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It's not your job to set up a lease, it's the seller's. Why should you pay for it for the seller then to go on and use it for the other flats?
10 years ago an architect's certificate was OK for a mortgage but very few lenders now accept one so resale will be an issue. The builder can, and should, get a retrospective 10 year warranty from someone like Build Zone. It's an insurance policy and they basically just have to cough up a few grand. It shouldn't be up to you to make their property vaguely mortgageable.
As @Prole. says you can't just List the front of a building, if it's Listed, it's all Listed and you can't change anything without consent. If it's not Listed but in a conservation area then it's only the front you can't mess with. Check on the English Heritage website as @Prole. says.
TBH dude this development sounds a bit worryingly amateurish. Get your solicitor to check and double check everything and pay for a very detailed survey.