council highways and public rights of way maps and information (we do not hold details of land ownership or boundaries).

We are linked to the National Land Information Service (NLIS) at Level 3, and can receive and return Local Search requests electronically. Our fees and charges are reviewed annually on 1st April. You can see the details of the fees and charges further down this page.

Our Promises To You

We will provide a friendly and efficient service, which aims to be 100% accurate at all times
We will respond to all official Searches within 8 working days (although we will endeavour to respond within 5 working days)
We will make the Local Land Charges Register available for Personal Searches
We will respond to copy document requests within 5 working days of receipt of written requests
We will respond to written enquiries within 10 working days of receipt
We have adopted the Local Land Charges Code of Practice published by the Local Government Association.

Local Land Charges Fees – Effective 1 April 2026

Unfortunately we cannot accept search requests made by post or paid by cheque. Searches can be submitted by email with payment by BACS. If you require further details of the process please contact the team either by phone or email.

These fees now include Vat on Con29. As introduced by HMRC. Here’s the fees for local land charges searches:

OFFICIAL SEARCH

LLC1 (Registers only) Residential – £98.00
CON29R Residential (Inc VAT) – £166.80
LLC1 and CON29R Residential – £264.80
LLC1 (Registers Only ) Commercial – £128
CON29R Commercial (Inc VAT) – £219.60
LLC1 and CON29R Commercial – £347.60
CON29O Optional enquiries 5 – 21 (Inc VAT) – £22.80
CON29O enquiry 22 (Inc VAT and admin fee) – £67.37
Additional Enquiries – £45.60
Additional Parcels of Land (LLC1 and Con29) – £43.00 (LLC1 only – £19, Con29 only inc VAT – £24.00)
Registration of a charge in Part 11 of the register (light obstruction notices ) – £101
Filling a definitive certificate of the Land Tribunal under rule 10 (3) in Part 11 of the register – £21
Filing a judgement, order or application for the variation or cancellation of any entry in Part 11 of the register – £21

Garages are included in the basic search fee i.e. garages or parking spaces in a separate block, forming part of the title.

We return searches electronically by email.

Electronic searches

We can receive searches electronically. We accept searches via:

National Land Information Service

There are no additional charges for receiving search responses electronically.

Anyone can carry out a personal search of the Local Land Charges Register which is now live.

Additional parcels of land

The guidance note on the LLC1 for a Parcel of Land states:
‘A separate requisition for search should be made in respect of each parcel of land in respect of which a search is required except where, for the purpose of a single transaction, a certificate is required in respect of two or more parcels of land which have a common boundary or are separated only by a road, railway, river, stream or canal.

Parcel of Land’ means land (including a building or part of a building) which is separately occupied or separately rated or, if not occupied or rated, in separate ownership. For the purpose of this definition an owner is the person who (in his own right or as trustee for any other person) is entitled to receive the rack rent of land, or, where the land is not let at a rack rent, would be so entitled if it were so let.’

A parcel of land is each separately owned or occupied piece of land or dwelling which is within the area outlined
in red on the search plan.

We can only accept a Search which covers several parcels if the boundaries of each parcel actually abut.

We do not classify garages as separate parcels where they form part of one title.

If the boundaries of the parcels do not abut, then we require a separate search for each parcel.

Local Land Charges fees are set annually in accordance with council guidelines and having regard to the predicted actual costs of providing the service on a ‘cost-recovery’ basis

Local Land Charges Personal (Non Official) Searches

Anyone can carry out a personal search of the Local Land Charges Register. To search the Local Land Charges register go to our Online Local Land Charges Register

To learn how to navigate the Online Local Land Charges Register guidance notes are available via the download

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