Help When Considering Making Property Alterations
The Freeholder/Freehold Company has a duty to protect the structural integrity of the building and the services installations within from overload or failure. This duty is usually delegated to the agent who is appointed to uphold the lessee's covenants within their lease.
Alterations can include any of the following actions and to protect the interests of all in the building it is not for the lessee to determine whether their proposed works are alterations but the responsibility of the Freeholder/Freehold Company and their advisers.
Do I Need a Licence to Alter?
If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, then a License to Alter is required.
- Will you proposed alterations affect any face of the building (changing a window/door, putting a skylight in etc...)
- Will you proposed alterations cut through any wall?
- Will you proposed alterations remove any part of any wall (internal, external or partition wall)?
- Will you proposed alterations increase the amount of waste water/sewerage leaving the flat? (E.g. new kitchen, bathroom, toilet, show etc...)
- Will you proposed alterations involve any modification to a communal service? (eg. Removing a radiator attached to a communal heating system, re-routing a communal waste pipe.)
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