Section 20 Planner — Consultation Dates & Notices for Leaseholder Major Works (England)

S20 PLANNER

Get your Section 20 consultation right the first time.

If you run a leaseholder-owned block — as an RTM company, a residents' management company, or a right-to-manage director — the law is unforgiving. Get a Section 20 consultation wrong on major works and your recovery is capped at £250 per leaseholder, no matter what the job actually cost. A £40,000 roof across twelve flats recovers just £3,000. The block absorbs the other £37,000. That is not a fine or a penalty. It is simply money you can never claim back.

S20 Planner is the tool that stops that happening.

Enter your job cost and the number of leaseholders, and it tells you instantly whether consultation is legally triggered. It shows you, in black and white, exactly how much you stand to lose if you skip a step. Then it builds your full consultation programme — every statutory date worked out for you, forwards from the day you serve, or backwards from the day you need to be on site — and drafts the notices themselves, ready to fill in and send.

No legal training required. No expensive consultant. No guesswork.

Built by a planned works manager who runs these consultations for a living, day in and day out. Based on the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and the Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) Regulations 2003. England.

One block, one payment. £99.

Important: S20 Planner is a planning and drafting tool, not legal advice. It gives you a well-built, statute-based starting point — the dates, the structure and the notices — which you review and adapt to your own block before you serve. It is the difference between a consultation that holds up and a £37,000 hole in your service charge account.

You may also like my Residents owners Handbook The Resident Owner's Handbook — Repairs, Major Works, Money & Section 20 - Payhip

You may also like my free Section 20 Quick-Check — Section 20 Free Check - Payhip

NEW - now includes the Major-Works Project Checklist. A separate 2-page checklist covering the whole job from tender through to the end of the defects period, so nothing gets missed between consultation and completion. Added at no extra cost.