Help - Estate Management Charge Still Applies After Council Adoption?

eidand

daveyjp wrote: »

No one is obliged to buy these houses. I wouldn't.

same, I am in the market for a bigger house, but no way in hell I'd touch a new build or something has was a new built a few years ago. One only has to read to everything, check the unregulated charges and everything else to see the many cracks. Too many issues with these things

NeilCr

eidand wrote: »

same, I am in the market for a bigger house, but no way in hell I'd touch a new build or something has was a new built a few years ago. One only has to read to everything, check the unregulated charges and everything else to see the many cracks. Too many issues with these things

I've bought two with no problems - and had no problems going forward

The key for me is that there is a Residents Management Company (both my estates have/had them). I wouldn't buy with a freeholder or builder pulling the strings

RelievedSheff

The management charge will be for more than just the roads. You need to read your contract you signed when you bought the property to explain in full detail what it covers.

The roads on new estates are often adopted in phases rather than all at once. This reduces the bond amount that the developers have to pay to the local authority.

It is worth noting to some other contributors of this post that not all new build estates come with these management charges. The estate in Bassetlaw that we bought on last year has no estate charges, all highways and green spaces, of which there are many are to be adopted by the local authority. So if that is your only reason for not buying new build then you really need to do more research!

diggingdude

If we all said we wouldn't buy them there would be problems with a growing population and a lack of old housing.

ethank

diggingdude wrote: »

Whilst it won't make any difference, people should also write to their MP pointing out the unfairness of councils meeting their housing obligations by having companies build houses which councils can charge council tax for but not supply equal services for that money.

It is unfair I think, but many council tax payers would not want the additional services to be provided by the council as then council tax precept would need to go up.

Sachs

daveyjp wrote: »

No one is obliged to buy these houses. I wouldn't.

No one is obliged to buy the extended warranty on a toaster but those are still regulated.

ashe

"We pay full council tax, even though our kids have grown up and don’t use the local schools any more. We don’t use the social housing department at the local council, nor have our kids been taken into care. It’s totally unfair that we pay full council tax just to get our bins emptied"

Sorry but thats rubbish - council tax pays for all sorts of things and isn't supposed to be a PAYG fee for the ones you use that year. It pays for society as a whole, but even taking that out of the equation there will be roads you drive/walk/cycle on , you may need adult social care at some stage in your life, there are libraries available to you and so on, and there are council services to be ran beyond refuse removal such as recycling, arboreal/green verge management, pest control etc.

Everyone pays, everyone benefits, its up to you how much value you take out of those services but they are there for you if you want to use them.

davidmcn

ashe wrote: »

"We pay full council tax, even though our kids have grown up and don’t use the local schools any more. We don’t use the social housing department at the local council, nor have our kids been taken into care. It’s totally unfair that we pay full council tax just to get our bins emptied"

Sorry but thats rubbish - council tax pays for all sorts of things and isn't supposed to be a PAYG fee for the ones you use that year.

I suspect you may need to recalibrate your irony detector