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You are here: Home / Latest News / Bottomley thanks Number 10 for leasehold reform … while colleague brands Persimmon ‘crooks, cowboys and con artists’ at prime minister’s questions

Bottomley thanks Number 10 for leasehold reform … while colleague brands Persimmon ‘crooks, cowboys and con artists’ at prime minister’s questions

July 17, 2019 //  by Admin4

By Harry Scoffin

APPG co-chair Sir Peter Bottomley lavished praise on Theresa May and her chief of staff Gavin Barwell at prime minister’s questions today.

Mr Barwell, a former housing minister, was set to present an award to LKP heads Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd at a reception in Parliament on Monday but was unable to attend due to urgent travel.

In recognition of Mr Barwell’s effort in shifting government attention to leasehold and commonhold issues, Sir Peter said:

“I thank the Prime Minister and her chief of staff Gavin Barwell for all that they have done, with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on residential leasehold reform; there is now a prospect of ending unfairness and exploitation.”

Beyond leasehold concerns, Sir Peter used the opportunity to ask the prime minister about policing.

Mrs May did not directly respond to his remarks on leasehold reform.

Meanwhile, Harlow MP Robert Halfon launched a blistering attack on Persimmon over poor build quality. He has demanded his constituents get full compensation:

“On Saturday, I met a group of residents in Harlow, many of them on Government Help to Buy schemes, who moved into homes built by Persimmon Homes that are shoddily built with severe damp and crumbling walls. In the eyes of my residents, Persimmon are crooks, cowboys and con artists. Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister hold the company to account, ensure that residents receive proper compensation, and urge the chief executive to come to Harlow to meet the families who have suffered so much? Persimmon Homes should not behave in this way.”

The prime minister accepted that the volume housebuilders have to up the quality of the properties they sell:

“My right hon. Friend raises a very important issue. As we increase the housing supply, it is important that the quality of new build homes continues to improve. We set out in our housing White Paper an ambition and a target of a housing market that works for everyone. We expect developers to deliver good-quality housing. We have already announced our intention for a new homes ombudsman to protect the rights of homebuyers and to hold developers to account. We expect all developers to build their homes to a good quality standard. These are homes that people will be living in for many years. They deserve those standards.”

Mr Halfon’s intervention comes just days after the Channel 4 Dispatches expose, Britain’s New Build Scandal, which aired on Monday and was highly critical of Persimmon.

In response to the programme, Persimmon conceded “that on too many occasions in the past we have fallen short. We apologise without reservation to the customers featured in this programme.”

LKP understands that Cath Williams, one of the three house lessees running the National Leasehold Campaign, assisted Channel 4 researchers with the documentary.

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  1. Paddy

    July 17, 2019 at 6:55 pm

    Personally I would thank nobody in government just yet.

    An existing leaseholder today has the same lack of rights in practice as three years ago.

    What has happened is that leasehold values have crashed, as far as I can see.

    New buyers are somewhat better warned orf.

    Freeholders, unlike developers shifting new builds, care nought for crashing values as lease extensions etc are valued in the artificial metaphysical realm.

    Agents still make the same as three years ago. Still free of restraints.

    RTM is still virtually unworkable.

    When exactly is a reform bill due?

    Next session? One after? 2025?

  2. Chris

    July 17, 2019 at 8:23 pm

    Spot on Paddy. Lots of waffle and empty promises……….ad nauseum!
    Yet whilst pandering to BTL who made a bad leasehold investment….the grannies are still being ripped off.

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