Submitting a Local Authority Search

We want to be able to begin processing your search application on the day we receive it. However, incomplete applications may cause a delay and occasionally we may have to return these to you. When submitting a Local Authority Search, please be aware of the following: 

• form LLC1 must be submitted in duplicate
• form CON29(R) Required Enquiries of the Local Authority (2007 edition) and CON29(O) Optional Enquiries of the Local Authority (2007 edition) must be submitted in duplicate.
• Each search request form, LLC1, CON29 Required or CON29 Optional is now a standalone document and can be submitted in any combination along with the correct fee. If you wish to check an area of land/property to ascertain the correct fee, please contact us.
• an up to date plan of the property must be submitted in duplicate. The area to be searched against should be clearly identified, preferably edged in red
• the fee received must be correct before an application can be processed. All cheques should be made payable to Oxford City Council. Other payment methods include pounds sterling, bankers draft or postal orders and BACS for NLIS searches submitted online
• box C on the CON29(R) form: please identify the roadways, footpaths and footways either by name or by colouring the areas on the plan submitted with your search

From 1 August 2007 searches submitted electronically via the NLIS Hub will be on the revised CON29 forms. However, for an additional period of two weeks only, we are prepared to accept search requests submitted manually i.e. by DX/post/hand on the old forms. Replies to those search requests will be in accordance with the revised CON29 format.

During this time, should any search submitted manually on the old form CON29 be required for inclusion in a HIP, it is essential that it should be accompanied by a covering statement containing the information required in Box E of the revised CON29(R), as detailed in the HIP Regulations.

All information necessary to complete the CON29 "Required" element of the HIP, which includes unrefined information (i.e. not held on a statutory register), will be made available on submission of the CON29(R)  form with payment in advance.

Local Land Charges Section will be the "One Stop Shop" for any search applicant wishing to access all unrefined data. Departments within Oxford City Council are working towards enabling access to this information as currently not all of this data is held in an accessible format.

Search Cancellation Policy

The cancellation policy of Oxford City Council is to accept a cancellation request for a local authority search on the day of receipt only. This applies to searches received by hand, post, DX and NLIS on-line searches.

Page last reviewed 8 Apr 2008