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Our senior team have contributed to a packed newsletter, looking back over the last few months.

EK Licence to Alter provides you with the ideal combination of technical and procedural expertise to simplify the often daunting licence to alter process.

This flow chart illustrates the procedure to be followed when leaseholders apply for Landlord’s Consent for alterations to their demise.

This flow chart illustrates the retrospective procedure for leaseholder alterations.

This flow chart illustrates the procedure to be followed when tenants apply for Landlord’s Consent for alterations to their demise.

Building a conservatory or similar extension in the garden of your ground floor flat can seem like a straightforward project. Some conservatories can be erected in just a week. But the process is more complicated than it appears: there are both technical and legal issues that must be considered before any work commences. Whether you are a Leaseholder planning a conservatory in your own flat, a Landlord or Property Manager responsible for a property, or a Solicitor appointed to prepare the Licence to Alter for such alterations, this fact sheet covers the key points to bear in mind.

In order to protect the freeholder’s interests and those of other leaseholders/tenants, most residential leases restrict the leaseholder’s rights to alter premises.

In simple terms, a macerator is a pump that drives water and liquid waste from one part of a property to another.

This fact sheet highlights the issues that must be considered when developing proposals to install hard floor finishes in residential blocks, the requirements for acoustic performance and the likely basis of any landlords consent.