HM Land Registry training hub

Tackling avoidable requisitions

Use our free training, tips and guidance to help you reduce ‘avoidable’ requisitions.

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Public guidance

Visit our public guidance page for a range of property matters including property ownership, registering property and property boundaries. This guidance is aimed primarily at members of the public and professionals who are not conveyancers.

Essentials

Our self-service training package will help you with the basics – whether you’re new to conveyancing or just need a refresher. This includes working with HM Land Registry, and preparing and submitting high-quality applications.

Top 10 Tips for tip-top applications

Read our tips for improving the quality of applications sent to HM Land Registry.

Guidance pages

Visit our individual guidance pages to access training materials and information on the following topics:

Business Gateway	Help for business customers who use a case management system to access conveyancing services through Business Gateway.
Digital applications	Help for business customers to submit applications digitally.
Digital Registration Service	Help for business customers to submit applications digitally using the HM Land Registry portal.
Execution of deeds	How to ensure deeds are validly executed before they are submitted with applications for registration.
Fees	Help with calculating the correct fee for HM Land Registry applications and services.
First registrations	Help with registering unregistered land for the first time, including registering land when deeds are lost or destroyed.
Forms	Help with downloading and using the correct forms for your application.
Identity	Help with the identity requirements for applications.
Information Services	How to access information from the Land Register and apply for searches.
Leases	Help with registering and noting leases.
Plans	How to lodge quality plans with your application.
Portal	Help for business customers to access the HM Land Registry portal.
Price Paid Data – how to access	How to get information about Price Paid Data.
Register of Overseas Entities – registration and verification	Technical guidance for understanding the Register of Overseas Entities and the requirements it places on overseas entities that own land within the UK.
Requisitions	How to avoid requisitions on applications and what happens when they need to be raised.
Restrictions	How to register new restrictions and deal with existing restrictions in the register.
Specialist support services	How to access guidance on HM Land Registry’s specialist support services.
Transaction Data	How to access information about the volume and type of applications completed by HM Land Registry each month.
Variations in names	How to avoid requisitions about variations between names in the register, application forms and deeds submitted for registration.

Practice guides

See our practice guides for detailed information on land registration. These guides are aimed primarily at conveyancers and often deal with complex matters and use legal terms.

Commonly viewed practice guides include:

• Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests (PG19)
• Execution of deeds (PG8)
• First registrations (PG1)

Webinars

Visit our GoToWebinar stage to watch live, recorded and short bite-sized webinars covering submitting digital applications, avoiding requisitions, products and services, plans, leases and first registrations. You can also watch recordings of our webinars with captions on our captioned webinar channel.

Popular webinars include:

• Search of the Index Map (SIM)
• Restrictions – entry, removal and compliance
• Introducing form RXC
• Electronic signatures

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Podcasts

Visit our Soundcloud channel to hear HM Land Registry experts talk about our land-registration practices, products and services.

Download the transcripts:

• Avoiding Variations in Names podcast (ODT, 17.1 KB)
• Feedback and the form RXC podcast (ODT, 14.1 KB)
• Digital by default podcast (ODT, 11.7 KB)
• Practice guides (part 1) (ODT, 20.4 KB)
• Practice guides (part 2) (ODT, 19.2 KB)

Videos

Visit our YouTube channel for a variety of helpful videos on land registration topics .

Commonly viewed videos include:

• How to complete form AP1

• How to complete form AS1

• How to complete form TR1

• How to complete form ID1

Checklists

Use our checklists to help you avoid requisitions.

• Application for registered land (PDF, 44.8 KB, 1 page)
• Application for registered land (HTML)
• Application for first registration (MS Word Document, 26.3 KB)
• Application for first registration (HTML)
• Extension of leases: submitting an application to register the surrender and regrant of a leasehold estate (HTML)
• Quick wins for fewer requisitions (ODT, 40.6 KB)

Flowcharts

Use our flowcharts to help you avoid requisitions.

• Variations in names flowchart (PDF, 1.44 MB, 1 page)
• Fees flowchart (PDF, 106 KB, 1 page)

Feedback

We really appreciate your comments, ideas and suggestions. So, if you have any feedback for us about this page or any suggestions for training topics and materials you’d like us to provide, please send an email to the team at training@landregistry.gov.uk or complete our survey.

Wherever possible, your comments will be used to improve our guidance.