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Council leaseholders

Information for leaseholders about service charges, insurance, and selling your leasehold property

Quick guide

Help for new and existing leaseholders.

Your property

See your rights and responsibilities, find out about your lease, options to purchase freehold, making alternations and insurance claims.

Service charges

If you're a leaseholder, you'll need to pay us, the landlord, for the services we provide. Find out how to pay your service charge bill.

Major works

Information about major works and how to pay for them

Shared ownership

You can purchase an initial share (between 25% and 75%) of a property, and pay rent to the Council on the remaining share.

Subletting a leasehold property

You don't need permission from us to rent out your leasehold property - but you must tell us if you do.

EWS1 forms

Find out more about External Wall System One (EWS1) forms.

Fire safety

Fire safety information and support for leaseholders.

Building safety

We want to make sure everyone in our council homes lives in safe, well-maintained buildings.

Leaseholder forum

An opportunity for leaseholders to hear about our current housing plans, and have your say on issues that matter.

Have your say

Tenants and leaseholders have an opportunity to influence the way services are designed and delivered. Find out how.

Estate services

Find out about services to improve and maintain our housing estates.

Antisocial behaviour

We take antisocial behaviour (ASB) seriously and respond to all reports quickly and sensitively.

Complaints

This page explains how to make a complaint about Housing Services if you are a Lewisham Council tenant or leaseholder.

Our performance

View our reporting against the Regulator of Social Housing’s tenant satisfaction measures.
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