Polja Atkins > Longmores Solicitors LLP > Hertford, England > Lawyer Profile

Polja Atkins

01992 300333 [email protected] View profile

Work Department

Property Litigation

Position

Head of Leasehold Enfranchisement

Career

Polja has developed her niche specialism in lease extensions and collective enfranchisement and is now our go-to legal advisor for freehold companies, management companies, individual landlords and tenants looking for swift, accurate advice and assistance resolving disputes.

Polja qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 2009 with notable previous experience working for the biggest property management company in the country. She also has experience working in a City law firm, representing major breweries in forfeiture of leases of pubs and other commercial properties.  Polja joined Longmores in 2018 and offers expertise including:

• Lease extensions – both pursuant to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and outside of the 1993 Act
• Collective enfranchisement – purchasing of the freehold of blocks of flats pursuant to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
• Right of first refusal
• Right to manage
• Management company and managing agent advice
• Nuisance claims
• Trespass claims
• Injunctions
• Boundary disputes
• Contentious landlord and tenant advice, commercial and residential, such as breaches of terms of lease and possession proceedings pursuant to assured shorthold tenancies
• Land Registry/Property Tribunal applications
• Dilapidation claims
• Recovery of service charge and ground rent arrears
• Forfeiture of commercial leases

Languages

Macedonian and Serbo-Croat (fluent), French (conversational)

Memberships

Polja is an Associate of the Institute of Residential Property Management (IRPM) and a member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP).

Education

The Open University (MA in Criminology and Social Policy: 2002)
University St Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia (Law and Politics: 1996)

Leisure

Polja enjoys European cinema and reading.