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Service charges

As a leaseholder you will have to pay for some communal charges. These vary and not all leaseholders will have to pay all these service charges .

You need to look at your actual lease document to see which charges you will have to pay. They will be explained in the third or fourth schedule of your lease agreement depending on the age of your lease.

The service charge period runs from 1st April to 31st March each year. You will receive an estimated invoice in April of each year followed by an actual invoice in September of the next year.

For any service stated in your lease, you will have to pay a proportion of the cost. The amount of this will depend on how many flats are in your block and how expensive the total repair is. They may vary from year to year.

Example: Our electricity invoices for your block came to £200 between 1st April 2007 and 31st March 2008. There are four flats in a block. Therefore, the service charge for communal electricity would be £50 per leaseholder.

Non-payment

If you do not pay or agree repayment terms on all your charges within the time stated on your invoice we may have to take legal action against you.

The measures we can take include:

• loss of your lease
• County Court Judgements (CCJs)
• your arrears registered your mortgage or property
• your arrears sent to a debt collection agency for recovery

Pay your service charges

The Leaseholder and Rechargeable Repairs Team (LRRT) took over the management of service charge arrears from October 2009. So, to pay your service charges fpr the period 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009, you need to arrange payment with the LRRT.

You can now you can pay all your service charges by direct debit. Download our form.

Go to the summary of charges.