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Worthing: 01903 221038
Adur: 01903 221490

landcharges@adur-worthing.gov.uk

 Adur & Worthing Councils Local Land Charges Service

• Introduction
• Joint working of Adur and Worthing Local Land Charges service
• Who can commission a local authority search?
• Current fees
• Turnaround times
• Other useful information
• Worthing and Adur: Access and Charging Arrangements for Property Information

• NEW : Submit your search for Adur and Worthing On-line

Introduction

Moving home can be one of the most stressful experiences in our lives.

The Local Land Charges Section at Worthing Borough Council is part of the Legal and Democratic Services Department and is a joint service provided to both Adur and Worthing councils. We offer a quick, efficient and reliable service to help make your home moving experience as stress-free as possible.

We provide an important service to members of the public who are purchasing homes and property.  The section collates information from a range of council departments at Worthing Borough Council and Adur District Council to compile replies to search enquiries, and ensure that search requests are returned as promptly as possible, so minimizing delays in the house buying process.

The Council has a statutory duty under the Local Land Charges Act 1975 to maintain an accurate and up-to-date Register of Local Land Charges affecting land and property in the Borough and provide replies to Enquiries of the CON29R (Required) and CON29O (Optional) forms.  Details of any Charges that are registered to land and property are listed in the Borough Council’s Local Land Charges Register.

A Local Land Charge is a restriction or prohibition imposed on a particular piece of land either to secure the payment of a sum of money, or to limit the use of the land.  This charge is binding on successive owners and occupiers of the land. The object of the search is to uncover any restrictions or legal obligations against the site.  This is to ensure that purchasers of land are not caught unawares by obligations enforceable against successive owners or occupiers of the land by local authorities under the terms of the various statutes.

Joint working of Adur and Worthing Local Land Charges service

Adur and Worthing's Local Land Charges services are now working together in partnership, you can find out more from the PDF document here:

Who can commission a local authority search?

Anyone may commission a Local Authority search by submitting the correct forms, together with the required fee by post or DX. Searches may also be submitted electronically via the website from 11/1/10, via email from 18/8/10 and via the NLIS hub. Alternatively, an EIR request of our register may be undertaken. For further information, please see the relevant sections below.

Where an email address is supplied on a search request, we will assume consent to return the search reply electronically.  Should you wish to receive a hard copy of your search result, please contact us at landcharges@adur-worthing.gov.uk or 01903 221038 or 01903 221490.

Cancellation of searches

If for any reason an applicant wishes to stop payment or cancel a cheque for payment made in respect of a search, the applicant must contact the Local Land Charges Section at landcharges@adur-worthing.gov.uk

In the event that we do not receive written confirmation of a search cancellation request or notification to stop payment or cancel a cheque, we will still require payment to be made in full for any work that has been carried out.

Search requests can only be cancelled under normal circumstances during the period before we have prepared our accounts for the day on which the request was added to our computer system. Where a search has been completed, or carried out to a significant extent prior to the preparation of daily accounts, it would again not be possible to cancel the request.

Current Fees

Please see the Fees page.

Turnaround Times

We are currently completing LLC1 and CON29R searches within 2 working days for Worthing searches and 3-5 working days for Adur searches.  Turnaround times are monitored on a weekly basis and reported to the Legal Services Manager.  Should you wish to find out how your search is progressing, please do not hesitate to contact us with details of who submitted the search and the address of the property/land to be searched against. Where an email address is supplied on a search request, we will assume consent to return the search reply electronically.  Should you wish to receive a hard copy of your search result, please contact us at landcharges@adur-worthing.gov.uk or 01903 221038 or 01903 221490.

Other Useful Information

FENSA

For FENSA (building regulations) information please contact: http://www.fensa.co.uk/asp/certificate.asp

Access and Charging Arrangements for Property Information

For details of access and charges, where applicable, for the obtaining of raw property information, please see:

• Worthing enquiries: Property Search - Access and Charging Arrangements
• Adur enquiries: Link to External Site - Adur Local Land Charges (scroll down the page to the Adur access and charging arrangement forms)

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