Residential Alterations
Are you a block manager dealing with time-consuming and complex licence to alter applications?
- Do you feel that the success of an LTA projects lies with you?
- Are you a little lost when it comes to the lease terms?
- Do you feel out of control dealing with so many different parties?
- Do you need help in managing the expectations of the leaseholder and landlord?
- Has a leaseholder carried out works and you now need to consider retrospective consent?
- Are you concerned that works are contentious and may lead to a dispute?
- Do you know where to start with damage deposits and schedules of condition?
- Are licence to alter applications taking too long?
Have you considered engaging a specialist Licence to Alter partner across your portfolio?
EK Licence to Alter
The Block Manager’s Licence to Alter Surveyor
Speedy processing and updates whenever you need them
Decades of alteration experience within the team
Hundreds of consents completed, hundreds of happy leaseholders
Bespoke Licence to Alter manuals for each block
EK Licence to Alter
Why Partner With Us?
Fast, efficient and cost effective
Swift and tried-and-tested procedures help to preserve good landlord/leasehold relations, whilst managing expectations. Cost undertakings are sought early on, with the leaseholder being made aware of their liabilities irrespective of the works proceeding. Retrospective licences are dealt with decisively, especially when leases are about to be assigned, pending alterations approval.
Seamless interface with block managers
Communication is key, especially with potentially a dozen stakeholders/participants involved. We may be dealing with your client and a superior landlord too. We’ll be pleased to hold video calls with you or send regular trackers so you stay abreast of the ongoing LTA projects across your portfolio.
Unrivalled technical expertise
Assimilating complex and contentious proposals, leases, plans, local authority approvals and specifications is our speciality. Technical oversight includes liaison with solicitors, managing agents, insurance brokers and other third party experts such as structural and M&E engineers, and H&S consultants too.
A hand-holding service start to finish
We will run the licence to alter application, liaising with all stakeholders throughout, so you can focus on managing the building. Whether the leaseholder’s application is for the installation of a new kitchen requiring informal permission, or structural works to create an open plan space, we will support you throughout the process, ensuring the lease terms are strictly adhered to, schedules of condition are arranged, and damage deposits taken. We also act for leaseholders themselves, 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 block 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 manuals for buildings with high LTA volumes
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Block Manager Testimonials
Bill and his team were able to deal with the demands of my client and the concerns of the other owners in the apartments above and below, which included noise and sound insulation, connections ready for the new heating and hot water services, delays and timescales being moved – most of which took place during the Covid lockdowns in 2020 and 2021.
The challenges that leaseholders and their professionals teams present property managers like me mean we need and rely on the type of support that EK Licence to Alter offers day in day out.
Kings Chelsea has robust leases in place for everyone’s benefit and that means alterations small and large need landlord permission. EK Licence to Alter have dealt expertly with many applications to date, from minor ‘short form’ licences to entire apartment refurbishments, including structural works.
EK Licence to Alter is a well-oiled machine, a true specialist in this field and an invaluable extension of our own team. Their willingness to engage with all stakeholders encourages us let go of the reins and allow Bill and his team to liaise with solicitors, and with the leaseholders themselves and their contractors/professional teams. EK Licence to Alter will meet with the contractor pre-works, monitor the works in progress, and report as necessary to my team. It’s of great comfort to know we’re in safe hands with EK, and my team can focus on other priorities.
Whether the application is from a leaseholder in a small converted house, or an expansive mansion block, EK Licence to Alter will contact the applicant directly and take things from there. They are friendly, approachable and knowledgeable, so applicants are immediately put at ease, especially important when it’s their first home refurbishment project.
Complex or straightforward, we rely on EK Licence to Alter to adjust their service accordingly. We value their technical advice and their lease interpretation too. When it comes to liaison with our lawyers, EK Licence to Alter demonstrate a natural rapport which helps to accelerate the process.
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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