In reply to Gary Coggon:
There is no national system for recording new routes as different areas are covered by different guidebooks, hence different groups of people. Also, there are many first ascent claims made that are either too trivial or done before. No-one is in any paid position to check this sort of thing and it can be quite a task to check, especially if a new print guidebook isn't in preparation.
UKC Logbook is the nearest thing to a national route database so logging it on here will at least get it catalogued on the correct crag. Include as much data as possible with your ascent. Referring it to any existing routes and buttresses makes tracking down possible duplications much easier. You probably won't receive an acknowledgement of this from the crag moderator but the route may go from 'unverified' to 'verified'. If it stays at 'unverified' then that may be because the moderator isn't active. There is a 'Can not be verified' status which is used where information is missing, or the claim may be thought to be too minor.
Another alternative would be to check the current guidebook and send them a report. I suspect the response to this varies from publisher to publisher. Speaking from the Rockfax point of view I would just point you at the UKC Logbook as above, but I know other producers do have a central location for new route claims.
Alan