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Alongside this consultation LR are running another so called "consultation" titled 'Wider Powers and Local Land Charges' which if implemented will give Land Registry access to Local Authority Land Charges data and the public task of providing LLC1 searches, their intention is to undoubtedly be followed by Con29 searches, Mining, Drainage, Environmental etc allowing them to become a 'one stop shop', by April 2015, for searches as stated by Chris Grayling (The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice) in Parliament on 27th January 2014. This will result according to the consultation document and impact assessment with Land Registry becoming a monopoly supplier with at least 88% market share within 2 years, I think this used to be called nationalisation of private industry in the 1940's. Clearly this government are not into nationalisation, therefore the privatisation is inevitable. The Land Charges proposal is to fatten up the LR and make it more appealing for privatisation, eventually leading to the digitisation of conveyancing and the loss of conveyancers jobs, the likely cost in jobs around 4000 at Land Registry, around 900 at Local Authorities around 1500 in the private sector search businesses, plus all the conveyancers. The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) have started Judicial Review action against the consultation, its timescale and the proposals to introduce cost recovery charging despite this being incompatible with european legislation (EIR and PSIR). And a final point Land Registry say in their document that this idea came from the Law Society. I wonder if they were aware this would mark the end of conveyancing as we know it?