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You are here: Home / Latest News / Law Commission doesn’t expect leasehold reform before 2020

Law Commission doesn’t expect leasehold reform before 2020

November 29, 2018 //  by Admin4

By Harry Scoffin

The Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins has dashed hopes of early leasehold reform, telling the Law Gazette that legislative change won’t come before 2020.

Speaking at a consultation exercise at the Ministry of Justice on Monday, Professor Hopkins said that his team is working to an “accelerated time-table”, but that new legislation on leasehold would take at least four months to pass through Parliament. That is, assuming there is parliamentary time for it.

Leasehold Reform Act 2019? Unlikely, commission warns

The Law Commission received one of the biggest postbags of responses after asking whether leasehold law needed to be reformed, the Gazette has learned. However, the independent body tasked with reviewing legislation has warned frustrated leaseholders that they are unlikely to see reforms in 2019.

Although leasehold reform has a high profile, Professor Hopkins hinted that Brexit fallout meant it would be inconceivable to get leasehold reform through Parliament next year. It “is under certain other pressures at the moment. You’re not going to see a Leasehold Reform Act 2019,” he added.

In a boost for leaseholders of flats in mixed-use blocks, the Law Gazette reports that attendees raised objections to the bar on collective enfranchisement for leaseholders where 25% of the building is commercial.

The Law Commission has endorsed this restriction, although it is open to consultation. LKP regards 25% as an arbitrary cut-off as leaseholders have the majority financial stake in a building but remain disempowered.

Poisonous leasehold disputes in mixed-use sites, such as those at Canary Riverside and West India Quay, have witnessed leaseholders thwarted because of this rule.

At the LKP meeting earlier this month at the Law Society, in central London, Professor Hopkins stated that the government has already made a clear political judgment. This informs the work of the Law Commission, with the key insight being “the lack of autonomy and control leaseholders have because of the nature of the relationship with their landlord”.

The Law Commission introduction stresses that leasehold is NOT home ownership, but a form of tenancy agreement. This is something LKP would like to see adopted in developers’ advertising and estate agency.

The consultation on the Law Commission’s enfranchisement plans ends 7 January. A spokesperson for the Law Commission has told the LKP: “The Right to Manage consultation paper will be published in early 2019, and the consultation will last for two months.”

A consultation on commonhold is also to be launched next month.

Related posts:

Professor Nicholas HopkinsIf you want to reform enfranchisement push government hard, is message of Law Commission Martin BoydReform laws on track for ‘second half of 2020’, Martin Boyd tells Property Week Law Commission praises LKP to Sir Peter Bottomley over ‘crucial’ role in obtaining leasehold reforms Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs? Is Law Commission wobbly over 25% commercial exclusion to collective enfranchisement? (Let’s hope so)

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Law Gazette, Mixed-use sites, Professor Nick Hopkins, West India Quay

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  1. chas

    November 30, 2018 at 3:51 pm

    From reports in the Gazette we are informed the parliamentary process to pass legislation takes at least four months and that parliament is under pressures at the moment, so no Leasehold Reform Act 2019. It does seem from reports, leasehold reform is high on the government’s agenda?

    Last year the government announced a crackdown on unfair leasehold practices. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s consultation on implementing reforms to the leasehold system has now closed. The Gazette has also learned that the commission is exploring management rights, and the ability for leaseholders to acquire the rights to manage a building even if they don’t own the freehold.

    Another consultation paper could be published next year – WOW another?

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