Almost anything you need to know about a property - whether you're a potential buyer or a seller thinking about what you may need to provide in the new Home Information Packs - can be obtained electronically through NLIS via one of the NLIS Licensed Channels.  In fact, over 60 different searches are available.  Comprehensive listings can be found by contacting any of the NLIS Licensed Channels, but here are the main search categories:

Local Authority (LLC1, CON29R, CON29O [incl Q22 which replaces the CR21 from 1 August] and the CR21 [the latter will cease on the 1 August])

Land Registry (a whole range of searches are available)

Water utilities (drainage and water CON29DW)

Coal Authority (mining)

Environment Agency (flooding)

Forestry Commission

Highways Agency (road building and maintenance)

Electricity (national grid)

Gas (pipelines)

Telecommunications (cabling)

London Transport (London Underground and Docklands Light Railway)

Civil Aviation Authority (airports)

British Waterways (canals)

Ordnance Survey (maps and plans)

Speciality searches (radon, clay, tin mining, limestone, gypsum, Cheshire Brine, Cornish Tin, Chancel Repairs)

Company searches

To buy an NLIS search please visit our How to buy a search page.

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