Nearly all searches reveal little, and do not guarantee very much, but what is occasionally revealed makes all local searches worthwhile.
Searches have a limited scope.
They will not, for example, revealing planning applications relating to neighbouring land, nor the details of a planning application, or whether a newly built house accords with the permission under which it was built. They cannot reveal decisions which a local authority may be about to make. If you have any particular questions or concerns about the property, you must let us know as soon as possible, so that we can take it up with the local authority. If, as a seller you have asked us to carry out a local search, to save time, then make sure you tell your buyer, so he does not arrange one himself. If you have a buyer no time will be saved, and if you do not, then you do not know whether it will have expired before one is found.