Find out if your property is affected by public rights of way, common land, a town or village green, or a landowner declaration

This service is for

CON29 Search requests to enable members of the public, landowners, solicitors and developers to find out if Public Rights of Way, Common Land, Town and Village Greens, and Landowner Declarations affect their property.  Please read carefully before proceeding.

There are two stages to submitting your search:

Step 1 - Submit a written request and copies of documents

You must confirm the service you require and submit your contact and site details and any additional requirements with a location/extent plan for one location. Upon receiving all required details we will confirm a service fee quote.

Step 2 - Payment of search request and copies of documents

After receipt of our search fee quote, you must confirm the request by submitting our quoted reference number, the matching agreed fee, along with your card payment details.

Please note we are no longer able to accept BACs payments for searches.

You will need

• Your contact details, including email address, postal address and telephone number. 
• The full address and postcode of the search site, plus a grid reference for new developments or remote locations. 
• A highlighted Title Plan or annotated Ordnance Survey extract showing the search area. Include nearby roads and landmarks to help us confirm the exact location. We cannot accept new development plans for accuracy reasons. 
• Any extra information we need, such as path widths for PROW searches or Common Land and Village Green references for copy document requests. 
• If your plan includes more than one separate parcel of land, you must submit a separate search request for each parcel. 
• Each search request must relate to one clearly identified parcel of land. You can label each parcel on the plan, for example 1, 2, 3, and submit a separate request for each labelled parcel with a copy of the numbered plan. 
• If the parcels are close together and connected, we may treat them as one parcel. In this case, you only need to submit one search request, and the links between the parcels will be included in the search results.

What will happen next

We will process your request and provide our response. If you submit multiple separate parcels of land in one search request, we will reject the request and ask you to resubmit each parcel separately. 

Standard search requests covering up to a 2km square usually take 3 to 5 working days from receipt of payment, depending on service demand. 

Once you have received a quote with a Reference number, you can select the Payment of search request and copies of documents option on the website.

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Alternative ways to do this

If you have any questions, contact the Countryside Access Searches team:

Telephone: 0115 977 5747 or 0115 854 6496 

Email: [email protected] 

Mail: 

Countryside Access Team

County Hall 

Loughborough Road 

West Bridgford 

Nottingham 

NG2 7QP