SINGLE QUERY
Who is responsible for repairing a garage?
A leaseholder needed to know whether their lease made them responsible for repairing their garage, along with who covers the shared structure of the garage block.
The question
What we found
The grey area
Does the lease make the leaseholder directly responsible for repairing and maintaining their garage, and which clauses say so?
On the wording of the lease, the garage is part of the demised premises and the leaseholder is directly responsible for repairing it.
Responsibility for structure shared between garages (party walls, roof, foundations, guttering) is not determinable from the lease wording alone.
Every finding is tied to a specific clause, so the client or their solicitor can verify each point against the original documents.
All names, addresses and reference numbers are anonymised. This is a sample, not a real client matter.