Peabody Trust HA slamming us with sudden bills for £2000 for communal upgrades??

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Please help

 

We are the leaseholders for 2 properties in a Peabody trust housing association estate. There are 3 high rise buildings (contains 60 flats each) and 5 small buildings (contains 20 flats each) on the estate.

 

We are currently charged approx £2000 pa per flat for service charges, please bare in mind that the esate is a social housing estate so the very basics are provided.

 

Recently we have received a bill for £2000 per flat for the replacement of communal boilers and associated pipework. That means we have to find £4000 now without warning to pay for the work. I have spoken to Peabody and have been told there is no sink fund in place and that we just have to pay this bill. We have now also received notification that peabody are putting the works for the communal arial out to tender and that we should expect a bill in excess of £1500 per flat??

 

The question is are they allowed to just dump these bills onto us when they feel like it and shouldn't there be a sink fund in place to pay for this or at least part of it??

 

We are now looking at a total bill of £7000 with no warning or say in the matter....what can we do about this??

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Hi

 

Again I'm asking for anyone's help with this??