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Blackpool Coastal Housing Ltd
Progress House
Clifton Road
Blackpool
FY4 4US
T 01253 477900
Email:
enquiries@bch.co.uk
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Blackpool Coastal Housing
Progress House
Clifton Road
Blackpool
FY4 4US
(01253) 477984
homeownership@bch.co.uk
Lease and Leaseholder Information
Blackpool Council hold the freehold of the building and will be your Landlord, with Blackpool Coastal Housing managing your Lease on the council's behalf.
You will have bought the Lease and will be a tenant with a long lease.
You will be a Leaseholder.
The Lease gives you the right of possession but not ownership of the property for the period stated in the lease.
The Lease is your legal agreement with the Landlord and sets out your rights and responsibilities;
for example, your payment of Service Charges, Ground Rent and Buildings Insurance Premium, your obligations relating to consent to improvements you may wish to undertake, allowing access for repairs and programmed works and the tenancy conditions connected with neighborhood issues.
The Lease also sets out the Landlords responsibilities.
Open the
Leaseholders Handbook
or click on the
"Handbook and Newsletters"
button for further information.
You will be invoiced in April and October each year for Service Charges, which includes your share of the day to day (responsive) repairs to your block or your own flat and your share of planned/programmed works to your block or your own flat.
Your April invoice will include your annual Ground Rent and Buildings Insurance Charges.
Click on the
Paying your Service Charges
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Section 20 Notice of Intention :
If your building is included in any major extenal improvements works you will receive a statutory notice giving details of the work, its total cost and the share you will have to pay. You will also receive information on the statutory loans policy which may be able to help you towards the costs. If you are interested in being included in any internal improvements being carreid out under the Decent Homes programme please see the "
Decent Homes"
section on this web site.
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