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You are here: Home / News / Anti-leasehold petition gains 10,000 signatures in under a week

Anti-leasehold petition gains 10,000 signatures in under a week

February 8, 2019 //  by Admin4

By Harry Scoffin

Last Friday, the National Leasehold Campaign launched a petition calling for the abolition of the leasehold system. Leasehold is described as “a form of financial servitude where the leaseholder is forever compensating the freeholder for living on ‘their land’.”

‘The land octopus sucks the lifeblood of the people.’ A postcard from 1909 explains the parasitical nature of leasehold (British Library)

By the stroke of midnight last night, the petition had registered 10,000 signatures. This means that the government must provide a formal response.

As the call for abolition gains considerable traction, the media renews its interest in leasehold. For a second day running, the Daily Mail has reported on the leasehold “property trap”. Yesterday it published on the potential conflicts of interest between developers and conveyors; a follow-up to its devastating two-page spread on Heather Wheeler’s parliamentary performance earlier in the week.

LKP understands that there are editorial plans at the Mail to make leasehold the subject of one of its trail-blazing campaigns, to push for an end to the feudal practice of selling homes as tenancies.

Matt Oliver, who is heading up the coverage, yesterday joined the National Leasehold Campaign’s Facebook group and asked its twelve thousand strong membership for stories.

He urged leaseholders to email him at matt.oliver@dailymail.co.uk or leasehold@dailymail.co.uk, the Daily Mail’s new dedicated email account.

Knowledge is power. Katie Kendrick, of the National Leasehold Campaign group, is helping to politicise leaseholders up and down the country.

“The double-page feature in the Mail has been helpful,” Katie Kendrick, a co-founder of the National Leasehold Campaign, told LKP. “But we’re not surprised how much support there is for the abolition of leasehold. This is organic. As more and more people realise they’ve been conned out of the benefits of home ownership, we expect many more signatures will follow. Instead of being property owners, our members are locked into long tenancies with all kinds of unfair and unexpected charges. The only way out is to sell the very homes they saved so hard for. And selling isn’t possible for people with escalating ground rents or exorbitant service charges. They’ve been lured into a trap.”

“It really didn’t have to be like this,” she added. “Houses should never have been leasehold. Even with flats, the rest of the world makes sure individual properties within a development can be owned on a freehold basis. America has condominium ownership, Australasia strata-title, with co-operatives across continental Europe. Under these systems, buildings don’t have third-party landlords. We say no to putting sticking plasters on leasehold law – we already have over 50 pieces of legislation on the statute books. Neglected commonhold title is the answer. We support the Law Commission’s work on making it easier for existing leaseholders to convert. And although the big developers are not going to like it, commonhold must be mandated on new-build flats. Government must act. It has a moral duty to prevent more innocent homebuyers from falling into the leasehold property trap.”

The National Leasehold Campaign’s next challenge will be to obtain the 100,000 signatures required to have the abolition of leasehold considered for debate in parliament. They have until August.

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  1. chas Willis

    February 9, 2019 at 12:14 am

    Leasehold with Firstport Retirement has decided to increase the Door & Emergency charges by up to 344% because they can. Appello was Cirrus Communication though the Price Fixing Scandal of 2005/2009 the name change was to detract from the Cirrus/Peverel name scandal.

    Now 10 years later, a new scandal with the same Warden Control/Fire Systems as Appello has sold the operating arm to Openview who tendered against Appello for the contract. Having won the contract they then purchased the operational part of the company and decided to increase from £650 a year to over £2,250 for a door entry system we do not have. The Area Manager left Firstport Retirement today, having been asked for over two years for nus to see the Management Contract which is for priority only if a door system no longer works.

    This only allows for the priority for the works to be classed as urgent, and not taken off any costs incurred. A total scam that has now been shared with all Firstport Developments who have been changed after the Appello sale, disgusting and fraudulent.

  2. Michael Epstein

    February 9, 2019 at 6:20 am

    On one development a former charge of £970 under Appello increased to £3,956 after Openview took over.
    Disturbingly Openview have just announced a tie up with Bold Communications, who specialise in building alarm systems.
    Two companies that want to increase their income and thousands of vulnerable leaseholders?
    I fear the worst!

  3. Sophie Peach

    February 11, 2019 at 10:42 am

    At the moment the government is in knots with Brexit, I don’t see anything of value happening In the near future.
    This is a matter that should have been given priority since it has a detrimental effect on people life’s. It really is a legalised scam, allowing freeholders (often based abroad, in mystery locations) and their entourage to exploit owner occupiers.

  4. Martin Harley

    February 22, 2019 at 9:55 pm

    Good Evening

    I have read here that there is voting to challenge the Government on leasehold reform but
    I cannot find where i can vote

    I would appreciate a response.

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