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Land Data responds to Ministry of Justice and Department for Communities and Local Government decision to raise fee for personal search of the local land charges register
Land Data is pleased with the Ministry of Justice’s decision
to increase the personal search fee for the local land charges
register from £11 to £22, from 1st January 2010.
With Local Authorities (LAs) working to government regulation
stipulating that their fees should reflect cost recovery, the
majority of LAs have been subsidising the cost of every personal
search undertaken.
Commenting on the decision, Land Data CEO Jan Boothroyd said:
“Working on an un-level playing field and subsidising the
business of private search firms serves no benefit to the public
and achieved the exact opposite of the Government stated intention.
This fee increase is a positive move and goes some way to help
level out the playing field.”
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For further information please contact:
Fiona Barron / Justin Scott at Land Data
T: 07770 855 337 / 020 7268 3577
E: fiona.barron@land-data.org.uk /
justin.scott@land-data.org.uk
www.land-data.org.uk
Notes to Editors
Land Data regulates NLIS, which was set up to support local
authorities (LAs) and other property information holders in England
and Wales in their move from manual to electronic provision of
property information services. The NLIS Hub is connected to all
local authorities in England and Wales, Land Registry, the Coal
Authority and other sources of land and property information. The
information is distributed by NLIS Channels to around 15,000
subscribed solicitors and licensed conveyancers. Since it began
operation in 2001, more that 17 million searches have been
processed by the NLIS Hub. Land Data became a Community Interest
Company in January 2006 in recognition of its commitment to making
electronic property search information accessible to the general
public and thereby improving the home buying process.
