Help on old convenant of ex-council house

gemma.zhang

Dear Wise Friends, 


We're in the process of buying an ex-council house and would like to get my head around convenants. 
The house is one of the many houses on the estate that used to belong to local council to host council tenants back in 70's. The house (also all others on the estate) was sold to its tenants in 70's under market values, then passed on from seller's parents to the seller. Neighbourhood has changed a lot since, and mostly are owned privately.  

Q1. We've seen below in the convenant, it's slighly worrying - does it mean we have to share the cost of any maintenant / repair costs with owners ( adjoining owners) or in particularly pay expense to the council ? What does it mean to us?  Are these just old convenants we don't need to worry too much, or potentialy we might be liable to large sums of repair fees , i.e. shareing costs of laying the drainage / water pipes for the whole street etc? 


Q2. Anyone pls help me understand this ? 
 
Majority of this old convenats are surrounding the conditions of reselling this property within 5 years after it was sold by council. Don't think it's applicable to us anymore. 
Just wondering how many of these still apply how many I can totally disgard.  Understand I need to speak to my solicitor, who has already reached out to seller in regards to Q1 as if/how much have been paid in the past.

Quite keen to hear your experience. Thanks! 

user1977

Q1 means that if there is anything shared between the property and other houses, you pay a proportion of the maintenance costs. I wouldn't expect it to mean much other than for party walls i.e. those separating the property from its immediate neighbours.

Q2 looks like just archaic legalese to say you're not entitled to demand the council produces their titles for the larger estate. Doesn't matter (especially if the house now has a registered title).

gemma.zhang

Thanks!
if the 1st only refers to its neighbouring properties that makes sense. 

I am more worried about sharing large cost, likes of - relaying road, pipes, drainages of the whole estate. As is Terrance property, all neighbouring properties in that one session has shared drainages pipes etc.

user1977

It's very unlikely that the road or pipes (beyond the property boundaries) are privately maintained (though that is something your solicitor would be checking as standard). The title conditions are standard, there's nothing there to be concerned about.

FreeBear

gemma.zhang said: I am more worried about sharing large cost, likes of - relaying road, pipes, drainages of the whole estate. As is Terrance property, all neighbouring properties in that one session has shared drainages pipes etc.

Your local water company will be responsible for any shared drains, so no need to worry about that. Other utilities will be down to the respective companies (as will any maintenance costs).

Roads & public pavements will come under the local council budget, and costs for maintenance is covered by your council tax.

gemma.zhang

Thanks everyone for your kind helps! It has cleared up my worries while waiting for clarifications from sellers/solicitors.