Hi, really hoping someone can shed some light on this.
We have put in a request for planning permission for a fairly simple, one-storey extension on our newbuild (which we own and have lived in 4.5 years).
We have a property management company who basically charge us yearly for maintaining areas around the property and various other things (I can't actually figure out what they do for their money, but that's another story).
We have some paperwork from the property management company from when we moved in, saying that they need to be informed of any changes made including extensions - so we wrote to them informing them about the work, expecting it to just be a formality (with a small-ish fee attached, less than £100 certainly we thought).
So... we received a letter back from them saying they require an admin fee of £260 for the pleasure of allowing us to extend our property, plus we need to pay fees to their solicitor/surveyor and various other people who need to check our extension while it's being built and once the job is done (WTF - isn't that what planning permission is for, to check the extension is viable/reasonable) - so the fees could run into hundreds, thousands...who knows? It's not a cost we had factored in so it was something of a shock.
Has anyone experienced something similar to this? Any advice very welcome!
TIA.
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Property management company demanding extortionate fees for extension - HELP!
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Messing · 23/11/2012 22:20
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