This could happen if:-

• You do not pay your service charges
• You are responsible for antisocial behaviour or harassment towards your neighbours.
• You allow your property to fall into disrepair

If the court decides that you have seriously broken the terms of your lease it may end the lease and give us possession of your flat. You would lose your home and would not usually get any payment or compensation.

Forfeiture is a drastic action. As a responsible landlord, we only use it when we have to, to protect the interests of the Council, its tenants and other leaseholders. With overdue service charges, we will always try to help people who have genuine financial problems. Before applying for forfeiture for unpaid service charges we would have to satisfy a Leasehold Valuation Tribunal that the charges were reasonable and the leaseholder had made no attempt to pay them.