Jurisdiction
Leasehold Valuation Tribunals have a number of jurisdictions including:
- Determining the price to be paid by tenants compulsorily acquiring either the freehold of houses or lease extensions of flats or collectively exercising the right to purchase the freehold of a collection of flats
- Determination of whether a service charge is payable
- Granting dispensations to landlords from compliance with statutory consultation with respect to service charges
- On a tenant's application, preventing the landlord from treating costs of proceedings as relevant costs (i.e. from adding them to the tenant's service charge bill)
- The appointment of managers and receivers for flats improperly managed
- Determining whether a leaseholder is in breach of a term of their lease other than one to pay rent or a service or administration charge for the purposes of permitting the landlord to take steps to forfeit the lease
- Variation of long leases of flats
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