Add lawn to property boundary or goes to management company.

Norman_Castle

toriade said:

To answer a couple of the questions.

- There is an existing landscape design for it as with the entire estate. It appears will be carpetted with a few plants planned

- The management company will be  resident managed company.

- The blue boundary will possibly be a low timber rail fence

Unusual, save getting the mower out.

JamoLew

OldMusicGuy said:

What type of management company? If it's a residents' management company, I wouldn't feel too bad about it not being part of my plot. If it's a third party management company, no way would I let it go to them if I had the choice. 

with the knowledge I have now - I wouldn't even consider a property that was managed by a third party.
You basically pay for almost nothing apart from their own admin fees and when repairs need doing they send the bill to you after the fact.
There is not pot of money despite what the agents tell you. £400 a year per house  for 10 houses to have a 20m x 20m patch of land mown

jon81uk

If you purchase that land, will the service charge go down?
So if the management company "owns" the land, they maintain it and those costs are shared among all residents.  If you own it then you shouldn't pay the management company to look after the plants. But you will also then need to check covenants and what you can do with the land, as if you need to keep the planting the same then whats the point in you owning it.