Land registry Map Search snapshot address error

Bails27

Hi, 
     We are in the process of selling and moving home. However our buyer’s solicitor states they can’t get the correct search records from our local council. It transpires although the land registry NK number for our house (number 27) is correct when looking at the map, the snapshot has been associated to our neighbours (number 29) AND vice versa! So when the buyers solicitor requests searches for number 27 they get number 29! 

We have checked with land registry 5 months ago who told us they corrected their records, and council today say they will change theirs, but seems land registry still need to swap over addresses associated with the correct NK numbers? 

Anyone known how to correct this before? 

user1977

I would have thought the council just use the correct postal addresses e.g. if they served a compulsory repair notice on number 27, that's how it would appear on their records, so that's the address you do the local search against. They won't care what the Land Registry call it.

BarelySentientAI

Addresses mean little to the LR - at least that's how I understand it.

The title has a number and a plan.  The plan determines what land is covered by the title number, regardless of what any address search, OS map, or napkin drawing with crayon says.

You'll find quite a large number of plans have the "wrong" address on - many still have the developer's plot number, "land off X street" and things like that.

Land registry title numbers mean little to the council - they use street addresses usually.  I've never received a council tax demand for "Title NK6138240".

Buyer's solicitor needs to learn how to search better.