Halewood: Homeowners charged £1,400 to park on their own properties

The residents paid about £300 for “maintenance” of their parking spaces, but this has more than quadrupled.

Greg Morgan, 39, said: “We’ve all asked repeatedly for copies of the audited accounts to see what the money is being spent on, and we keep getting fobbed off.

“It’s got to the point now where I’m paying this company as much as two additional mortgage payments a year, people are thinking of selling and leaving here.”

Some of the residents said they were also being charged for the cost of running a block of flats nearby, even though none of them lived in it.

Letters seen by the BBC showed bills for cleaning, maintaining gates and fire safety equipment, carpets and even terrorism insurance for the flats, Applewood Court.

The homeowners said they had also received letters warning them about leaving bikes in the hallways.

Scott Traynor, 48, said: “The problem is quite clear, they’re treating the freehold homes and the leasehold block of flats as the same development, but they’re not.”