Leaseholders rights and
responsibilities
Your rights
You have the right, along with any other person going to or from
your home, to:
- Use any part of the estate or block that provides access to or
away from your home
- Have access to a water and electricity supply for your flat or
maisonette
- Live peacefully without suffering any nuisance, assault or
harassment from your neighbours
- To sublet the property
Your responsibilities
Your exact responsibilities depend on what is shown in your
lease. However, your general responsibilities are to:
- Pay a service charge, which will be a percentage of our costs
of managing and maintaining the block
- Pay ground rent (typically £10 per year), insurance and all
other charges for which you are liable
- Repay the required amount of discount if you sell the property
within three or five years
Repairs
- Keep your home in good repair and condition
- Not to carry out any structural alterations or improvements to
your home without our written permission beforehand
Your home
- Use your home only as a single private flat for residential
use
- Get our written permission to put up an outside aerial or other
television / radio-receiving device
- Avoid annoying your neighbours or causing an inconvenience
- Make sure that you do not bring bottled petroleum gas (for
example Calor gas cylinders) or any other potentially explosive
material into your flat or maisonette or anywhere in the building
or estate.