Would you care to openly post. I may not know the answer but I can speak to a man who does
Ok, here goes.
I live in a flat, one in a block of 4.
This flat is mine, bought with a mortgage.
As it's a flat in a block of 4, it is a leasehold, rather than a freehold.
There is a man who lives in the flat above mine.
His flat is his, like mine is mine.
As it is the same building, his flat is like mine, a leasehold.
It stated in the leasehold contract:
"No person shall reside in the flat unless the floor thereof is covered with carpet rugs or other suitable materials with sound damping qualities except that the same may be removed for cleaning repairing or decorating or for some similar temporary purpose" (word for word from my copy).
The man above has laminate flooring, throughout his flat.
Not a "suitable materials with sound damping qualities" to be seen, or not heard.
It's like living under the stage while the cast of river-dance tap-dance.
Morning, noon and night, he is up there, like a heard of elephants.
Now the situation has been explained, the question:
Are the leaseholders obliged to take action against him, to make him get "suitable materials with sound damping qualities" or could they say "we chose not to."
Secondly, if they decided not to, who would I have to take to court to get it enforced, him, or them?