Local land charges

Before you submit your official search request to us, you need to ensure that you have:

• Completed Law Society forms (LLC1, CON29R and/or CON29O)
• The full official postal address of the property you wish to search - plot addresses will be rejected
• Names or descriptions of roadways, footpaths or footways in Box C of the CON29R* (if applicable)
• A plan that complies with our latest Map Standard Policy (PDF, 112KB)
• Confirmation of the correct total search fee - please ensure to check our search fees prior to submission

*We are unable to accept coloured/hatched areas on a plan to denote this enquiry.

Official search types

Residential

Any domestic dwelling including houses, bungalows and self-contained flats either in residential or holiday use where the vendor is a private individual. This includes individual building plots for residential properties where the property is either currently vacant or under construction.

Commercial

Any other property, land or commercial premises e.g. a field, a working farm with land, a shop, business unit or a development site for residential properties which has not yet been street name and numbered.

Submitting an official search request

You can email our local land charges team at llc@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk to submit a search request.

Alternatively, you can submit a search request on the National Land Information Service (NLIS) website. We currently use Level 3 to accept searches. NLIS is the only online land and property searches portal in the market which is government approved and regulated.

Paying for an official search request

When your search has been accepted by us, we will send you an online payment link via email. Once you have made payment we will be notified and you will receive a payment receipt by email.

If your company is regularly requesting official searches from us we will contact you to arrange for you to pay for all of your search requests via a monthly invoice.

All official search results are returned by email as an Adobe PDF document.

Personal searches

Information about submitting a personal search can be found on our personal searches page.