Leaseholders - service charges

If you are a 125-year leaseholder, we - the Council - (as your Landlord) is obliged to provide you with certain routine services and to charge you for those services.

These services include:

Emergency response service
Estate cleaning
Estate lighting - Does not include lighting for adopted public roads which run through the estates.
Garden maintenance
Estate repairs - Does not include works to adopted roads, paths and footways running through the estate.
Block repairs - The Council is not responsible for repairs or maintenance inside your flat, although the Council will carry out emergency work to prevent a problem causing either a nuisance or damage to the block. You may be charged for any work carried out inside your flat.
Block cleaning - Does not include the weekly domestic refuse collection.
Block electricity
Paladins (bins)
Lift repairs
Lift running costs
Buildings Insurance and Contribution to fund -The Council maintains a fund made partly by contributions from leaseholders instead of collecting insurance premiums on smaller repairs. This helps to keep your building insurance charges down.
Management expenses - Includes the leaseholder's share of general expenses. Also includes the cost of sending out service charge bills, and dealing with leaseholders queries.
Minor works commissioning fee - This covers technical, supervisory and administrative costs associated with maintenance works.