Council leaseholders

When you buy your council home, you buy the leasehold interest in the property. We keep the freehold interest.

This leasehold is a legal agreement between you and us. Once the lease period ends, the rights over the land and building return to the council.

• the walls, ceilings and floors inside your home
• cisterns, tanks, drains, pipes, wires and ducts serving your home only
• 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.

Several times a year, this panel will meet and work with Home Ownership to ensure best practice and performance. For further details see our Leaseholder Improvement Panel.