Kiwiagogoland

Oh well, the bite has been a blessing in disguise as I spent most of yesterday chasing my tail.

The land registry search in our HIPS says the road is not adopted, so the solicitor needs sight of a Section 38 and requires a Land Charges search (£73) from the County Council (CC). The CC says I only need to pay £27 for a smaller search called a Con29. I check with the solicitor and this is OK.

So I order the Con29 search and 5 minutes later get a call from the CC to say it should be free and already included in my HIPS pack. Due to the time restrictions I told them to go ahead with the search and I would sort it out from my end.

I call the estate agent, who calls the HIPS provider who says yes a Con29 is included in the HIPS. I ring HIPS provider to ask where the results of the Con29 are and where is the section 38 response. They in turn, call the CC.

It then gets more complex to explain, but the upshot is, the Con29 was not included fully as the CC did not disclose all of the information to the HIPS provider. We are paying for the search directly due to the time issues. The HIPS provider is issuing us with a refund for £27 quid we paid to the CC.

It only took 5 hours to resolve....