Hi Mike I have just bought a freehold house with its own drive and garage and have been charged £148 when we completed the sale last month supposedly to maintain the "green areas" on the development not adopted by the local authority. If you google Chamonix estates you will see a number of residents that have successfully challenged their outrages charges, I have dealt with this company in the past in the industry I worked in and they do not do a very good job of maintaining the properties or areas that they supposedly are paid to care for. Had I been made aware that this was the company that David Wilson Homes had contracted I would probably have not have bought the house. I now intend to engage with them to get a complete breakdown of their charges and challenge them every inch of the way! Mark