Certificate of lawfulness

westv

davidmcn wrote: »

I'm impressed that a search has dug up planning records from 50 years ago.

I'm impressed the OP had 8 years of utility bills available.

marvel01

Thanks for the replies.
I am entirely sure who " they" are as the buyers solicitor isn't very responsive. We believe it is the lender and I wonder if it couldn't be resolved if someone just had a sensible conversation with them to explain that even planning have said it is totally unnecessary but our buyers don't appear to chase up or queries with either the solicitor or lender.
The agent (for their £4000) fees does not even have the courtesy to return our phone calls.
Their solicitor is a local one and not a conveyancing firm.
The fee for the certificate is £395 and not under 200 as the op said. It isn't the money that is the most annoying tbh, it's the fact they ask for proofs such as utility bills(yes my husband kept them as he is a dreadful hoarder) then they are not satisfied and ask for indemnity which we agree to. They then wait until exchange before asking for certificate which would set us back 8 weeks!
I wonder is we will get 8 weeks down the line and they then ask for something else.
Grrrr I am extremely patient but am now at the end of my tether with this house selling business!
We had other buyers before these people who had their chain fall through so for us it's been six months of hassles.

marvel01

And yes the indemnity will be invalid now as we have spoken to planning (at their request) so that may alter the situation now

davidmcn

marvel01 wrote: »

We believe it is the lender

Almost certainly not, nobody at the lender will have a clue about planning law. It might be the solicitor unhelpfully saying something to the lender like "we've found this, we think it might be a risk, do you want us to do something about it like get an indemnity policy?" to which the lender would probably reply "it's your job to get rid of any risks so if you think you need to get a policy then do so".

Whereas the solicitor should realise it isn't a risk and they shouldn't be bothering the lender about it.