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Martin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE

April 14, 2018 By admin 27 Comments

Martin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE

By Sebastian O’Kelly, LKP trustee There is only one outstanding candidate to be chair of LEASE and that is Martin Boyd. He is the only person involved in leasehold activism with the knowledge and abilities that will hold credibility with the sector. He is respected on this subject by ministers, MPs and civil servants. As […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Martin Boyd

LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

April 13, 2018 By Admin2 30 Comments

LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

The taxpayer-funded Leasehold Advisory Service, LEASE,  has announced this evening that its non-executive chair, Roger Southam, has resigned with immediate effect. No explanation for the resignation is given, but it follows calls from the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership that he resign, questions in the Commons from MPs such as Justin Madders and LKP patron Sir Peter […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam

National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE

April 1, 2018 By admin 34 Comments

National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE

  UPDATE: Has Roger Southam resigned from Savills? His LinkedIn profile suggest his employment there discontinued at the end of last month. He is now associated with the Eighty Nine Consultancy, which has no website and may be self-employment. The National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group today urged Roger Southam to resign as chairman of the […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Roger Southam Tagged With: Dorchester Ground Rent Management, Roberta Anderson, Roger Southam

LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough)

March 8, 2018 By admin

LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough)

‘Why was I left out?’ asks Sir Ed Davey Roger Southam, the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, issued a complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner about Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick He added LKP in the official complaint, in its role as secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group. “I am disappointed not […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Jim Fitzpatrick, Justin Madders MP, Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, Roger South, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley, Winifred Robinson

Thanks LKP for raising Grenfell issues. Now we are giving yet more money to LEASE, says housing minister

December 14, 2017 By admin

Thanks LKP for raising Grenfell issues. Now we are giving yet more money to LEASE, says housing minister

The housing minister Alok Sharma has thanked LKP for raising Grenfell cladding issues in private apartment blocks. We have intervened in a number of these cases, and will continue to do so. Our intervention at Blenheim Centre / Reflexion on behalf of leaseholders resulted in freeholder Legal and General agreeing to pay the £165,000 a […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Alok Sharma, Leasehold Advisory Service

We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister

November 21, 2017 By admin

We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister

Earlier this afternoon two of the co-chairs of the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform All Party Parliamentary Group made a submission to the backbench business committee for a debate on leasehold and commonhold issues. At approximately 2:47 Sir Peter Bottomley states that he wishes to “place on the record we are dissatisfied with the running of […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Alok Sharma, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam, Sir Peter Bottomley

Sector foxes warn that changing leasehold will be ‘dangerous’. But for whom?

September 10, 2017 By Admin2

Sector foxes warn that changing leasehold will be ‘dangerous’. But for whom?

The government now understands something that LKP has been saying for years: leasehold is a deeply flawed system. It is also a critical and growing part of the housing market in England and Wales. The Housing White Paper entitled “Fixing our broken housing market” launched in February 2017 made this very clear. This has come […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Parliament Tagged With: Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam

Roger Southam silenced on LEASE website as blog is removed

August 2, 2017 By admin

Roger Southam silenced on LEASE website as blog is removed

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam The blog of Roger Southam, the controversial chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, was removed this afternoon. The article was seen as an apologia of the existing leasehold system that has brought misery to tens of thousands of leasehold owners, particularly those in new-build […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Roger Southam Tagged With: LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

July 31, 2017 By admin

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

A message from LEASE Chair Roger Southam – The Leasehold Advisory Service July 2017 It is great to see the two DCLG consultations launched and the opportunity to have open engagement to address the issues. In reality leasehold is not the evil thing that is being portrayed. Doubling ground rents and unreasonable administration fees are […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Persimmon, Roger Southam, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam

Not the job of LEASE to warn ministers of leasehold houses scandal, Roger Southam tells BBC

April 13, 2017 By admin

Not the job of LEASE to warn ministers of leasehold houses scandal, Roger Southam tells BBC

