Unilateral Application lodged againts my property in error

paye

Hi, 

So this morning I received an alert notification  from HM Land Registery that some sort of an application was lodged againts my property. Upon investigating this for best part of the day, it appears a law firm mistakenly  submitted a unilateral application against my property.

The law firm in question  have apologiesd and have confirmed that they have contacted the land registery department to withdraw the application immediatley. 

Couple questions I have; 

What is a unilateral application,  am I correct in assuming it's some sort of a charge againts a property? 

Even though the law firm are in the process of  putting this right, should I be worried about any adverse effect it may have on me in the future? 

Should I request a copy of my title deeds from this law firm once it has been confirmed the application has been withdrawn? 

is this a common mistake which is made?

Is there anything else I should do? 


The law firm did say a junior member of the team incorrectly inputted the incorect details and will forward confirmation from the Land Registery department once they receive confirmation the application has been withdrawn. 

MultiFuelBurner

Paging   @Land_Registry

Keep_pedalling

Some info here.

https://www.parachutelaw.co.uk/news/property/unilateral-notice-land-registry#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20Land%20Registry,property%20by%20a%20third%20party.

it should not cause you any adverse effect.

paye

Keep_pedalling said:

Some info here.

https://www.parachutelaw.co.uk/news/property/unilateral-notice-land-registry#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20Land%20Registry,property%20by%20a%20third%20party.

it should not cause you any adverse effect.

thank you for the link, I will check this out. 

GDB2222

I assume an application form has been sent to the LR, but no action has yet been taken by the LR, and the application has been withdrawn?

If that is the case, I don’t think there can be any adverse effects.

You have my sympathy, though, as this must have been very upsetting.

paye

GDB2222 said:

I assume an application form has been sent to the LR, but no action has yet been taken by the LR, and the application has been withdrawn?

If that is the case, I don’t think there can be any adverse effects.

You have my sympathy, though, as this must have been very upsetting.

Thanks for your post. 

Seems like once they lodged the application  I received an instant email alert notifying me of the proposed change.
From what the Law firm director was explaining, they are hoping L.R processes  the withdrawal  request 
instead of processing the intial application.

It was a shock as I didn't belive that this types of mistake can  happen, thank god I had subscribed  to the the L.R notification service, if I hadn't I would never had known and if I decided to sell in the future  or remortgage it would have been a nightmare trying to sort it out.  
 

TBagpuss

You would have found out once the application was processed as details would be sent to you to the address held by the land registry for serving notices, being on the alert system means you found out more quickly but you would have been served and had the opportunity to challenge it even iif you weren't on the alert and indeed even if it had been correctly applied for! 
They are dealing with it to remedy it and you shouldn't suffer any adverse effects.

If you were planning to remortgage or sell in the immediate future then you could  provide copies of their correspondence confirming it is an error which they are resolving to any relevant party . You cancertainly ask that they provide you with proof that it's been withdrawn.