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Recommendations
Recommendation
Prioritisation
(ST, MT, LT)
Responsibility
for action (M,
ED, PO etc.)
Evidence Base
(O, EW, L etc.)
Action to be taken
Measure of success
Review Payment
Options
ST (to be in
place by
2010/11
financial year)
ED
O, L
L – results of
questionnaire
and focus
groups, pp9 –
15; p33, paras
76-79
O – p23, para
43
As part of the review
consideration should
be given to:
1. Extending the time
allowed for the service
charge to be paid from
10 to 12 months.
2. Extending the time
allowed for major works
bills to be paid, to allow
staged payments over
two years from the date
the final bill is issued.
3. Encouraging
leaseholders to start
making provision for
major works as soon as
the initial notice is
issued.
4. Implementing onaccount
billing for
each leasehold
property, where
regular payments can
be made to contribute
to major works.
New payment
options developed.
Leaseholders’
satisfaction
increased as time
allowed to pay bills
is extended.
Investigating the
possibility of
encouraging the
transfer of the
freehold to
leaseholders
MT (policy to
be in place by
end of
2010/11
financial year)
ED/PO
L
Results of
questionnaire
and focus
groups, pp9 –
15
Investigate how the
collective right to
enfranchisement of
the freehold under
Part I of the Leasehold
Reform, Housing and
Urban Development
Act 1993 can be
encouraged amongst
leaseholders.
Leaseholders apply
to take on the
freehold where
feasible.
Advising potential
leaseholders of
the implications of
buying a
leasehold property
before they
purchase
ST (For action
in 2010/11
financial year)
ED/M
L
Results of
questionnaire
and focus
groups, pp9 –
15
Consider how potential
leaseholders might be
provided with more
information on the
implications of owning
leasehold property
before they purchase
(e.g. approaching the
CAB, facilitating
meetings between
Housing Providers and
local Solicitors etc.)
New leaseholders
fully aware of their
rights and responsibilities
The Council’s obligations to leaseholders
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