Land charges

What is a land charge?

A land charge is a restriction or obligation on a property or piece of land. It is usually to limit its use or secure payment of a debt to the council related to the property. These restrictions bind all future owners or occupiers of the land.

Local Land Charges (LLC1) searches

These restrictions are not always included in your deeds. Your solicitor will do a local authority search as part of the conveyancing when you buy or re-mortgage a property.

A land charge search will reveal any existing charges on the property. This may help you decide whether to continue with your sale.

You can request both domestic and commercial local land charge searches. They detail the prohibitions and restrictions that may affect a property's use.

What the land charge search will identify

  • The planning history of the location and any queries over its use.
  • Any planning policies which affect the location.
  • Any developments that directly affect the location.
  • All charges that would restrict use or result in a charge for the new owner of the property.

Request a land charge search

This service is now provided through HM Land Registry (HMLR).

You can request a search through:

Types of searches

You can request local property information. You can do this by requesting different types of searches. To request any of these searches, email the Land Charges Team.

Personal Search

This is a search of the local charges register. It is carried out under the Local Land Charges Act 1975 and Local Land Charges Rules 1977. This search shows all registered property restrictions.

 

It includes smoke control, enforcement notices, and financial charges.

 

This service is  now provided through HM Land Registry (HMLR).

 

Please request through the HM Land Registry portal, Business Gateway or HM Land Registry on Gov.uk

LLC1

Responsibility for the Harrow Local Land Charges Register has transferred to HM Land Registry (HMLR), who now hold the official register and provide LLC1 search results. 

 

Please request through the HM Land Registry portal, Business Gateway or HM Land Registry on Gov.uk

CON29R

The CON29R search has mandatory enquiries for a property search. This search provides information, including:

  • Building and planning regulation applications
  • Planning proposals
  • Roadway adoptions
  • Traffic and road schedules
  • Public purposes for the land
  • Drainage agreements and consents
  • Railway schemes
  • Public health notices
  • Conservation areas

CON29O

The CON29O search contains extra optional enquires.

This search gives potential buyers information about the property and, in some cases, its area. 

The search contains a standard set of enquires in respect of:

  • Planning
  • Building Control
  • Environmental Health
  • Compulsory Purchase Orders
  • other matters of interest to home buyers.

The enquiries on this part of a Con29 form may be more relevant to some properties than to others. They can include the following:

  • Public footpaths,
  • Parks, countryside, and common land areas
  • Noise abatement
  • Environmental and pollution notices
  • Completion notices
  • Land maintenance notices
  • Urban development areas
  • Houses in Multiple occupations (HMO)
  • Pipelines

Full Searches

This search is a combination of the LLC1 and CON29 searches. To see what this includes, please see the LLC1 and CON29 information above.

Building control and planning history reports

Property history reports provide information from Planning and Building Control records, including past applications, approvals and related activity for a property.


These reports are supplied for guidance only, they are not a substitute for a Local Land Charges (LLC1) or CON29 search and do not provide a legal guarantee as to the status of a property.

 

Request a building control or planning history report

Land charge search fees

The listing below shows the fees for Local Land charges and enquiries in Harrow. They apply to applications received from 6 April 2026.

  • LLC1 form/ LLC1 additional parcel 
    Harrow’s Local Land Charges Register has now migrated to HM Land Registry’s national register. Please request through Portal, Business Gateway or HM Land Registry’s GOV.UK pages.:
  • CON29 form
    • Fee: £289.00
    • 20% VAT: £57.80
    • Total fee: £346.80
  • CON29 additional parcel
    • Fee: £22.00
    • 20% VAT: £4.40
    • Total fee: £26.40
  • CON29 additional part 2 enquiry
    • Fee: £39.00
    • 20% VAT: £7.80
    • Total fee: £46.80
  • CON29O additional parcel, part 2 enquiry
    • Fee: £39.00
    • 20% VAT: £7.80
    • Total fee: £46.80
  • Each additional non-printed question (not included in the CON29O)
    • Fee: £44.00
    • 20% VAT: £8.80
    • Total fee: £52.80
  • Any Enquiry Under EIR Regulations, pertaining to Land charges
    • Fee: £44.00
    • 20% VAT: £8.80
    • Total fee: £52.80

Property history reports

  • Building Control only
    • Fee: £9.00
    • 20% VAT: £1.80
    • Total fee: £10.80
  • Planning History only
    • Fee: £9.00
    • 20% VAT: £1.80
    • Total fee: £10.80
  • Building Control and Planning Search
    • Fee: £18.00
    • 20% VAT: £.3.60
    • Total fee: £21.60

Please note:
Each Individual question submitted in relation to a property will be treated as a separate chargeable enquiry.

Registration Services

Address: London Borough of Harrow
Land Charges Department
PO Box 1358
Harrow
HA3 3QN