Local Authority Searches
What's it all about?
When you are buying or selling a house, your solicitor will make a search of the Council's records to ensure there are no hidden surprises, such as motorways at the bottom of your garden or outstanding Notices requiring you to take action to remedy an earlier wrong doing.
Official Local Land Charge Searches
The Local Land Charge Section carries out all official searches covered by the Local Land charges Act 1975, guaranteeing comprehensive replies to the official LLC1 and CON29 enquiries.
The Law Society, which regulates solicitors, encourages the use of official searches and considers that alternative personal searches of the statutory register, disclosing only limited information, should only be undertaken with the approval of the client when time does not permit official searches. You are advised to confirm with your solicitor that an official search has been undertaken and to inspect the Certificate of Official Search.
Water Searches
United Utilities looks after the network of public sewers in Tameside. This is a change because until recently, we carried out the day to day work on sewers in our area. This work has now transferred to United Utilities.
If you are asking for a search to be undertaken or you are waiting to undertake a personal search, please contact United Utilities Map Services on 
0870 7510101. Access www.unitedutilities.com 
for further information.
Click here for help and advice on highway drainage, land drainage or private drainage.
Fees
Please note from the 1st January 2017 VAT will be charged on CON29 & CON29O Revised (0.07MB) 
. Details of how to submit payments associated with requests for service/personal searches are also available within the ‘CON29 & CON29O Revised’ link
| Full search both residential and commercial. |
£67.58 |
| Con29R |
£45.48 (including VAT) |
| LLC1 |
£22.10 |
| LLC1 extra neighbouring property |
£12.00 |
| Extra part 2 questions |
£14.40 each (including VAT) |
| Extra parcel of land or adjacent property |
£12.00 |
| Solicitors own written questions and/or copies of certificates, documents and notices (pre-2000) |
£30.00 (including VAT) |
| Personal search visit each address |
Free |
| Personal search neighbouring property |
Free |
| Commons / Village Green searches |
£14.40 (including VAT) |
What is a Personal Search?
If you wish to look at the Local Land Charge Register you can do this free of charge. This involves going to Hegginbottom Mill, Old Street, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 7SF by appointment only and carrying out a search yourself. Whilst you are there you can look at the land charges register and you can also have access to the Councils planning register/GIS Planweb database and the ARC view highways software.
If for any reason the highways information is unavailable you should contact highways@tameside.gov.uk
To arrange your half an hour slot you can e-mail landcharges@tameside.gov.uk to book an appointment. There are 2 appointments available at 10.00AM and 10.30AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The council's computerised Building Regulations records do not extend back before 1 November 1999 so apart from using page (in development) to check that far back, prior non public records need to be searched manually. The Council can search such records for a fee of £20. Please email landcharges@tameside.gov.uk.
Only the basic information that is required to be contained in these Registers is open for inspection.
Our Commitment to You
We aim to return all official searches within 20-25 working days.
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Land Charges
Tameside MBC
PO Box 304
Ashton Under Lyne
Tameside
OL6 0GA
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