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[pilman]

I thought the object was to get rid of the freehold and the responsibility for future maintenance obligations.
As soon as a company with no assets other than the freehold title is the owner of the building, then surely the individual who transferred the title is no longer liable for anything?...

[pilman]

Form a limited company at a cost of less than £20 using an on-line formation company with one share issued in your name with you as the sole director.

Print out the forms TR1 and AP1 needed to make an application to Land Registry and complete them to show that the freehold is being transferred...

[pilman]

Coming back to this thread, I would want to know why the freehold is of no value.
I am assuming that there are 999 year leases with no ground rent payable, or the bother of maintaining the parts that were not demised by the leases is too much bother.

Knowing why the freehold is to...

[pilman]

[/LIST]The first question to answer is does the extension go onto the boundary?...

[pilman]

I cannot agree with the interpretation given in the previous posting.

A planning permission granted by a local planning authority allows the dwelling to be started. Then once it is started that is when Section 56 of the Town and Country Planning Act comes into force."Because the planning...

[pilman]

There is some information on this web-site, although this appears to be someone's personal viewpoint.
http://www.permitteddevelopment.org/...ses-and-PD.php

I think there would be a need to research legal authority to see if any court has given a judgement on this particular point...

[pilman]

As the registered owner of the freehold you can transfer title to the company for a sum of less than £6,000.

You can then complete Land Registry forms that can be downloaded on-line from the LR web-site. Below a value of £6,000 there will be no need to have evidence of identity.
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