ARE YOU A LEASEHOLDER IN WALES?
The Welsh Government Leaseholder Legal Advisory Scheme provides first-stage legal support for individual leaseholders, in Wales, to access bespoke legal advice for their specific claim.
The qualification requirements are:
- The building is in Wales
- The building has a fire safety-related issue
- The building is 11 metres or over (approximately five storeys)
If you qualify then contact LEASE for referral to the scheme. Once referred, the scheme can provide you with up to three hours of legal support and two letters or emails.
The Welsh Government has also designed the Leaseholder Support Scheme to help people who are facing significant financial hardship as a direct result of possible fire safety issues affecting their medium or high-rise building. The scheme is free and is intended to offer leaseholders advice and solutions to their current financial concerns.
The first step is to complete the scheme eligibility checker where you can check if you might be eligible for the scheme.
Listed below are other pages specifically for leaseholders in Wales.
Advice guides
- Application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal – Wales
- Differences in notices and other documents
- Living in leasehold flats
- Major works good practice guides
- Summary of rights and obligations – administration charges – Wales
- Summary of rights and obligations – service charges – Wales
- Thinking of buying a flat?
News
- The Welsh Government publishes guide for people with responsibilities for fire safety
- The Wales Leaseholder Support Scheme
- Welsh Government’s Leaseholder Support Scheme – Expansion of Eligibility Criteria Announcement
- UK and Welsh governments publish guidance on the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022
- Fire Safety Bill comes into law in Wales
- Welsh Government – Written Statement: Next steps on leasehold reform
- Welsh Government – Written Statement: Building Safety Funding in Wales
- Welsh Government – Building Safety: Updated Position Statement
- Law Commission issues reports making recommendations for reform for Enfranchisement, Right to Manage, and Commonhold
- Welsh Government announces action on leasehold reform
- Law Commission publishes its provisional proposals to improve the Right to Manage
- Wales joins the Law Commission’s residential leasehold reform project
- Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Right (Wales) Bill
Leasehold Valuation Tribunal application forms
- 1 – Application relating to Right to Manage Companies
<PDF – 158KB> - 2 – Application for a determination as to liability to pay and reasonableness of a variable administration charge or for the variation of a fixed administration charge
<PDF – 214KB> - 3 – Application to determine that a breach of covenant or a condition in the lease has occurred
<PDF – 138KB> - 4 – Application for an order under Section 20c of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
<PDF – 143KB> - 5 – Application for the dispensation of all or any of the consultation requirements provided for by section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
<PDF – 208KB> - 6 – Application for a determination as to liability to pay and reasonableness of variable service charges
<PDF – 220KB> - 7 – Application for the variation of a lease or leases
<PDF – 147KB> - 8 – Application for the appointment of a manager or for the variation or discharge of an order appointing a manager under Section 24 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
<PDF – 212KB> - 9 – Applications relating to the recognition of Tenants’ Associations
<PDF – 127KB> - 10 – Houses and Premises – Application to determine costs and other issues
<PDF – 171KB> - 11 – Houses and premises – Leasehold Enfranchisement – Application for a determination as to price payable
<PDF – 149KB> - 12 – Flats and Premises – Lease Renewal Application for Determination of Premium or Other Terms of Acquisition remaining in dispute
<PDF – 150KB> - 13 – Flats and Premises – Leasehold Enfranchisement: Missing Landlord – Application to determine Lease Terms and/or Premium
<PDF – 137KB> - 14 – Application for Reasonable Costs – Flats and Premises – provided for by section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
<PDF – 148KB> - 15 – Flats and Premises – Collective Enfranchisement – Application for Determination of the Terms of Acquisition remaining in Dispute
<PDF – 152KB>
