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    Land charges

    Requested Thu 27 February 2020
    Responded  Fri 13 March 2020

    I am trying to pull together some benchmarking data for land charges, but couldn't find some of the information on your website, hence I thought that I would drop you an email instead. I would be most grateful if you could provide the following information: 1)Please can you confirm the number of staff along with their FTE that you had/have in your Land Charges Team for the 2016, 2017, 2018 and current financial years. 2)Please can you provide the total cost of providing your service (for the avoidance of doubt this should be the figure that you publish in order to comply with paragraphs 8 and 9 of The Local Authorities (England) (Charges for Property Searches) Regulations 2008) for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 financial years. In addition please can you provide your estimate of costs for the 2019 financial year. 3)Please can you provide the total number of searches that you carried out as a land charges service (for the avoidance of doubt this should be the figure that you publish in order to comply with paragraphs 8 and 9 of The Local Authorities (England) (Charges for Property Searches) Regulations 2008) for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 financial years. In addition please can you provide your estimate of the number of searches to be carried out for the 2019 financial year. 4)Please can you also provide a breakdown of the searches referred to in question 3 under the following categories - Personal, LLC1, CON29 and Full Standard Searches. 5)Please provide any performance data relating to the time taken to process search requests for the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 financial years. 6)Please can you also confirm whether you are introducing a separate fee for searches regarding commercial properties. 7)If any of the data listed above is available on your Council website, please can you provide a direct link to the specific page in which that data sits.

    Response

    1)

    2016/17 LLPG & LLC Team 1.8 FTE Housing 0.2 FTE Environmental Health 0.2 FTE Building Control (Rother & Hastings Building Control Partnership) - information not held Highways (East Sussex County Council) - information not held

    2017/18 LLPG & LLC Team 1.8 FTE Housing 0.2 FTE Environmental Health 0.2 FTE Building Control (Rother & Hastings Building Control Partnership) - information not held Highways (East Sussex County Council) - information not held

    2018/19 LLPG & LLC Team 1.8 FTE Housing 0.2 FTE Environmental Health 0.2 FTE Building Control (East Sussex Building Control Partnership) - information not held Highways (East Sussex County Council) - information not held

    2019/20 LLPG & LLC Team 1.8 FTE Housing 0.2 FTE Environmental Health 0.2 FTE Building Control (East Sussex Building Control Partnership) - information not held Highways (East Sussex County Council) - information not held

    2)

    2016/17 - £118,687.37

    2017/18 - £142,347.67

    2018/19 - £108,707.40

    2019/20 - £180,660.00

    3) Figures below include Personal Searches of the Local Land Charges Register, LLC1 only searches, CON29 only searches including partial CON29 searches, full searches and requests for CON29 data under Environmental Information Regulations.

    2016/17 - 5322

    2017/18 - 3248 2

    018/19 - 2851

    4)

    2016/17

    Personal - 1083

    LLC1 - 1774

    CON29 - 1839

    Full 1658

    Requests for information under EIR - 434

    2017/18

    Personal - 1365

    LLC1 - 1346

    CON29 - 1465

    Full - 1260

    Requests for information under EIR - 332

    2018/19

    Personal - 1444

    LLC1 - 1001

    CON29 - 1103

    Full - 975

    Requests for information under EIR - 278

    2019/20 - Estimates based on figures for April to February

    Personal - 1600

    LLC1 - 700

    CON29 - 1000

    Full - 670

    Requests for information under EIR - 260

    5) Please see attached spread sheet

    6) We are not introducing a separate fee for searches regarding commercial properties

    7) Not published on our website

    Attachments

    • FOIR-178463247_FOIR-178463247_1-Performance_stats.xlsx
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