Rights and Responsibilities
When you become a Leaseholder you have certain rights and responsibilities to keep to, and we as Landlord also have rights and responsibilities to keep to. The full and exact details are shown in your lease but here are a few general rules from it.
Leaseholder Rights and Responsibilities
- Keep your home in good condition and repair.
- Pay towards any work that has been done by the Council to keep the block in a liveable state.
- Pay your ground rent
- Pay your share of the insurance for your property.
- Repay any discount to the Council when you sell your property.
- Not sub-let your property without letting the Council, Leasehold Management Team, know about it in writing.
- Not cause any annoyance or inconvenience to your neighbours.
- Not make any alterations to the structure of the property without written consent from the Council, this includes new windows or external doors.
- Not keep pets.
- Not bring any kind of potentially explosive material into your property or block, this includes bottled petroleum and gas.
- Not run any kind of business or trade from your property unless you have got written consent from the Council.
Landlords Rights
- To run and maintain electricity cables, water or gas pipes through your property from any part of the estate or block.
- To enter and stay in your property for any reasonable amount of time to let us carry out any work to the structure of the building. We must let you know about this in advance but we can enter straight away if there is an emergency.
- To extend or carry out alterations to the block.
Landlords Responsibilities
- We must keep the structure of the building in good repair and condition.
- We must let you know about any major works that are going to be carried out to the building before they are started.
- We must arrange insurance for the block of flats or maisonettes.
If you would like to talk to anyone about these rights and responsibilities you can contact the Leasehold Management Team.