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.

Leasehold Management Team

E-mail:

housing@thanet.gov.uk

Tel: 01843 577268

Fax: 01843 577340