Guidance

Avoid HM Land Registry requisitions: lodging applications electronically

Tips and video on how to avoid requisitions about errors in lodging applications electronically.

• From: HM Land Registry
• Published: 7 October 2016

Applies to England and Wales

Tips

Customers who use these online services do not always lodge applications correctly. We receive several applications with errors each day which can lead to a delay in registration completion. The most common problems are:

• poor quality scanned images
• multiple documents in one scanned file
• deed plan lodged as a separate attachment
• documents not certified
• documents with missing pages or otherwise incomplete or with discrepancies have to be returned for amendment
• applications made against the wrong title

Use our guide on how to lodge applications electronically.

Find out about our electronic document registration service to submit documents and reduce your end-to-end processing times.

Watch our video about errors in lodging applications electronically

How to avoid HM Land Registry requisitions: Errors in lodging applications electronically

Video playlist: How to avoid HM Land Registry requisitions

Further information

Read more information in:

• guides on how to use our portal
• practice guide 50: requisition and cancellation procedures.
• HM Land Registry requisitions

Published 7 October 2016