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You are here: Home / Latest News / LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

April 13, 2018 //  by Admin2

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 Bottomley and an eruption of April 1 emails to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid from the Facebook group, the National Leasehold Campaign.

Sir Peter said:

“A number of reasons have caused many in the leasehold sector to question how Roger Southam could be the appropriate person to chair the Leasehold Advisory Service.

“It may now be possible for LEASE to speak openly about the abuses suffered for too long by too many residential leaseholders.”

Today it was confirmed to LKP by property giant Savills that Mr Southam is no longer in its employ. He sold his property management Chainbow to the company just over a year ago.

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

 

Motion of no confidence in Roger Southam as LEASE chair

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

National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE

The emails urging Mr Southam’s resignation on April 1 can be read on the link above.

The LEASE statement published on the evening of Friday the 13th of April reads:

“Today we are announcing that effective immediately Roger Southam will step down from his position as Chair of LEASE.

“Details of an interim Chair will be announced in due course.

“In the meantime, the Board and staff will continue to drive the organisation forward in meeting the needs of leaseholders and park home owners.”

The leasehold and commonhold reform APPG co-Chair MP’s Sir Peter Bottomley, Jim  Fitzpatrick and Sir Edward Davey along with vice Chair MP Justin Madders had long been critical of Mr Southams role and have called on the government to ask Mr Southam to stand down.

LKP welcomes the departure of Mr Southam, but remains deeply concerned by the long-standing management ethos of the Leasehold Advisory Service originally created Lord Young in the 1990’s. LEASE was set up as a temporary service to help inform all parties about the 1993 Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act.

 

Related posts:

LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner against Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick (and LKP, naturally enough) DCLG rejects second complaint about Roger Southam as LEASE chair. He was appointed on merit, it claims Roger Southam takes over as LEASE chair Motion of no confidence in Roger Southam as LEASE chair Roger Southam should not be LEASE chair, leaseholder tells housing minister

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  1. Paddy

    April 14, 2018 at 11:39 am

    It was a targeted and effective strike. All campaigners returned safely.

  2. Olly

    April 14, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    Great news. A real time for change. Lease needs a change of direction and given their wealth of knowledge in the area I wholeheartedly recommend Martin or Sebastian from LKP to at the very least be appointed to the board. Only that way then can we have real faith and trust that the right people are really leading from the front and are on our side in making the best decisions for all those implicated in the mess that is the current leasehold scandal.

  3. Faser Maldoom

    April 14, 2018 at 4:20 pm

    His maiden speech at a LEASE conference circa 2015 was the last such conference I attended (I endured it but walked out afterwards). He did an unsuccessful comedy turn or, at least, that is what I assumed that he intended. Be vigilant, the man will bounce back with his ego intact.

  4. Chris

    April 14, 2018 at 6:49 pm

    Great news. All we need now is to hear the feudal landlords, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor, Firstport, E&M and the directors of McCarthy Stone to mysteriously slip on a banana skin to meet their demise. One can hope. Novichok anyone?

  5. Fiona Advani

    April 14, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    The Leasehold world is a much greater place following Roger Southam resignation!!!

  6. Mer C

    April 16, 2018 at 12:51 pm

    Feel like I won lottery. Good riddance.Next……

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