Do we have to instal another meter

[Camelia]

What you are saying is that the owners of the freehold are the flat owners. You then go on to say the "owner" wants you to pay for new meters. This is confusing. If you the leaseholders own 25% each of the freehold then you are the owners. Who is this "owner" that wants you to pay an excessive 4.5K? Unless you own a flying freehold and the landlord (the owner of the rest of the freehold) is managing the property....? It would be very helpful to see the supply to the building and the arrangement of the existing electrical metering. Can you post any pictures of this?
If you currently are enfranchised jointly with the other lessees you should have formed a management company, is that the case? As to the meter being broken it is the responsibility of the energy supplier to fix the meter at their own cost. Maybe Energy Ombudsman: Here to help with gas & electricity complaints - https://www.ombudsman-services.org/sectors/energy is who you should be speaking to.
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Why do people find it so hard to read a post properly and instead seem to take a guess at what has been written?

The OP has said that the communal area supply comes from a prepayment meter in one of the flats (ie there is no landlords supply), yet people are replying as if they have said all four flats are supplied via this prepayment meter,which they haven't.

thanks yes. I think I will ask the Ombudsman thank you!

 

[Jim_e_Jib]

Corrected that for you

To be fair, you asked for pictures

 

[Vortigern]

@Camelia you say nothing of the freehold situation which will have a significant bearing on the solutions to your problem

 

[snowhead]

The situation has been O.K for 8 years and now something related to it isn't

The first thing to establish is Exactly what the supplier has said to justify their refusal to repair and what the fault is that needs repair.
Does this flat not have any power on at the moment?

Presumably whatever it was, the flat owner has had a quote for someone to alter the meters etc.
That won't have been from the Energy supplier so who was that from?

My suspicion is that this is related to a meter fixers visit and the installation not fitting into their Idiot chart for working.
There may be an element of the Landlord with the issue taking advantage of the situation.

 

[Camelia]

The situation has been O.K for 8 years and now something related to it isn't

The first thing to establish is Exactly what the supplier has said to justify their refusal to repair and what the fault is that needs repair.
Does this flat not have any power on at the moment?

Presumably whatever it was, the flat owner has had a quote for someone to alter the meters etc.
That won't have been from the Energy supplier so who was that from?

My suspicion is that this is related to a meter fixers visit and the installation not fitting into their Idiot chart for working.
There may be an element of the Landlord with the issue taking advantage of the situation.

Thank you. The supplier is not charging for electricity at the moment which is very odd but then again they are refusing to mend it. I will take your advice about finding out their original reason for not mending it. We each own 25% of the freehold. All of the meters are in one cupboard in the hall.

 

[davesparks]

Thank you. The supplier is not charging for electricity at the moment which is very odd but then again they are refusing to mend it. I will take your advice about finding out their original reason for not mending it. We each own 25% of the freehold. All of the meters are in one cupboard in the hall.

What needs mending?

 

[Vortigern]

So no pictures and no info on lease then? Nvm, next!

 

[DPG]

So no pictures and no info on lease then? Nvm, next!

Hard work this one.

 

[Camelia]

So no pictures and no info on lease then? Nvm, next!

Hi not relevant all I really need to know is : Essentially is it no longer allowed to run communal electricity off a prepayment meter?

Can communal electricity be run off a normal billed meter?

I thought more information would help but most people misread my post . Not too complicated but not even the CAB seem to know

 

[Vortigern]

I must say the questions asked are very relevant. However if your view is that they are not I bow to your outlook on the matter. We will agree to disagree.