St Martins TRA

Leaseholders have the right to see receipts to justify their service charges.  Please use this form to demand them

We’ve had four public meetings for the benefit of leaseholders:

• A meeting with the Leasehold Advisory Service in January 2015, minutes here .
• A meeting with Metropolitan Leaseholder Services in April 2016, minutes here .
• A meeting with the Leasehold Advisory Service in September 2019, minutes here.  We covered section 20 notices and service charges
• A meeting with the Leasehold Advisory Service in September 2022, minutes here. We covered sinking funds and damp

NHG owes the majority of leaseholders money for service charges in the period 2017 – 2022. Make sure you claim it. There’s still a lack of transparency regarding service charges to please demand receipts

Estate wide costs are distributed amongst leaseholders according to an apportionment principle. So it’s not the case that every leasehold pays 1/1300 of the estate costs, those in bigger flats pay more. MTVH bases its apportionment principle on rateable values. We don’t know what principle SHG and NHG use.

If you want to extend your lease we can’t offer you legal advice but we can offer your neighbourly advice.

If you have an old lease you may be being overcharged for administration.  Full details here

As a leaseholder you have buildings insurance paid for as part of your service charge.  Here’s how it helped one resident of Gaywood Close

If you think you need an EWS1 form to sell or remortgage your lease it’s best to seek professional advice.  This story from a former resident of Kynaston House may help

The Social Housing Action Campaign reports “high levels of inaccuracy [with service charges] allowed to go unchecked”. We know there are many cases where housing associations have demanded service charges that lack transparency or are just plain wrong.  We need to hold our landlords to account to ensure leaseholder service charges are fair.

Nobody in the residents association is a property lawyer. We cannot give legal advice.