Running electricity to a lease-held garage

Spanglerscreed

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone with a bit of legal knowledge regarding leaseholds can advise me on this matter...

Basically I've recently started the joyous experience of buying a house a few months ago. It's a freehold purchase of a terraced house with a similar house on one side and a coach house on the other side with 2 garages underneath.

One of those garages comes with my property as part of the deal, but only as a leasehold as it is underneath the neighbouring coachhouse and therefore on their land. For that reason the developers haven't run any electricity to our garage due to the complications of running it onto somebody else's property. When I asked if it would be possible for me to run the electrics into the garage I was told no. What I'm wondering is whether it really is as open and closed as that or if it's just a lot of hassle they didn't want to deal with before selling me the house, and if it is doable what I'd have to do to run power into the garage in a safe and legally above board manner?

Thanks.

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.


Any decision on having electricity in the garage is a matter for the freeholder of the Coachhouse. The lease for your garage will presumably have restrictions on its use.


Apart from the safety issues, I wouldn't want the possibility of people working in a garage under my property.

Spanglerscreed

Thanks for the reply. Probably the best solution would be to save up enough to buy the coach house as well one day to rent it out then do what I want with the electrics?

undaunted

What are you wanting to do in there? Presumably you have access to this garage so if you simply ran an extension lead out to the garage over that access when you needed power would that not do the job?

Spanglerscreed

Not really an option as our garage is across from the underpass for the coach house and second garage along and running an extension to there would involve tacking a wire to the outside of my neighbour's property in some way. Also I was looking at the possibility of maybe getting a charge point for an electric car there so running mains power out there would have to be a proper job.

JC_Derby

Ask them if they'll give you a private supply with a sub meter.