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leasehold act: still need freeholders permission for everything?
pigeonpie
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Does anyone have a brief guide to the recent leaseholders act? We are possibly buying and the freeholder is a complete nightmare. He will not give the necessary consents as it takes up 20 seconds of his precious time. In the meantime, we can't buy without them. We also want to know ultimately how to turn this into s.o. freehold, once the flats are all privately owned. Need to know also how much he can reasonably ask for consents (ie to put in a velux) as see him asking for daft amounts. He never mends anything either and there's no sinking fund (just a sinking feeling, but nothing else is on the market now and we are so tired of renting).
The consents include permission to apply for more windows as there aren't enough - one window serves a huge room. Plus essential permission to keep our pets, without which we can't buy here. Can that be refused? (we have cats, but in due course, would possibly like a smallish dawg).
I would like to lobby someone (who?) to have the law here brought in line with that in Europe (France, Belgium etc) where it is the right of any owner to keep pets as long as they don't cause mayhem in the common areas, bark all day and night, bite other residents & are kept on leash or in a cat box in common areas etc. So called animal loving country and I still have to beg the freeholder to keep my elderly kitties.
Anyone else out there would like to see the law changed? I've run a lobby group before and wouldn't mind having a go.
The consents include permission to apply for more windows as there aren't enough - one window serves a huge room. Plus essential permission to keep our pets, without which we can't buy here. Can that be refused? (we have cats, but in due course, would possibly like a smallish dawg).
I would like to lobby someone (who?) to have the law here brought in line with that in Europe (France, Belgium etc) where it is the right of any owner to keep pets as long as they don't cause mayhem in the common areas, bark all day and night, bite other residents & are kept on leash or in a cat box in common areas etc. So called animal loving country and I still have to beg the freeholder to keep my elderly kitties.
Anyone else out there would like to see the law changed? I've run a lobby group before and wouldn't mind having a go.
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