Leaseholder permission for a woodburner?

G_M

duggo1 wrote: »

Daft question maybe but has anyone ever been prevented from installing a woodburner due to restrictive covenants in their title deeds?
As the Land Registry rep said: not directly but indirectly yes.
As we are leaseholders we are supposed to ask our leaseholder before we alter the property.
?? What? you have to ask yourself? OK then, ask. Then tell yourself "yes"! :T I assume you mean freeholder)

We phoned to check if it was ok with them, and they said we would need to check our deeds to ensure it was allowed,
Well - check. If you quote here the terms of your lease (note: this is not the same as the Title at the Land registry), we can give a view on its meaning.

and were going to charge us £99 for the privilege. (Or free if we did it ourselves!)well - guess which I'd advise....

I've downloaded our register title from the land registryWhy? You need to check your LEASE and can't see anything in the restrictive covenants re woodburners, but I'm not sure if there is something else I should check, Yes or am I and our leaseholders So who are you? Not the leaseholder...:mad:being paranoid, and deeds (Lease) would never prohibit a woodburner?
Yes it could

We don't have a chimney!

So how do you plan to install a wood burner. I am
a) genuinely interested and
b) suspicious you may be planning structural alterations which almost certainly require freeholder permission.

duggo1

Thanks g-m. It was my OH who spoke to them the first time, and he obviously misunderstood. It is the lease they want to check, but we were never given a copy when we bought the house.
The alterations would be to install a twin walled flue which alters the outside appearance of the house, which they say they have to check if it is permitted in our lease.

Sorry for being vague on this, but I'm scottish so quite new to this system.

G_M

Did you use a solicitor for your purchase? Either he did not ask for/receive the lease, in which case he was seriously out of order. Pants down and spank hard!

Or he got it, but failed to give it to you (light smack on the trousers).

Or he sent it to you to review, you sent it back, and have now forgotten (your turn for a spanking!)

Try asking him for a copy?

So in answer to your original Q:

Leaseholder permission for a woodburner?

No, it's not the woodburner as such that needs permission (and the lease is highly unlikely to mention woodburners), it is the related alterations.