  Roger Southam, the controversial chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, told the BBC today that it was not the quango’s job to alert ministers to the leasehold houses scandal. Mr Southam said that LEASE was not a lobbying organisation and that it was tasked with giving impartial advice to all in the sector. Asked […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Press, Roger Southam, Slider2, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: BBC R4 You and Yours, Justin Madders MP, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Lord Young, National Leasehold Campaign, Peter Haler, Roger Southam, Winifred Robinson, You and Yours

Motion of no confidence in Roger Southam as LEASE chair

April 12, 2017 By admin

Motion of no confidence in Roger Southam as LEASE chair

DCLG stakeholders’ meeting for leaseholders told property manager chairman must go UPDATE: Roger Southam and Jim Fitzpatrick MP are being jointly interviewed on leasehold homes tomorrow on BBC R4 You & Yours 12.15 A motion of no confidence in Roger Southam, chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, was proposed at the DCLG leasehold stakeholders’ meeting […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Roger Southam, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Gavin Barwell, Jim Fitzpatrick, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley

Is this LEASE being ‘unapologetically on the side of leaseholders’, Mr Barwell?

April 6, 2017 By admin

Is this LEASE being ‘unapologetically on the side of leaseholders’, Mr Barwell?

Two months after the housing minister told the Leasehold Advisory Service that it would be funded to free itself from commercial dependence on the sector, it is selling its services again. Gavin Barwell told LEASE at its humiliating annual conference on February 1, that: “What we really want is for [LEASE]  to help leaseholders. To […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News Tagged With: Gavin Barwell, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service

DCLG rejects second complaint about Roger Southam as LEASE chair. He was appointed on merit, it claims

March 28, 2017 By admin

DCLG rejects second complaint about Roger Southam as LEASE chair. He was appointed on merit, it claims

The Department of Communities and Local Government has rejected a second complaint about Roger Southam being the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service. “Mr Southam has not done anything in his private business that impinges upon his role as Chair of LEASE,” the DCLG tells the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group. The group represents many […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: DCLG, National Leasehold Campaign, Roger Southam

Bottomley tells BBC R4: Clear out sector stooges from LEASE. Stop barring LKP trustees. Bring justice quickly to leasehold house owners.

March 20, 2017 By admin

Bottomley tells BBC R4: Clear out sector stooges from LEASE. Stop barring LKP trustees. Bring justice quickly to leasehold house owners.

BBC R4 You & Yours link  Sir Peter Bottomley MP, patron of LKP, told the BBC today that the “scandal” of the Leasehold Advisory Service being packed with freeholder stooges needs to end. “The charity trustees of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership should be regarded as qualified to be on the board of the government advisory […]

Filed Under: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, LEASE, News, Press Tagged With: BBC, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Sir Peter Bottomley, You and Yours

MP Justin Madders questions role of Roger Southam as LEASE chair

February 27, 2017 By Admin2

MP Justin Madders questions role of Roger Southam as LEASE chair

Justin Madders, MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, called for an urgent review of the LEASE Chair in Parliament today. In his strongest statement yet, Madders explained that the LEASE Chair  “Roger Southam has extensive previous business interests with freeholders and has even boasted of maximising ground rent opportunities for them” The exchange in Parliament […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Roger Southam Tagged With: Anthony Essien, Gavin Barwell, Justin Madders MP, Roger Southam

Justin Madders MP demands LEASE chair has ‘no business interests in the leasehold sector’

February 24, 2017 By admin

Justin Madders MP demands LEASE chair has ‘no business interests in the leasehold sector’

Justin Madders MP has asked the Secretary of State at the DCLG Sajid Javid to ensure that the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service has “no business interests in the leasehold sector”. He has also asked that at least one member of the LEASE board be “an independent representative of leaseholders”. The written parliamentary questions […]

Filed Under: DCLG, Latest News, LEASE, News, Roger Southam, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Chainbow, DCLG, Justin Madders MP, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Roger Southam, Sajid Javid

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