Local Land Charges
The pace at which we are migrating local authorities to our national Local Land Charges Register has dramatically increased, thanks to the creative focus and hard work of our dedicated team and our local authority and private partners.
We are working with a range of private sector delivery partners to quicken the pace of delivery of our Local Land Charges Programme and the benefits it brings to the property market.
Our Local Land Charges Programme has won the Geospatial Innovation of the Year category in the Digital Leaders 100 awards. We are incredibly proud that industry has recognised the importance and long-term benefits of the programme and the national register.
Our Early Engagement Team plays an important role in promoting the benefits of our Local Land Charges service and accelerating the number and pace of local authority migrations. Team leader Jamie Winch explains how they're building working relationships with councils across England and Wales.
It's been a year since Mark Kelso became Programme Director for Local Land Charges. Twelve months on, he discusses what has been achieved so far and looks ahead to what's next.
Our Local Land Charges Advisory Board ensures our stakeholders’ interests are considered when developing policies, services and products.
Openness and honesty have underpinned the hard work involved in migrating Stockton-on-Tees' data to the central Local Land Charges Register, says the council's Legal Practice Team Leader Alison Thomas.
Increasing the pace at which local authorities are joining our digital Local Land Charges Register is vital. Through listening to user feedback and identifying the scope and scale of the work required for each authority, we have developed a new regional approach to deliver a better experience.
Each local authority migrating their data to our Local Land Charges Register will now be provided with a support package selected according to their particular needs.
Since the coronavirus lockdown began we have made sure our Local Land Charges Register remains available to customers, with our technical team working remotely to support it. March saw our fourth highest volume of official local land charges searches sold to date.