Once we have the house, we will be in a position to save again, as the council had not chased the previous owners for it, we thought we would have a bit of time to pay it off.
It's an odd situation I don't fully understand but the estate had gone through 3 different builders due to them going out of business, in the initial planning permission application the contribution was stated, the planning has been renewed twice and in both of these applications there is no demand for a fee.
We are trying to limit the damage to ourselves in case the bank says no so we have held off on a survey until we know that the bank will let us proceed with the sale.