Reasons Land Registry reject applications
“Land Registry only rejects applications that have no prospect of being completed as they stand and also in cases where identity confirmation is required and has not been given or is incomplete and where a previously cancelled application has been re-lodged without the reasons for cancellation having been addressed.
“Very few applications are rejected out of the overall intake of registration applications received. About 0.85% of applications are rejected currently. That works out to approximately 165 applications every working day.
“From 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2016, Land Registry rejected a total of 41,850 applications. The following table shows a breakdown of the reasons for rejection based on the rejection letter templates used.”
| Defective application, | 23,090 |
| Identity information not supplied for all parties by conveyancer, | 10,087 |
| Defective application fees retained can be credited when resubmitted, | 4,841 |
| eDRS – multi title application – incorrect or missing title, | 802 |
| Defective application – Prescribed Clauses Lease, | 498 |
| UN1 or AN1 lodged but interest can only be protected by a restriction, | 426 |
| Fee not paid after telephone request, | 413 |
| Identity information not supplied for all parties by layperson, | 408 |
| No evidence of identity lodged by layperson, | 390 |
| RX4 (withdrawal) lodged instead of RX3 (cancellation), | 198 |
| Rejected application – notification to applicant, | 94 |
| Identity information on application form not completed by layperson, | 90 |
| Transfer Poor Or No Plan, | 88 |
| Rejected application – notification to registered proprietor | 81 |
| Section B of identity form not completed by conveyancer or citizen, | 78 |
| No evidence of identity lodged by conveyancer, | 56 |
| Defective application – Prescribed clauses lease, variation/incorporated document, | 55 |
| Forms – old version used after 9 Feb 2009, | 23 |
| New forms – wrong forms used, | 20 |
| Rejection letter – commonhold, | 20 |
| Caution application lodged after 13 October 2003, | 19 |
| Application or enquiry received on or after 13/10/2003, | 15 |
| EX1 application rejected – unsatisfactory grounds for exemption, | 15 |
| Plan based on OS map preferred, | 11 |
| Forms – old version of AP1, FR1 or DS2 used after 9 November 2008, | 10 |
| Rejected application – notification to charge, | 10 |
| Rejected application –– to person entitled to be notified, | 4 |
| Rejected application – notification to superior lessor, | 3 |
| Identity information on application form not completed by conveyancer, | 2 |
| Telecommunication agreement not being registered or noted as a lease, | 2 |
| Forms – Bulk application – old version of AP1, FR1 or DS2 used after 9 Nov 2008, | 1 |
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