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Update from Stratford-Upon-Avon land charges

Posted on by Iain Robertson

Stratford-Upon-Avon District Council have provided us with the following update regarding their CON29 and LLC1 searches:

“In adhering to government advice Stratford-on-Avon District Council have had to make a decision on which services they can viably sustain during the current Coronavirus Emergency.

As Land Charge systems do not facilitate homeworking in part or full Stratford-on-Avon District Council have temporarily suspended the acceptance of any NEW search requests (Official and Personal). We aim to try and complete all those currently committed in the system as soon as possible in order of date received (oldest to newest).

At the point we are able to resume accepting new (Official and Personal) search requests we will inform all our customers and update our website accordingly.

We will do all we can to work through our backlog.”

The council had previously announced that they would be implementing new prices for these searches in April. They currently intend to review these once they reopen.

Changes to Landmark commercial searches from 18th April

Posted on by Iain Robertson

Update 06/04/20: Landmark will still be decommissioning the Riskview Commercial and Sitecheck Flood searches as planned, but the price increase has been postponed. Prices have been removed from this post. 

Landmark Information Group have announced some changes to their range of commercial searches from 18th April.

The RiskView Commercial and Sitecheck Flood searches will both be decommissioned from this date.

Landmark advises that Riskview Commercial customers instead order Sitesolutions Combined.

The company are also making some changes to price of their Utilities Reports, Sitecheck Combined and Sitecheck Planning reports once the current health crisis is over:

Thames Water Property Searches

Posted on by Iain Robertson

Updated 21/05/20

Thames are now operating again remotely without issue. Orders should continue to be sent to them as normal.

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Thames Water have closed their property searches department during the current crisis. During this period we will not be able to obtain searches for properties within the Thames region, or complete searches in cross-border areas.

Their statement reads as follows:

“During these challenging times, we’ve made the decision to focus our resources on our first business priority – continuing to supply water and wastewater services , while keeping our customers and staff safe. This means that our property searches will be impacted. We’ve closed for now and will be pausing all current services.

“We’re sorry for the inconvenience this has caused and thank you for your patience during this time.”

Update on Stoke land charges

Posted on by Iain Robertson

City of Stoke-On-Trent land charges have provided us with the following update on their service:

“In response to the recent government advice I would like to inform you of our contingency plans for the Local Land Charges service continuity.

The safety of our customers, the public and our workers is our priority.  From 2pm on Monday 23rd March 2020 the Local Land Charges team will be operating a work from home policy until such time we are advised otherwise.
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Coal Authority price increase postponed

Posted on by Iain Robertson

The Coal Authority price increase, scheduled for 1st April, has been postponed due to the current Coronavirus outbreak.

The information they have provided regarding this, and their current service status can be found below:

“We recognise during these unprecedented times that our customers may need some additional support and we want to do all that we can to help.
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