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With Hackney it was a backlog. Our conveyancing solicitor is great, very efficient and proper fierce. She's actually the sister of a family friend and we've used her for a few other things since, she's our go to solicitor. If anyone could have made them do it, she could.
She even looked into sending someone physically round to the council (she's based in Warwick), no dice. This is called a 'personal search' and if this becomes an issue which could seriously hold up your purchase you can normally pay extra for one of these to speed things up.
If yours just hasn't chased it that's different, but if the local authority are saying 'no it will be this long even if you do a personal search' you won't be able to force them to, outside of taking legal action, getting your local councillor to (successfully) take action or similar.
You're preaching to the converted on not believing it can possibly actually take that long though.
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Dude, I'm not saying anyone here is wrong. It's just if I gave the same kind of bullshit in the private B2B sector, I wouldn't have a job or any customers.
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I've done searches before during the summer holidays. It's really easy and needs minimal training in the common cases but in the council I was working in, searches were done by the same people who did all the admin work for the planning dept - registering planning applications, dealing with neighbor consultations, filling a fuckton of paperwork, scheduling ads in the paper etc. Searches were done on a rough schedule, once a week or so. They took 20mins each on average I think
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I still refuse to believe it takes that amount of time to do it. It takes that long for them to get around to it, there's a difference. And if that's the case, then can be made to get around to it sooner. You just need to know how to make that happen. I would like to (foolishly) think that conveyancing solicitors might actually want to be good at their job and be able to expedite what should be a quick win for everyone. Instead of just laying back and taking it from all angles, letting the fucked up sausage machine grind along.