Commercial Alterations
For landlords and commercial property managers, we’ll take the technical and procedural stresses away.
- Do you feel the success of an LTA application lies entirely with you?
- Do you need help deciphering the lease terms to ascertain the relevant covenants?
- Do you need help in managing the expectations of the tenant and landlord?
- Do you need help understanding the potential rentalising of licenced improvements at a future rent review?
- Are licence to alter applications far too drawn out for your liking?
- Are you concerned that works are contentious and may erode good relations between landlord and tenant?
- Do you know where to start with damage deposits and schedules of condition?
- Do you need help with ensuring tenants reinstate/reverse licenced work at the end of their tenancy?
- Do you need help with tenant alterations that constitute an improvement and have a consequent effect on the rental value?
- Are you sure how to deal with an uplift in the declared value post tenant works?
- Has a tenant carried out works and you now need to consider retrospective consent?
- Do you feel out of control dealing with so many different parties?
Have you considered engaging a specialist
Licence to Alter partner?
EK Licence to Alter
The Property Manager’s Licence to Alter Surveyor
Speedy processing and updates on LTA applications whenever you need them
Decades of alteration experience within the team
Hundreds of consents completed, hundreds of happy customers
Bespoke licence to alter procedures for your company
EK Licence to Alter
Why Partner With Us?
Fast, efficient and cost effective
Swift and tried-and-tested procedures help to preserve good landlord and tenant relations, whilst managing tenant expectations. Cost undertakings are sought early on, with the tenant being made aware of their liabilities irrespective of the works proceeding. Retrospective consents are dealt with decisively.
Seamless interface with stakeholders
Communication is key, especially with potentially a dozen stakeholders/participants involved. You may be dealing with your client and a superior landlord too, so let us take the strain. And for an application from a sub-tenant, we will seek approval from the tenant and process a tripartite agreement. In multi-let properties such as shopping centres and offices, interface works may be needed with landlord plant and equipment – more stakeholders to liaise with.
Unrivalled technical expertise
Assimilating complex and contentious proposals, leases, plans, local authority approvals and specifications is our speciality, as is compliance with DDA and H&S legislation, and works outside of the tenant’s demise (wayleaves and easements). Technical oversight includes liaison with solicitors, managing agents, insurance brokers and other third party experts such as structural or M&E engineers and H&S and sustainability consultants.
A hand-holding service start to finish
Whether the tenant application is for the installation of a satellite dish or full fit-out works, we will support you throughout the process, ensuring the lease terms are strictly adhered to, financial bonds and warranties are organised where necessary, and plans are made for eventual reinstatement. We also act for tenants, navigating the minefield that is licence to alter.
Licence to Alter Workshop
We are committed to sharing knowledge and increasing your understanding and awareness of the licence to alter process and its many intricacies. We appreciate how licence to alter impacts on your role as a property manager and we want to make it easier for you.
Our licence to alter workshops share that knowledge with you and start a conversation to bespoke our procedures to how YOU work. Our licence to alter workshops include:
- Introduction to this unregulated surveying activity
- Flowchart of milestones from application to completed works
- Different types of lease covenant
- Who is involved and how they interact
- Levels of consent, including retrospective licences
- Schedules of condition
- Typical works examples
- Pitfalls to avoid
- Bespoke LTA procedures to suit your company’s way of working
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With a collective 50 years’ experience, having agreed many hundreds of consents and counting, EK Licence to Alter’s proven and rigorously-tested approach to demised alterations is what allows us to deliver remarkable results.
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