Public Access Land Charges

Public Access Land Charges provides a fully electronic official search service, connecting users directly to land and property information held by Ipswich Borough Council.

Create an account by clicking the button below to submit and receive your searches electronically from the Local Land Charges Team. Please note that the button opens in a new window.

Create an account for electronic land searches

If you already have an account and wish to access it, log in by clicking the button below. Please note that the button also opens in a new window.

Log in to your account

Benefits

Public Access Land Charges offers users the following advantages:

Direct access

  • From any web browser direct to and from the Local Land Charges team
  • No third party go-betweens
  • No add-on transaction fees.

Ease of use

  • Intelligent web forms
  • Step by step process captures correct information
  • Pick addresses from the Council's central database
  • Upload a scanned plan of the extent - no online drawing
  • Get downloadable response document.

Environmentally friendly

  • No paper
  • No printing
  • No post.

Economical

 

Public Access Land Charges 

 NLIS Channels

 LLC1  £22.50  £22.50 + transaction fee
 Con29  £126  £105 + transaction fee

For more information please see our Search Fees page.

Additional services

Component data searches

Public Access Land Charges provides a tailored search enabling ordering of specific component data enquiries.

Information provided:

  • Replies to specific questions only
  • An ordnance survey map of the search extent.

For more information please see our Search Fees page.

Personal searches

Public Access Land Charges provides a service creating a Compiled Personal Search of the Local Land Charges Register.

Information provided:

  • A copy of the Register
  • An Ordnance Survey map of the search extent.

There is a compilation fee of £10 payable on order.

For more information please see our Search Fees page.

Important information

Cancellation

The system is not designed for dealing with cancellations; if you delete a search before it is completed you will still receive the results and will be charged.

If you need to cancel a search, please contact the Local Land Charges team.

If work has started on processing your search a refund will not be given.

Fees

The full table of Land Charges fees with effect from 1 October 2022 can be found on our Search Fees page

If you have any queries, please send these via email to: land.charges@ipswich.gov.uk

Public Access Land Charges takes all payments from a user's credit or debit card in line with Council procedures. Should a refund be required, it will be made directly back onto the original card used. 

Please note if you have submitted a search containing CON29 enquiries, you will receive a confirmation of payment receipt, which is not for VAT purposes.  A VAT receipt will be issued with your search results on completion

Alternatively, we can accept payment through BACS; this will need to be set up by emailing banking.income@ipswich.gov.uk. Full details of the procedures and bank account details will be provided.

Please note, if you are VAT registered and if you wish to seek agreement for self-billing, it is your responsibility to send us a self-billing agreement which needs to be signed by both parties, the local authority as the supplier and yourselves as the self-billing customer.

Get full advice on VAT self-billing.