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Question: 5.14.10. If different from 1.11, contact for service charge matters:

Lender Answer
Accord Buy to Let As 1.11a.
Accord Mortgages Ltd As 1.11a
Adam & Company See 1.11
Adam & Company International See 1.11

Ahli United Bank (UK) plc Central Administration Unit
Aldermore Bank PLC As 1.11.
Allied Irish Bank (GB), a trading name of AIB Group (UK) Refer to AIB Group (UK) plc, Central Securities (GB), 92 Anne Street, Belfast, BT1 3H
April Mortgages As per 1.11
Atom Bank plc As per 1.11.
Aviva Equity Release UK Ltd See 1.11
Bank of China mortgages@bank-of-china.com
Bank of Ireland (UK) plc See 1.11
Bank of Ireland as Bank of Ireland Mortgages See 1.11
Bank of Scotland Beginning A Bank of Scotland Plc, Mortgage Operations, Pentland House, 8 Lochside Avenue, Edinburgh, EH12 9DJ. Tel: 0345 603 1136 Fax: 0131 339 2366
Bank of Scotland Beginning O Address and telephone number on the Mortgage Offer.
Bank of Scotland Private Banking  
Barclays Bank UK PLC Issuing Office
If you are in receipt of an EWS1 form for the property, please only forward it to Barclays if the form indicates a rating of A3 or B2
This form must be accompanied by an accompanying letter (on the signatory firm’s headed notepaper). This must relate back to the subject property, confirm the firm’s area of business expertise, that the full property has been inspected and be signed by the EWS1 signatory.
Do not send on EWS1 forms for new build properties completed after 1 January 2020, or properties that have been remediated for fire safety, with works completed after 1 January 2020.
Barnsley Building Soc, a trading name Yorkshire Building Soc As 1.11a.
Better HomeOwnership (Mortgages) See 1.11
Birmingham Bank mortgages@birminghambank.com
Birmingham Midshires Completions Team at office issuing mortgage instructions. See Offer for contact details.
Bluestone Mortgages As per 1.11.
Bradford & Bingley Limited As 1.11a
Britannia, a trading name of The Co-operative Bank plc Britannia New Lending Britannia House Leek Staffordshire Moorlands ST13 5RG or Britannia New Lending DX 16351 Leek. Telephone and Fax numbers as shown on the letter enclosing the Offer of Advance
Buckinghamshire Building Society Buckinghamshire Building Society, High Street,
Chalfont St Giles, Bucks,
HP8 4QB
e-mail mortgages@bucksbs.co.uk
Tel: 01494 879517
Fax: 01494 877259
Chelsea Building Society (a trading name of Yorkshire BS) As 1.11a.
CHL Mortgages As per 1.11
Clydesdale Bank plc The team at Clydesdale Bank
Sunderland
SR43 4JE
Tel – 0800 121 4203

Co-operative Bank plc See 1.11a earlier.
Coutts See 1.11
Coutts Finance Co See 1.11
Coventry Building Society New Lending Department,
Oakfield House,
PO Box 600, Binley,
Coventry,
CV3 9YR
Cynergy Bank As per 1.11.a
Danske Bank As at 1.11a
Darlington Building Society Customer Support Department, Principal Office
DB UK Bank Ltd db mortgages
PO Box 890
Newport
NP20 9LZ
Tel: 0845 650 6281
DX Address - not available
Dudley Building Society As 1.11a
Ecology Building Society As 1.7
Family Building Soc (a trading name of National Counties BS) Loans Underwriting Department, Ebbisham House, 30 Church Street, Epsom, Surrey KT17 4NL
Email: loansunderwriting@familybsoc.co.uk
First Direct  
Fleet Mortgages See 1.11a

Please report to us where the service charge exceeds 1% of the property's value or £5,000, whichever is the lower. Where you are made aware that the service charge will increase significantly (for example, by greater than £1000 per annum), please advise us what the new level will be and why.

Where you have been advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for please provide:
a) A full list of works to be undertaken
b) An estimated timescale to undertake the work
c) The cost of works and the contribution required from the borrower
Foundation Home Loans See 1.11.a

Where you are made aware that the service charge will increase significantly (i.e. by greater than £1000 p/a), please advise us what the new level will be and why.

