LEASE is – yet again – excluding the ordinary leasehold owner and privileging
its information.
It is holding this event for those who pay:
LEASE – 1pm 11th June 2013 Professional Webinar on the new LVT rules at £50 + vat.
The content of this webinar should be available to all leasehold owners at no cost.
“We would particularly like to hear this webinar as our freeholder has just had two s20 served on us, which will require a visit to the LVT,” says a leasehold owner involved in the Daejan v Benson litigation.
“Even if we wanted to listen to this webinar we could not, as it will be broadcast at 1pm – just as our latest s20 dispensation case is heard at the LVT at 1.30pm on June 11th.
“You couldn’t make it up!”
Here is the clearest example possible of the corrosive nature of LEASE’s commercial activities.
Either be a public body and serve leasehold owners – which is what Parliament intended – or become a private seminar service and monetise as much as you wish.
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Oh come on that’s a trivial and piddling point 🙂 LEASE has to make money and is offering a commercial service to professionals, making it sustainable as a public service, while rightly offering it to all and sundry. There is no basis to say that everything should be free. Organised residents groups/companies and even LKP can record the seminar ( OS freeware) and listen to it later and £50 plus VAT is not a lot in the scheme of the service charges/group costs overall or the often 6 figure investment in the majority of homes.
No its not a piddling point. We have a new set of rules about to come in to force in three weeks time. Why should the public body paid for by tax payers to providing this information for free need to charge £6o. It may not be a huge amount of money but we pay more than a million pounds for LEASE to provide this information already.