Thanks everyone for your replies...
She is a bit forgetful and having talked to her tonight she has decided that:
- all the flats are leasehold
- there is a freeholder but nobody has been able to late her/him/the organisation for many years !
- the committee is a Residents Committee
- the rule about letting the property is in the original deeds
- interestingly, the deeds also do not allow the garages to be used to park anything except cars, however nobody s enforcing this and several residents use the garages to store boats
so ....
1) Does the Residents Committee have