Conveyancing in Hackney - Local Land Charges

The Hackney Local Land Charges service provides information to members of the public, or more frequently, solicitors conducting conveyancing in Hackney. The Local Land Charges section of Hackney will investigate whether there are any legal restrictions which may affect the property, and will bring all the information together in the form of a Local Authority search.

A Local Land Charges official search is a conveyancing search which investigates whether there are any restrictions imposed on a property which are legally binding on successive owners or restrictions which may affect a potential purchaser’s decision to buy a property. The conveyancing search brings all the information together in the form of a Local Authority search where information is collected from various departments throughout Hackney council, including Environmental Health, Highways Engineers, Planning, and Building Regulation Approvals.

Local Land Charges provides information of charges held on all property within the Hackney Council’s jurisdiction. The information is mainly provided for purposes of conveyancing in Hackney.

An official search is usually carried out by instructing a conveyancing solicitor but if you have conveyance experience in property searches, you may submit an application in the relevant forms (LLC1 and CON29 (R)) to the Local Land Charges Section.

To complete the full search Hackney Council currently take up to five working days.
If you are a member of the public and wish to carry out your own search you must have conveyance knowledge about property searches,e.g. a Personal Search Agency. If you don’t have this knowledge you should seek the advice of a conveyance solicitor to ensure all aspects of the work are done correctly. Personal searches are not accompanied by a legal certificate as only official searches qualify for legal certificates; personal searches do not carry legal certificates.

These days Local Searches are contained in Home Information Packs. Where this conveyancing search is out of date or invalid then the Conveyancing Hackney Team will carry out new searches or take out indemnity insurance. If you are buying a property and require clarification on the search results please do not hesitate to contact the Hackney Conveyancing Team.