Dear Charlie, As ever many thanks for the last response - it was very helpful.

I was wondering if you could assist with the following, as part of a capital grants programme an applicant wants to purchase an industrial unit beside its existing location for the purposes of expansion. However there is an issue:-

There is a charge on the property in question and I presume that we can find out that charge if it was registered to a company through Companies House - is that correct? But in this case the property is owned by an individual - how does one finds out if an industrial property has a charge on it when owned by an individual? This forms part of the funding bodies eligibility criteria, and let me stress I am not trying to find out private information but how to access information available in the public domain.