FI16298

Request

1. What was the average processing time in days?

2. What were the fastest and slowest processing times in each year?

3. How many staff members did you have processing these searches?

4. The number of requests received and processed each year (by month)?

5. The number of requests not completed within 10 working days?

6. At the date of receiving/processing this request, the current backlog of outstanding requests and the longest case still pending. 

7. Whether the authority’s Local Land Charges Register has been migrated to HM Land Registry’s centralised digital service, and if not, the projected migration date.

Response

1. 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024 – 7 working days

01/01/2025 to 31/08/2025 – 7 working days

2. 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024 – Fastest 1 working day, slowest  13  working days

01/01/2025 to 31/08/2025 – Fastest 2 working days, slowest 15 working days

3. Two.

4. January 2024 – 64

February 2024 – 59

March 2024 – 58

April 2024 – 62

May 2024 – 85

June 2024 – 66

July 2024 – 80

August 2024 – 59

September 2024 – 77

October 2024 - 64

November 2024 – 53

December 2024 - 43

January 2025 – 47

February 2025 – 45

March 2025 – 77

April 2025 – 80

May 2025 – 58

June 2025 – 63

July 2025 – 82

August 2025 - 57

5. 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024 – 65

01/01/2025 to 31/08/2025 – 16

6. As of processing this request there are 24 outstanding requests, longest case pending 7 working days

7. We migrated to HMLR in April 2025