Where you have been advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for please provide:
a) A full list of works to be undertaken
b) An estimated timescale to undertake the work
c) The cost of works and the contribution required from the borrower
Furness Building Society As 1.11a
GE Money Home Lending Ltd GE Money Home Lending has withdrawn from the UK mortgage market.
Gen H If the service charge exceeds 1% of the value of the property, if there are planned significant increases in the reasonably forseeable future or any other potentially onerous service charge matters to report to us, please do so through Secure Link which is accessed via LMS Conveyancer Zone.
Godiva Mortgages Ltd New Lending Department,
Oakfield House,
PO Box 600, Binley,
Coventry,
CV3 9YR
Habito as per 1.11
Halifax Customer Services Centre,(see offer for address and fax number)
Halifax Loans Ltd Halifax Loans Limited, Trinity Road, Halifax, HX1 2RG
Hampden & Co. plc See 1.11
Handelsbanken Refer to Branch office instructing you.
Harpenden Building Society As 1.11a
Hinckley and Rugby Building Society Principal Office, Completions Team
Hodge As per 1.11a
Hodge Equity Release As per 1.11a
Holmesdale Building Society Lender.
HSBC UK Bank plc  
Intelligent Finance Securities, Intelligent Finance, PO Box 890, Leeds, LS1 9UG


Investec Bank plc See 1.11
ITL Mortgages New Lending Department,
Oakfield House,
PO Box 600, Binley,
Coventry,
CV3 9YR
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Refer to office issuing Mortgage Instructions.
Kensington Mortgage Company Ltd Kensington Mortgages, New Business Operations Centre, Ascot House, Maidenhead Office Park, Maidenhead, SL6 3QQ. Tel: 03444 990011 Fax: 03444 990022.
Kent Reliance (a trading name of OneSavings Bank plc)  
Keystone Property Finance As 1.11a
Landbay Partners Limited The service charge cannot exceed 1.0% of the property value for loans up to £499,999.99, and 1.5% of the property value for loans of £500,000.00 and over. You must contact us if it exceeds this amount.
Where you are advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for, please provide:

a) A full list of works to be undertaken
b) An estimated timescale to undertake the work
c) The cost of works and the contribution required from our applicant

You should only refer back to the Completions team for review if the lease does not meet our requirements.
Landmark Mortgages Limited New Mortgage Completions
Landmark Mortgages
PO Box 656
Durham
DH1 9LY

Tel - 0330 159 7152
Leeds Building Society As per 1.11a.
Legal & General Home Finance Ltd Same as 1.11a The maximum total service charge payable, to include ground rent and any contribution to a sinking fund cannot be greater than 2.5% of the of the property value.
LendInvest See 1.11a
LiveMore Capital As 1.11a
Lloyds Bank plc pre fixed 20/40 Mortgage Processing. Please see 1.11.
Lloyds Bank plc pre fixed 50/30/77 Mortgage Processing. Please see 1.11a
Lloyds TSB Scotland plc Mortgage Processing. Please see 1.11a
M&S Bank M&S Bank, PO Box 12, Skipton, BD23 2HL. Telephone Number 0345 002 1128 Fax 0345 111 0322
Magellan Homeloans Issuing Office
Manchester Building Society Underwriting Department.
Market Harborough Building Society As per 1.7
Masthaven Bank As per 1.11.
Metro Bank plc As per 1.11.
ModaMortgages As per 1.11a
Molo Finance As 1.11a.
Monmouthshire Building Society Lending Operations Department
Monmouthshire Building Society
Monmouthshire House
John Frost Square
Newport
NP20 1PX
Mortgage Agency Services Mortgage Agency Services PO Box 138 Plymouth Devon PL1 1XY
Mortgage Express As 1.11a
Mortgage Express No 2  
MPowered Mortgages As 1.11a
National Counties Building Society Loans Underwriting Department, Ebbisham House, 30 Church Street, Epsom, Surrey KT17 4NL
Email: loansunderwriting@ncbs.co.uk
National Westminster Bank plc As 1.11a
Nationwide Building Society Issuing Office. Where you are made aware that the service charge will increase significantly (i.e. by greater than £1000 p/a), please advise us what the new level will be and why.
Where you have been advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for please provide:
a) A full list of works to be undertaken
b) An estimated timescale to undertake the work
c) The cost of works and the contribution required from our applicant.
Nedbank Private Wealth Ltd You must refer to us.
New Street Mortgages New Street Mortgages, PO Box 4761, Maidenhead, SL60 1HW. Tel: 0333-300-3100, Fax: 0333-300-3132, email: enquiries@newstreetmortgages.com
NRAM Ltd See 1.11a
Paragon Buy to Let Mortgages As 1.11a.
Paragon Residential Owner-Occupied Mortgages As 1.11a.
Paratus AMC Ltd New Business Department, Foundation Home Loans, 5 Arlington Square, Downshire Way, Bracknell, RG12 1WA
Email: FHL@foundationhomeloans.co.uk
Tel: 01344 770 8033

Where you are made aware that the service charge will increase significantly (i.e. by greater than £1000 p/a), please advise us what the new level will be and why.

