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Leaseholders - advice and information
Your lease
When someone buys a property from the council
it is sold on a long lease, which is like a long tenancy. Residents
have the right to occupation and use of the flat for a fixed number
of years.
The property can be bought and sold on the
open market during the term of the lease. In any legal documents
you will be referred to as the tenant.
What is a lease?
The two parties to the lease are you, the
leaseholder and Medway Council, the freeholder (landlord). A lease
is a contract between the leaseholder and the freeholder giving
conditional ownership for a fixed period of time. The lease that
you signed is a legal document and a binding contract, enforceable
in law, between you and us, Medway Council.
Your property plan
Your lease will contain a colour coded plan of
your property.
This will show you which areas are yours under
the terms of your lease. In general you will be recharged your
proportion of total costs for any works undertaken within the red
boundary line.
Pink - the
property
Green - any
garden land
Blue - any
outbuildings
Brown -
right of way
If the lease has been
changed there will be a deed of variation to the lease that gives
details of changes, for example structural changes, such as moving
a door.
Leasehold Advisory Service
(LEASE)
The Leasehold Advisory Service is an
executive non-departmental public body which provides free advice
on the law affecting residential leasehold property in England and
Wales. For more information visit www.lease-advice.org
Service Standards
Go to the Leaseholder service standards
leaflet on our housing leaflets page.
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