Leaseholders > Your rights
Your rights
This section gives you an outline of your rights as a leaseholder.
You are entitled to:
- Enjoy and access your home and any communal areas
- Use the water, gas, electric or telephone supplies or television signals that are available when you buy your lease
- Use any communal stores and drying areas.
You cannot:
- Use the property for illegal or immoral purposes, or run a trade or business from it
- Do anything to cause a nuisance, damage or inconvenience to other people living in the building, or allow anyone else to cause such a problem
- Use television, radio, play instruments or sing so that it annoys other residents at any time
- Do anything to increase insurance costs or void the policy
- Discharge oil, grease, refuse or harmful substances into drains or sewers
- Put up signs or posters on windows or walls that can be seen from outside, except for one ‘to let’ or ‘for sale’ sign
- Hang out washing except in designated drying areas
- Keep pets that may annoy other occupiers or keep more than one domestic dog or cat, small caged bird or small aquatic creature
- Decorate the outside of the property
- Put up external aerials or satellite dishes without asking permission from us.