FOI request (FOIR-750072363)

Local land searches

Requested Wed 17 September 2025
Responded Tue 14 October 2025

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:v

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.

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Response

1. Information not held.

2.

2024 - 3 Days and 28 Days

2025 - 5 Days and 23 Days

3.

2024 - 0.4 FTE

2025 - 0.4 FTE increased to 0.5 FTE from July onwards

4.

2024 Received:

Jan - 54

Feb - 94

Mar - 71

Apr - 124

May - 72

Jun - 93

Jul - 96

Aug - 82

Sep - 91

Oct - 83

Nov - 70

Dec - 45

2024 Processed:

Jan - 38

Feb - 41

Mar - 61

Apr - 101

May - 77

Jun - 84

Jul - 103

Aug - 85

Sep - 84

Oct - 92

Nov - 89

Dec - 47

2025 Received:

Jan - 95

Feb - 112

Mar - 121

Apr - 108

May - 54

Jun - 60

Jul - 62

Aug - 70

2025 Processed:

Jan - 65

Feb - 97

Mar - 106

Apr - 133

May - 70

Jun - 75

Jul - 56

Aug - 54

5.

2024 - 866

2025 - 652

6.

Outstanding Requests - 34

Longest case Outstanding - 15 Days

7. Yes