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About the APPG
The APPG holds at least four meetings a year on issues such as holding managing agents and freeholders to account, and pushing forward the secondary legislation to make the 2024 Act effective.
Patron MPs
LKP is secretariat of the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform. APPG chairs are MPs: Amanda Hack, Neil O’Brien, Joseph Powell and Joshua Reynolds. Sir Peter Bottomley, former Father of the House, and Sir Ed Davey are patrons of LKP.
Join the APPG
The APPG in May 2025 has 83 members. In the last Parliament had more than 180 MPs members and Lords. Please join the APPG by emailing us at APPG@leaseholdknowledge.com
APPG 2025

Housing Minister Rachel Maclean pledges to reform LEASE, calls out Churchill Retirement Living, pledges to end the ‘assured tenancy trap’ and reiterates commitments to reform leasehold
Latest in Parliament

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’
National Leasehold Campaign
This is a closed group on Facebook which has 35,000 members. It is an invaluable forum for leaseholders to exchange views and seek advice from others who, very likely, have had the same problem
News from APPG

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)

Government’s approach to cladding crisis has been to duck the blame, says engineer who was shown the door by officials

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)
Communities Select Committee

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law
