On 26 March 2026 we became the 145th Authority to migrate to HM Land Registry's new digital Local Land Charge service. You can access it through their Portal [opens in new window], Business Gateway and on their GOV.UK page [opens in new window].
Darlington Borough Council continues to provide replies to CON29, customer responses and remains responsible for maintaining charges on the LLC register.
It is important to remember Fees have changed.
Purchase a Local Authority Search via our online system (press the green button).
If you have questions about your application, please email the team at [email protected]
If you are planning to buy a house or plot of land, or lease a property, you will need to know whether you will be charged for outstanding or ongoing services.
The search will provide you with important information so that you are aware of any charges or responsibilities you will be taking on when you exchange contracts.
The word ‘charge’ means any outstanding financial claim, restriction, decision or information which may affect a particular property or parts of land. These charges are binding on successive owners.
Charges may be for such services as roads, restrictions such as tree preservation orders and conditions imposed on planning permissions, conservation areas, legal agreements and listed buildings.
The search also provides other important information, for example if a property has been improved with the help of a Local Authority Grant, which would affect your reselling or renting out the property.
A Local Authority Search comes in parts; LLC1, CON29R and CON29O.
This relates to all the registerable (financial) charges which could arise from improvement/renovation grants, tree preservation orders, conservation orders, smoke control and planning applications which have been approved with conditions from 1 August 1977. Purchase this from HM Land Registry [opens in new window]
Enquiries 1 – 3 deal with enquiries relating to planning, highways and environmental services which may affect the property or land. We reply to this for one inclusive based on cost recovery only in accordance with legislation. Purchase from this council [internal link]
Enquiries 4 – 22 are charged for individually and we only reply if the purchaser or the legal practitioner places a tick in the appropriate box on the front of the form. Purchase from this council [internal link]
See our Fees and Payments [internal link] page for more information.
By post: Local Land Charges, Legal Services, Town Hall, Darlington, DL1 5QT
Telephone: 01325 403145
Email: [email protected]
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