Property search timescales by local authority
Council search turnaround times vary wildly across the UK — and the official figure isn't always the fastest way to get your answers. Pick your local authority below for current timescales, the regulated search alternative, and the environmental risks specific to your area.
East Midlands
- Amber Valley
- Ashfield
- Bassetlaw
- Blaby
- Bolsover
- Boston
- Broxtowe
- Charnwood
- Chesterfield
- Corby
- Daventry
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- East Lindsey
- East Northamptonshire
- Erewash
- Gedling
- Harborough
- High Peak
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Kettering
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Mansfield
- Melton
- Newark and Sherwood
- North East Derbyshire
- North Kesteven
- North West Leicestershire
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Oadby and Wigston
- Rushcliffe
- Rutland
- South Derbyshire
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- South Northamptonshire
- Wellingborough
- West Lindsey
East of England
- Babergh
- Basildon
- Bedford
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brentwood
- Broadland
- Broxbourne
- Cambridge
- Castle Point
- Central Bedfordshire
- Chelmsford
- Colchester
- Dacorum
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Hertfordshire
- East Suffolk Coastal
- Epping Forest
- Fenland
- Great Yarmouth
- Harlow
- Hertsmere
- Huntingdonshire
- Ipswich
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Luton
- Maldon
- Mid Suffolk
- North Hertfordshire
- North Norfolk
- Norwich
- Peterborough
- Rochford
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Norfolk
- Southend-on-Sea
- St. Albans
- Stevenage
- Tendring
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Uttlesford
- Watford
- Waveney
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Suffolk
London
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- City of London
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
North East
North West
- Allerdale
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Bolton
- Burnley
- Bury
- Carlisle
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Chorley
- Copeland
- Eden
- Fylde
- Halton
- Hyndburn
- Knowsley
- Lancaster
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Oldham
- Pendle
- Preston
- Ribble Valley
- Rochdale
- Rossendale
- Salford
- Sefton
- South Lakeland
- South Ribble
- St. Helens
- Stockport
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Warrington
- West Lancashire
- Wigan
- Wirral
- Wyre
South East
- Adur
- Arun
- Ashford
- Aylesbury Vale
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bracknell Forest
- Brighton and Hove
- Canterbury
- Cherwell
- Chichester
- Chiltern
- Crawley
- Dartford
- Dover
- East Hampshire
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Elmbridge
- Epsom and Ewell
- Fareham
- Folkstone & Hythe
- Gosport
- Gravesham
- Guildford
- Hart
- Hastings
- Havant
- Horsham
- Isle of Wight
- Lewes
- Maidstone
- Medway
- Mid Sussex
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Oxford
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Reigate and Banstead
- Rother
- Runnymede
- Rushmoor
- Sevenoaks
- Slough
- South Buckinghamshire
- South Oxfordshire
- Southampton
- Spelthorne
- Surrey Heath
- Swale
- Tandridge
- Test Valley
- Thanet
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Tunbridge Wells
- Vale of White Horse
- Waverley
- Wealden
- West Berkshire
- West Oxfordshire
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worthing
- Wycombe
South West
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bournemouth
- Bristol
- Cheltenham
- Christchurch
- Cornwall
- Cotswold
- East Devon
- East Dorset
- Exeter
- Forest of Dean
- Gloucester
- Isles of Scilly
- Mendip
- Mid Devon
- North Devon
- North Dorset
- North Somerset
- Plymouth
- Poole
- Purbeck
- Sedgemoor
- Somerset West and Taunton Council
- South Gloucestershire
- South Hams
- South Somerset
- Stroud
- Swindon
- Teignbridge
- Tewkesbury
- Torbay
- Torridge
- West Devon
- West Dorset
- Weymouth and Portland
- Wiltshire
Wales
West Midlands
- Birmingham
- Bromsgrove
- Cannock Chase
- Coventry
- Dudley
- East Staffordshire
- Herefordshire
- Lichfield
- Malvern Hills
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- North Warwickshire
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Redditch
- Rugby
- Sandwell
- Shropshire
- Solihull
- South Staffordshire
- Stafford
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Tamworth
- Telford and Wrekin
- Walsall
- Warwick
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Wychavon
- Wyre Forest