Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information. For the calendar year (1st January - 31st December) 2024 and from 1st January 2025 to 31st August 2025, looking at local land searches (LLC1 and CON29) undertaken by your council:

1. What was the average processing time in days: 3-5 working days

2. What were the fastest and slowest processing times in each year: Not Recorded

3. How many staff members did you have processing these searches: 2

4. The number of requests received and processed each year (by month)?
Number of searches completed each month
Jan-24: 92
Feb-24: 113
Mar-24: 112
Apr-24: 130
May-24: 108
Jun-24: 117
Jul-24: 108
Aug-24: 123
Sep-24: 83
Oct-24: 140
Nov-24: 116
Dec-24: 98

Jan-25: 111
Feb-25: 94
Mar-25: 96
Apr-25: 120
May-25: 109
Jun-25: 121
Jul-25: 144
Aug-25: 77

5. The number of requests not completed within 10 working days: Not recorded

6. At the date of receiving/processing this request, the current backlog of outstanding requests and the longest case still pending:None – 1 day

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: Not migrated – no migration date as yet.