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Payments and charges

In this section

  1. Service charges
  2. Breakdown of service charges
  3. Ad-hoc service requests
  4. Major Works
  5. Service Charge Arrears
  6. Debt Priority
  7. You are here: How to Pay
  8. Paying for Major Works
  9. Potential Costs for Leasehold and Shared Ownership
  10. Shared ownership service charge guide

How to Pay

Service charges must be paid within 30 days of the receipt of your Ground Rent and Service Charge Demand.

The easiest and quickest way to pay is through our automated payment systems which are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – just select the option to ‘pay housing rent’:

  • Online Payment System (www.rotherham.gov.uk/pay)
  • Automated Telephone Payments: call 0300 456 2723

Please remember to quote your full leasehold account reference number with any payment.

Pay online

Direct Debit

Paying by Direct Debit is the only way we will accept your service charges to be paid by instalments. We have three monthly dates available; 1, 12 or 24 of every month.

Please note:

  • The Direct Debit will be setup to collect 1/12 of your total account balance every month
  • If you setup a Direct Debit part-way through the year, your first payment will collect the amount due up to that point, e.g. if your first payment will be in July, it will collect 4/12 of your total balance
  • If you miss a payment, the next payment will be automatically doubled to catch-up. If this payment also fails we will withdraw the Direct Debit payment facility and arrears recovery action will commence
  • Alternative arrangements are available for repayment of major works charges

Download the Direct Debit form

  • Previous page: Debt Priority
  • Next page: Paying for Major Works

Update your Leasehold Details

It's important that the contact details we hold for you are complete and up-to-date. We would particularly like to be provided with your email address as we feel that the use of electronic communications wherever possible will help to keep service charges as low as possible.

  • Update your details

Get involved with Leasehold Services

We are keen to involve leaseholders in the development of our services and we would like to know if you want to be included on our customer involvement database.

  • Get involved

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