Last updated: 13 April 2022
Next review: 13 April 2023
How leaseholds work
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.
What you own
- 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.
Join the leaseholder improvement panel
This panel will meet a few times a year and works with Home Ownership team to ensure best practice, high levels of performance and value for money. For further details see our Leaseholder Improvement Panel.