Where you have been advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for please provide:
a) A full list of works to be undertaken
b) An estimated timescale to undertake the work
c) The cost of works and the contribution required from the borrower
Parity Trust As 1.7
Pepper Money Pepper Money Completions Department Tel No. 0333 370 1101 or email lendingenquiries@pepper.money
Pepper Money (PUK) Pepper Money Completions Department Tel No. 0333 370 1101 or email
lendingenquiries@pepper.money
Perenna Please contact our Mortgage team by either telephone: 0330 341 2013 or Email: conveyancing@perenna.co.uk
Platform (a trading name of The Co-operative Bank p.l.c.) Refer to office issuing Mortgage Instructions.
Precise Mortgages (Charter Court Financial Services Ltd)  
Principality Building Society As in 1.7:
Mortgage New Business
PO Box 89
Queen Street
CARDIFF
CF10 1UA
0330 333 4021
Reliance Bank Ltd mortgages@reliancebankltd.com or
0207 398 5422 - Option 1 Discuss New Lending/Option 2 Discuss existing Reliance Bank Mortgage
Rooftop Mortgages Ltd The address and contact details shown on the mortgage offer.
Saffron Building Society Where you are made aware that the service charge will increase significantly (i.e by greater than £1,000 per annum or to more than 1% of the property value per annum), please advise us what the new level will be and why. Where you have been advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for, please provide a full list of the works to be undertaken, the estimated timescales to complete and the cost of the works and contribution required from our applicant to:
Mortgage Processing Team
Saffron Building Society, Saffron House, 1A. Market Street, Saffron Walden, Essex. CB10 1HX

Mortgage.processing@saffronbs.co.uk
Telephone 01799 582966
Fax 01799 581901
Sainsbury's Bank Contact point as detailed in 1.11a.
Santander UK plc Refer to Mortgage Operations office instructing you.
Scottish Building Society  
Scottish Widows Bank New Business Processing (see 1.11a).
Secure Trust Bank PLC As 1.11
Skipton Building Society Completions Team via LMS Secure Link.
St James Place Bank Mortgage Administration, St James's Place Bank, Administration Centre, PO Box 1869, Livingston EH54 7XS
State Bank of India UK As 1.11a.
Swansea Building Society 11/12 Cradock Street
Swansea
SA1 3EW
01792 739100
The Mortgage Business The Mortgage Business, PO Box 548, Leeds LS1 1WU. Fax no. 0845 6039009
The Mortgage Lender Limited completions@themortgagelender.com

Tel: 0344 257 0426
The Mortgage Works Issuing Office - where you are made aware that the service charge will increase significantly (i.e. by greater than £1,000 p/a), please advise what the new level will be and why.
Where you are advised that works are planned to the property which our applicant is liable for please provide:
a) A full list of works to be undertaken
b) An estimated timescale to undertake the work
c) The cost of works and the contribution required from our applicant
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc As detailed above in 1.11a.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc Direct Line Mortgages As detailed above in 1.11a.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc Direct Line One As detailed above in 1.11a.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc First Active As detailed above in 1.11a
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc Natwest one Account As detailed above in 1.11a.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc One Account As detailed above in 1.11a.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc Virgin One As detailed above in 1.11a.
The Tipton & Coseley Building Society Mortgage Department.
Together Personal Finance Limited Contact point as detailed in 1.11a above.
Topaz Finance Ltd Topaz Finance Limited
Gateway House, Gargrave Road,
Skipton,
North Yorkshire,
BD23 2HL
0345 389 1672
TSB Bank plc Mortgage Processing. Please see 1.11a
Ulster Bank As detailed above in 1.11a.
Vida Homeloans As 1.11a
Virgin Money Mortgage Processing
Operations
Virgin Money
Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE3 4PL
Solicitor Helpline: 0845 604 4858
Solicitor Email: postoffer@virginmoney.com
Whistletree (a trading name of TSB Bank plc) Details as 1.11a
Yorkshire Bank Home Loans Ltd The team at Yorkshire Bank
Sunderland
SR43 4JF
Tel – 0800 121 4203

Yorkshire Building Society As 1.11a.
Zephyr Homeloans As per 1.11