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What is Vertical Division of a property?

Answers to your property related questions from the Arnold and Baldwin team.

Vertical division of a property is where the flats or apartments within a building must be  self-contained from ‘earth to sky’ constituting a vertical division of the building. Services must be independent to that part of the building or be able to be provided without significant interruption to the remaining part.

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