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Response 3817600

Response to request for information

Reference

3817600

Response date

1 October 2025

Request

For the calendar year (1st January - 31st December) 2024 and from 1st January 2025 to 31st August 2025, looking at local land searches (LLC1 and CON29) undertaken by your council:

  1. What was the average processing time in days?
  2. What were the fastest and slowest processing times in each year?
  3. How many staff members did you have processing these searches?
  4. The number of requests received and processed each year (by month)?
  5. The number of requests not completed within 10 working days?
  6. At the date of receiving/processing this request, the current backlog of outstanding requests and the longest case still pending.
  7. Whether the authority's Local Land Charges Register has been migrated to HM Land Registry's centralised digital service, and if not, the projected migration date.

Response

For the calendar year (1 January - 31 December) 2024 and from 1 January 2025 to 31 August 2025, looking at local land searches (LLC1 and CON29) undertaken by your council:

  1. What was the average processing time in days?

    • April 2023 to March 2024

      • LLC1 = 5
      • Con29 = 8.5
    • April 2024 to March 2025
      • LLC1 = 6.5
      • Con29 = 9.5
    • April 2025 to August 2025
      • Con29 = 9.5
  2. What were the fastest and slowest processing times in each year?
    • We don not hold this information
  3. How many staff members did you have processing these searches?
    • The land charge function is performed by the councils Business Support Unit. There are 2 members of staff trained to use the land charges system, however they perform this duty alongside other duties. Time monitoring is not undertaken so we cannot provide information in relation to FTE
  4. The number of requests received and processed each year (by month)?
    • Again we only hold information by financial year and not by month
    • 2003-24 All requests = 3116
    • 2004-25 All requests = 3662
    • April to August 25 Con29 requests 358 (LLC1 migrated)
  5. The number of requests not completed within 10 working days?
    • We do not hold this information
  6. At the date of receiving/processing this request, the current backlog of outstanding requests and the longest case still pending.
    • 6, all at 3 days
  7. Whether the authority's Local Land Charges Register has been migrated to HM Land Registry's centralised digital service, and if not, the projected migration date.
    • Yes it had been migrated on 4 April 2025

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