Barnet Homes

Who owns what? 

 


As a leaseholder you own:

• the walls, ceilings and floors inside your home
• cisterns, tanks, drains, pipes, wires and ducts serving your home only
• glass in the windows
• doors and door frames inside your home
• the surfaces of walls that are inside your home
• gardens and pathways which lead to your home only and are inside the legal boundaries of your home.

As the freeholder, Barnet Council owns:

• the main structural parts of the building
• joints and beams
• the front door, door frame and window frames (unless you have a Deed of Variation)
• pipes running through your home if they serve more than one home
• drains, gutters, pipes, cables, sewers and wires which serve more than one home
• shared hallways, corridors, stairways and doors
• recreation areas outside your home, communal gardens and parking areas
• shared TV aerials.