Stuck in the middle.

Trying to get a remortgage, the bank has assigned us a solicitor, sol says I must get this lease search, pay up £80. I've never had to get one of these searches with previous remortgages so I query with the bank. "we don't need that search tell the solicitor not to bother" I go back to the sols, "we'll only cancel the search if your bank tells us in writing" back to the bank, "we won't initiate contact with the solicitors they have to ask us" Guess what the solicitors say yep "we work on the banks behalf so we won't request not to do a search" ARRRRRRRGGGHHH!