An obligation or restriction on the property, enforceable against successive owners. This includes any planning conditions, tree preservation orders, enforcement notices, financial charges and other charges.

It's a register of all charges recorded against a property for example financial charges, planning applications, enforcement notices etc. It's made up of 12 parts. We maintain the registers for Maidstone, Swale and Tunbridge Wells electronically.

A search is carried out when a property is advertised for sale, leased or re-mortgaged and is usually carried out by your solicitor. We'd usually get the request directly from them or your Licensed Conveyancer.

It's a search of the register and responses to the CON29R form.

The CON29R form has standard questions on it covering things like road adoption, building regulations, conservation areas and the history of a property.

To request a full search you need to complete the LLC1 and CON29 forms. You can get these from your solicitor or online from a legal stationer.

Questions 4 to 22 of the CON29O form are optional and cover things like public rights of way, village greens, common land, hazardous substances etc.

There are also additional questions you can ask about other developments near to the property being searched.

There's a fee for each additional question you ask.

After a search has been sent to us and logged onto our systems, we can't cancel it.

We don't expedite searches because the information comes from many different teams in the council. We aim to return your search results within 10 working days.

Once we've completed the search, we'll email it to you. We can only send it to the person who made the request.

A personal search is a search of the information held on the Local Land Charges Register.

You can undertake a personal search for free using our online mapping system.

To find out who owns a property or piece of land speak to the Land Registry.

We define a complaint as any 'expression of dissatisfaction' about the way in which we have provided a service.

You can make a complaint about Land Charges  by using our online complaints system.

You can get copies of documents revealed in an official search directly from the relevant department. For more information read the appendix on the back page of your search.

You can search for planning applications, including any supporting documents, comments and decision notices on our Planning Application Search page. For copies of older planning applications that aren't currently online or section 106 agreements, email planning@tunbridgewells.gov.uk.