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Will I need to get consent from anybody else?
Residential Leaseholds
This depends on the terms of your lease and the landlord’s interest in the property. For example, a management company may also need to give consent.
Leasehold Houses
This depends on the terms of your lease, any estate regulations, planning or schemes of management in place for your estate, and on the landlord’s interest in the property. For example, a management company may also need to give consent.
Note
In most circumstances, landlords own the freehold interest but sometimes they own a superior leasehold interest. In this case we also need to review the terms of the superior lease to see if it can grant you consent without breaching its own lease terms.
If consent from a management company or a superior landlord is required, you will also need to comply with their requirements for obtaining consent and you will be responsible for their associated costs, which could include legal and survey fees.
Depending on the type of alteration you wish to carry out, you may also need to get building control approval and/or planning permission and, in some cases, listed building consent.
Neither HomeGround nor the landlord are qualified to advise you on this and you will need to seek specific advice either from the local authority or your architect/builder/surveyor.
Commercial Properties
It may be necessary to obtain consent from a third party, other than the landlord.
For example: if the landlord owns a leasehold interest in the property they may need to get consent from the superior landlord; a management company may need to give consent; and/or where there is a guarantor in your lease.
In these circumstances you will be responsible for meeting any third party costs, in addition to paying the landlord’s reasonable costs.
A condition of the Licence for Alterations is that you have acquired, and covered all the costs of, all relevant planning permission, building control approval, CDM Regulations compliance, insurer’s consent and any other consent required under statute.
Neither HomeGround nor the landlord are qualified to advise you on this and you will need to seek independent professional advice.