Sebastian O'Kelly

As 17% of cladding leaseholders consider bankruptcy, LKP funding proposal offers alternative to successive crises facing flat-owners

Why the law won’t help cladding leaseholders

LKP response to Robert Jenrick £3.5bn ‘exceptional intervention’ to cladding high-rises today

Question Time: Zoom meeting with LKP cladding funding proposal team, Tuesday 5pm February 9 2021

Must see: cladding video. AND Barratt backs an industry-wide levy

Labour puts the boot into forced loans to cladding leaseholders

Non-ACM Building Safety Fund is four times over-subscribed and is doling out £2m per block

LKP backs Sadiq Khan demand that ALL shared ownership leases to be 999 years

Why is Michael Wade rushing forced loans on leaseholders before Grenfell Inquiry considers government and housebuilders’ failings?

LKP trustees tell MHCLG that Martin Boyd can return to LKP any time

Sunday Times: officials trying to gag leaseholders. Daily Mail: Wade funding proposal will crash property market

RICS and lenders ease EWS1 for under-18m blocks which has blighted the re-sale market

Law Commission praises LKP to Sir Peter Bottomley over ‘crucial’ role in obtaining leasehold reforms

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

Freeholders must pay for cladding – or lose freeholds, say LKP patron MPs

Here is how to avoid dumping the cladding scandal bill on leaseholders or taxpayers

Government steps back from dumping all cladding costs on leaseholders

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

LKP calls for levy on developers and freeholders over cladding

Cracks in the leasehold racket as Barratt London drops ground rents

Bob Bessell steps in as LKP’s new interim chair

Hackney charges leaseholders £750 for EWS1

Only seven cladding sites in Tory constituencies … as Build! Build! Build! developers pour in party donations

Martin Boyd resigns from LKP

You are better than commercial developers and freeholders so be kind over the cladding catastrophe, LKP urges housing association conference

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Oh, dear! Long Harbour private equity speculators buy freehold where ground rent FALLS from £250 to £143

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

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

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

ARMA becomes a lobbyist for freeholders