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The other thing to look for is whether the lease has any more on responsibilities to repair, etc which you could use to force renewal rather than repair.
The only additional responsibility comes from the freeholder. Who could compel work and just issue a bill.
I've read enough to know that if I go down this path the bill goes up significantly as the freeholder doesn't have to charge us cost or be price sensitive about selecting a vendor and could employ a friend for a shared profit, etc... so I'd rather not trigger the freeholder.
Velocio
Yes, sounds shared. The other thing to look for is whether the lease has any more on responsibilities to repair, etc which you could use to force renewal rather than repair.
As has been said, now may be a good time to push for buying the freehold and sorting things out properly. Personally I had the share of freehold with the other flat and it worked out very well for us. From the roof aspect I replaced the whole roof at my cost but combined that with a loft conversion (it still needed the permission of the other freeholder but it wasn't costing him anything and I was putting a new roof on so he was fine with it).