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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)

Has The Times report ended bnb raves at West India Quay – where landlord John Christodoulou and manager Rendall and Rittner failed?

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

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

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

Please sort out ‘waking watch’ yourselves owing to coronavirus, says freeholder of Circle 109, Liverpool

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

The show must go on with Grenfell ACM cladding removal, says government … as the fire test it didn’t want YOU to see reveals HPL panels were lethal all along

Coronavirus drags property tribunal into a new tech world with hearings via Skype

Coronavirus lockdown should not stop work on cladding, government told

Rip-off retirement leasehold fees give Corrie’s Ken Barlow a feast of plot lines. Let’s hope he leads a right to manage rebellion …

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

Here’s commonhold, but it won’t be mandatory. Shula Rich recalls the compromises behind the 2002 Act