HM Land Registry training hub
Source: gov.uk (2025-10-10)

Quick and easy access to guidance and training materials  to help you prepare and submit high-quality applications and use HM Land Registry services.

Tackling avoidable requisitions

Use our free training, tips and guidance (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-avoidable-requisitions) to help you reduce ‘avoidable’ requisitions.

Join our online workshops to avoid requisitions

We’re hosting a series of online workshops designed to help you understand why HM Land Registry issues requisitions. We’ll look at the most common reasons for requisitions and provide practical tips on how to avoid them. These workshops are perfect for professionals in the property conveyancing and legal sectors.
- HM Land Registry Application Support Workshop Tuesday 9 December 2025 (https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6a67955a-dd0d-4bdb-b400-9919ca8b6208@236309a8-284b-4e57-a7b3-fc767736f69d)
Public guidance

Visit our public guidance page (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-for-members-of-the-public) for a range of property matters including property ownership, registering property and property boundaries. This guidance is aimed primarily at members of the public and professionals who are not conveyancers.

Essentials

Our self-service training package (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-essentials) will help you with the basics – whether you’re new to conveyancing or just need a refresher. This includes working with HM Land Registry, and preparing and submitting high-quality applications.

Top 10 Tips for tip-top applications

Read our tips for improving the quality of applications sent to HM Land Registry (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/top-10-tips-for-tip-top-applications).

Guidance pages

Visit our individual guidance pages to access training materials and information on the following topics:

Practice guides

See our practice guides (https://www.gov.uk/topic/land-registration/practice-guides) for detailed information on land registration. These guides are aimed primarily at conveyancers and often deal with complex matters and use legal terms.

Commonly viewed practice guides include:
- Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests (PG19) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notices-restrictions-and-the-protection-of-third-party-interests-in-the-register)
- Execution of deeds (PG8) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/execution-of-deeds)
- First registrations (PG1) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/first-registrations)
Webinars

Visit our GoToWebinar stage (https://www.gotostage.com/channel/2c2b67c56c2b4603acac3b460bd42695) to watch live, recorded and short bite-sized webinars covering submitting digital applications, avoiding requisitions, products and services, plans, leases and first registrations. You can also watch recordings of our webinars with captions on our captioned webinar channel (https://www.gotostage.com/channel/5ba23cbe80bd4fb9bf9094950ac37f30).

Popular webinars include:
- Search of the Index Map (SIM) (https://www.gotostage.com/channel/2c2b67c56c2b4603acac3b460bd42695/recording/c1ca21641b754745a94676aa74c02972/watch)
- Restrictions – entry, removal and compliance (https://www.gotostage.com/channel/2c2b67c56c2b4603acac3b460bd42695/recording/a402953fac324d7b911bae5c1aaed1aa/watch?source=CHANNEL)
- The Title Plan (https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/6261740055229541380)
- Electronic signatures (https://www.gotostage.com/channel/2c2b67c56c2b4603acac3b460bd42695/recording/c26d8e5f72364c6aa9faca21eb50ae8b/watch)
Sign up to receive email alerts (https://customerhelp.landregistry.gov.uk/subscriptionrequest/) to make sure you hear about new training materials.

Podcasts

Visit our Soundcloud channel (https://soundcloud.com/hmlr) to hear HM Land Registry experts talk about our land-registration practices, products and services.

Download the transcripts:
- Avoiding Variations in Names podcast (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6405cb478fa8f527f6680294/Variations_in_Names_podcast__1_.odt) (ODT, 17.1 KB)
- Feedback and the form RXC podcast (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6405cd488fa8f527f4f54b6d/Feedback_and_the_form_RXC__1_.odt) (ODT, 14.1 KB)
- Digital by default podcast (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6405cd74d3bf7f25f3391164/Transcript_Digital_by_Default_.odt) (ODT, 11.7 KB)
- Practice guides (part 1) (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64cce2cdef14e60014178992/Practice_guides__part_1_.odt) (ODT, 20.4 KB)
- Practice guides (part 2) (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64cce2da995827000dc1e911/Practice_guides__part_2_.odt) (ODT, 19.2 KB)
Videos

Visit our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/hmlandregistry) for a variety of helpful videos on land registration topics .

Commonly viewed videos include:

How to complete form AP1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFQaGZYgBA)

How to complete form AS1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sy3ClOnlyU)

How to complete form TR1 (https://youtu.be/xQ5T5RqfIMg?si=1lrFWk3TujXpGIRf)

How to complete form ID1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAbszu0P6A)

Checklists

Use our checklists to help you avoid requisitions.
- Application for registered land (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/605125/Registered-land-checklist-HM-Land-Regisrty.31.03.17.pdf) (PDF, 44.8 KB, 1 page)
- Application for registered land (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/change-the-register-ap1/checklist-applications-for-registered-land) (HTML)
- Application for first registration (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743079/Checklist-FR1_HMLR_09_18.docx) (MS Word Document, 26.3 KB)
- Application for first registration (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/first-application-registration-fr1/checklist-application-for-first-registration) (HTML)
- Extension of leases: submitting an application to register the surrender and regrant of a leasehold estate (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extension-of-leases-checklist-for-submitting-an-application-to-register-the-surrender-and-regrant-of-a-leasehold-estate-pg28s1/practice-guide-28-supplement-1-extension-of-leases-checklist-for-submitting-an-application-to-register-the-surrender-and-regrant-of-a-leasehold-est) (HTML)
- Quick wins for fewer requisitions (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64086563d3bf7f25fcdb84fa/Quick_wins.odt) (ODT, 40.6 KB)
Flowcharts

Use our flowcharts to help you avoid requisitions.
- Variations in names flowchart (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6405d17ae90e0740d874e8cf/Variation_in_names_flow_chart_HM_Land_Registry.pdf) (PDF, 1.44 MB, 1 page)
- Fees flowchart (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6405d1a7d3bf7f25f813fc56/Fees_flowchart.pdf) (PDF, 106 KB, 1 page)
Feedback

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