We have a communal satellite dish on the roof of our building with 8 apartments. Our leasehold clearly stipulates that no leaseholder is allowed to set up an additional satellite dish. Our freeholder (who also owns the management company 'running' the estate) has rented out his two flats. One of his tenants has already set up a satellite dish and now the other has started setting up his with cabling through the communal staircase, drilling holes through door frames. Clearly we are not happy at all as it ruins the aesthetics of the building, it devalues the property's, there can be potential damage and is in breach of the contract.
A question I asked our freeholder in an email: "With regards to the satellite dish; how can you allow one tenant to put up a dish and tell the next one he can’t? Be it 6’, 12’, 18’, whatever size, you’re never going to win that discussion, are you?" His answer: "Yes Freeholder can - and as Freeholder it is for Freeholder to agree what is a reasonable size and position on the Freeholders building. I make this judgement as Freeholder as per the lease you predecessor signed. Please refer to the lease."
My question to you: Is the freeholder allowed to do as he pleases or should he abide the same contract he entered with his leaseholders?
A question I asked our freeholder in an email: "With regards to the satellite dish; how can you allow one tenant to put up a dish and tell the next one he can’t? Be it 6’, 12’, 18’, whatever size, you’re never going to win that discussion, are you?" His answer: "Yes Freeholder can - and as Freeholder it is for Freeholder to agree what is a reasonable size and position on the Freeholders building. I make this judgement as Freeholder as per the lease you predecessor signed. Please refer to the lease."
My question to you: Is the freeholder allowed to do as he pleases or should he abide the same contract he entered with his leaseholders?