Harry Scoffin

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

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

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

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

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

‘Everybody must call on government, whoever you vote for’ to resolve cladding crisis, says Starmer

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

Apsana Begum takes to Zoom to help trapped Poplar and Limehouse cladding victims

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Commons nods through Fire Safety Bill, amid plenty of grumbling by veteran MPs from all parties

Government may help over waking watch bills

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Milton Keynes cracks down on ‘fleecehold’ scams by housebuilders