Gloucester City Council have advised us of an increase in their search fees from Monday 22nd June 2020.
The standard search fee will increase from £151.00 to £166.00. This applies to both residential and commercial searches, and includes our admin fee.
The change will apply automatically on our systems from 22nd July.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We hope you’re all well in these challenging times.
Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, Severn Trent Searches have made some changes to the way we work.
Our staff are still working to provide as normal a service as possible. We have had to temporarily close our Nottingham office, but are all working remotely, and able to offer the majority of our services.
We are able to complete CON29DW searches as normal, and the majority of our suppliers are also offering a complete service. Some local authorities however have understandably had to reduce or halt production of CON29 and LLC1 searches as they prioritise their resources. Any updates we receive regarding affected services are posted in the news section of our website.
During this period, our usual phone numbers, email and postal addresses will continue to function as normal. Full details can be found on our contact page.
Most importantly, stay safe and we look forward to hearing from you as normal.
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.
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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Mansfield District Council have provided us with the following update regarding their CON29 and LLC1 searches:
“It has been decided to now close Mansfield District Council offices completely.
I have had discussions this morning with my team and senior officers and we have decided to continue search requests via homeworking and email however, as we cannot check any paper information that is still contained inside the building the search responses will also include the following statement:
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