What information is available from an NLIS channel?
Almost anything you need to know about a property can be obtained electronically through NLIS via one of the NLIS Licensed Channels. In fact, over 150 different search products are available. Full details can be obtained by contacting any of the NLIS licensed channels, but here are the main search categories:
- Local Authority (LLC1, CON29R, CON29O)
- Land Registry (a wide 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)
- Specialty searches (radon, clay, tin mining, limestone, gypsum, Cheshire Brine, Cornish Tin, Chancel Repairs)
- Company searches