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APPG hears agony of Grenfell cladding on private sites, while Lendlease sites head to tribunal to get leaseholders to pay

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting

APPG July 11: The case for ground rents from McCarthy and Stone

APPG July 11: Retirement fees whether ground rents or event fees need to be for defined services not open-ended profits, says AgeUK

APPG July 11: Taylor Wimpey deserves no praise for its cheating RPI ground rent relief scheme, says leasehold house customer

Prime Minister ‘not ruling anything out’ with freeholders and builders over responsibility for Grenfell cladding

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

Leaseholders in local authority and housing association blocks will have Grenfell cladding bill paid by government

National housebuilders ‘sold an illusion’ of home ownership, says Justin Madders MP

Gleeson CEO Jolyon Harrison responds over ‘fleasehold’ row and asks Justin Madders for an apology

Please exempt retirement housebuilders from ground rent ban, pleads Sir Desmond Swayne

69% of new houses in NW are leasehold. Many owners stuck in limbo. And ban fleecehold covenants, says Maria Eagle

Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?

New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

All Party Parliamentary Group, April 26: Barratt praised at Citiscape; Galliard reviled at New Capital Quay; Taylor Wimpey scorned over ground rent review scheme

Civil service are fired up to reform leasehold, helped by the ‘personal commitment’ of the Secretary of State … Er

Taylor Wimpey help should extend to buyers of re-sales with rip-off ground rents, says Andrew Selous

Law Commissioner Nicholas Hopkins hopes his work prompts complete reform of leasehold

You need professional property managers to deal with fire safety in high-rises, says FirstPort CEO Nigel Howell

Praise for Barratt’s – and LKP – from Citiscape leaseholders

Galliard Homes ‘needs to take responsibility for what it has built’

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

New Housing Minister hits the ground running

Justin Madders delays Leasehold Reform Bill and calls on the Government to provide justice for leaseholders

John Healey says it’s ‘wrong’ for leaseholders to have to pay to remove Grenfell cladding

Leasehold houses to be banned and future ground rents set to zero, announces Sajid Javid

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

Commons debate on leasehold December 21

DCLG urged to inform leaseholders over Grenfell cladding bills … and stop snubbing LKP

Views of Tory MP Crispin Blunt: Government should ‘nullify’ ground rents. End ‘feudal’ leasehold. Bring in commonhold. And stop developers’ and solicitors’ ‘unconscionable’ cheating of the naïve

A second backbench debate on leasehold issues