What are service charges?

The landlord provides services and the leaseholder has to pay for these.

Under your lease:

• The Trust will be responsible for repairing the structure and outside of your flat and the rest of the building. This includes routine repairs and maintenance, and also major maintenance and improvement work (for example, repairing the roof or replacing a lift), which can be very expensive.
• The Trust may also provide services like lighting, cleaning staircases and passageways and perhaps grounds maintenance.

You will have to pay a reasonable share of the costs for all these works and services. You will also have to pay a charge towards the Trust’s costs of managing the block.