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[kmoon249]

Are there any leaseholders of excouncil properties in Southwark who have been granted formal consent to replace internal fittings like kitchen and bathroom fittings from Southwark? We are waiting for approval but they are past their remit and I'm having a hard time finding out what our rights as a leaseholder (if any) are.

thank you.

[Scruffy Mummy]

I've been a leaseholder for over 10 years and as far as I know, it's absolutely fine to replace any internal fittings like kitchen or loo - I've done this myself. And no one from the council raised an eyelid (they came into the flat recent to have a look at my back garden door and saw the new loo and kitchen as part of the recent works and they did also came into my new loo ages ago when my downstairs neighbour who is a council tenant had some water leaking through (it was totally our fault due to a faulty bathroom seal and we just repaired this ASAP)

However, you technically need official consent for anything external - such as window frames or doors or fences but in my experience, they really could give two hoots. In fact, my window frames where rotting in from front windows a couple years ago - even though in the lease this is clearly something they need to do or at least approve, the response I got was that they won't do this, they saw it as external decoration and unless it is part of their once in 10 year major works, they won't do it. So I sorted it - which I prefer as I know I can oversee the work. My fence and gate also needed repairing and I just got this sorted.