• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Before Header

  • Home
  • What is LKP
  • Find everything …
  • Contact
Donate

Leasehold Knowledge Management Logo

Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

Mobile Menu

  • Home
  • What is LKP
  • Find everything …
  • Contact
  • Advice
  • News
    • Find everything …
    • About Peverel group
    • APPG
    • ARMA
    • Bellway
    • Benjamin Mire
    • Brixton Hill Court
    • Canary Riverside
    • Charter Quay
    • Chelsea Bridge Wharf
    • Cladding scandal
    • Competition and Markets Authority / OFT
    • Commonhold
    • Communities Select Committee
    • Conveyancing Association
    • Countrywide
    • MHCLG
    • E&J Capital Partners
    • Exit fees
    • FirstPort
    • Fleecehold
    • Forfeiture
    • FPRA
    • Gleeson Homes
    • Ground rent scandal
    • Hanover
    • House managers flat
    • House of Lords
    • Housing associations
    • Informal lease extension
    • Insurance
    • IRPM
    • JB Leitch
    • Jim Fitzpatrick MP
    • John Christodoulou
    • Justin Bates
    • Justin Madders MP
    • Law Commission
    • LEASE
    • Liam Spender
    • Local authority leasehold
    • London Assembly
    • Louie Burns
    • Martin Paine
    • McCarthy and Stone
    • Moskovitz / Gurvits
    • Mulberry Mews
    • National Leasehold Campaign
    • Oakland Court
    • Park Homes
    • Parliament
    • Persimmon
    • Peverel
    • Philip Rainey QC
    • Plantation Wharf
    • Press
    • Property tribunal
    • Prostitutes
    • Quadrangle House
    • Redrow
    • Retirement
    • Richard Davidoff
    • RICS
    • Right To Manage Federation
    • Roger Southam
    • Rooftop development
    • RTM
    • Sean Powell
    • SFO
    • Shared ownership
    • Sinclair Gardens Investments
    • Sir Ed Davey
    • Sir Peter Bottomley
    • St George’s Wharf
    • Subletting
    • Taylor Wimpey
    • Tchenguiz
    • Warwick Estates
    • West India Quay
    • William Waldorf Astor
    • Windrush Court
  • Parliament
  • Accreditation
  • [Custom]
Menu
  • Advice
  • News
      • Find everything …
      • About Peverel group
      • APPG
      • ARMA
      • Bellway
      • Benjamin Mire
      • Brixton Hill Court
      • Canary Riverside
      • Charter Quay
      • Chelsea Bridge Wharf
      • Cladding scandal
      • Competition and Markets Authority / OFT
      • Commonhold
      • Communities Select Committee
      • Conveyancing Association
      • Countrywide
      • MHCLG
      • E&J Capital Partners
      • Exit fees
      • FirstPort
      • Fleecehold
      • Forfeiture
      • FPRA
      • Gleeson Homes
      • Ground rent scandal
      • Hanover
      • House managers flat
      • House of Lords
      • Housing associations
      • Informal lease extension
      • Insurance
      • IRPM
      • JB Leitch
      • Jim Fitzpatrick MP
      • John Christodoulou
      • Justin Bates
      • Justin Madders MP
      • Law Commission
      • LEASE
      • Liam Spender
      • Local authority leasehold
      • London Assembly
      • Louie Burns
      • Martin Paine
      • McCarthy and Stone
      • Moskovitz / Gurvits
      • Mulberry Mews
      • National Leasehold Campaign
      • Oakland Court
      • Park Homes
      • Parliament
      • Persimmon
      • Peverel
      • Philip Rainey QC
      • Plantation Wharf
      • Press
      • Property tribunal
      • Prostitutes
      • Quadrangle House
      • Redrow
      • Retirement
      • Richard Davidoff
      • RICS
      • Right To Manage Federation
      • Roger Southam
      • Rooftop development
      • RTM
      • Sean Powell
      • SFO
      • Shared ownership
      • Sinclair Gardens Investments
      • Sir Ed Davey
      • Sir Peter Bottomley
      • St George’s Wharf
      • Subletting
      • Taylor Wimpey
      • Tchenguiz
      • Warwick Estates
      • West India Quay
      • William Waldorf Astor
      • Windrush Court
  • Parliament
  • Accreditation
You are here: Home / Latest News / LKP trustees tell MHCLG that Martin Boyd can return to LKP any time

LKP trustees tell MHCLG that Martin Boyd can return to LKP any time

January 11, 2021 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

LKP trustees today told the permanent secretary of the MHCLG that former chair Martin Boyd can return to the organisation whenever he likes.

The invitation was made clear to officials along with a complete rejection of their inquiry into the disastrous meeting between LKP and Sir Peter Bottomley with Wanda Goldwag, the chair of the Leasehold Advisory Service, on April 25 2019.

The following letter was send to MHCLG today:

January 11 2021

FAO Jeremy Pocklington, permanent secretary MHCLG

cc
Sir Peter Bottomley, Leasehold APPG chair and LKP patron
Justin Madders MP, ditto
Sir Ed Davey MP, ditto
Lord Greenhalgh, MHCLG housing minister

Bob Bessell, chair, LKP
Katie Kendrick, LKP trustee
Dean Buckner, LKP trustee
Joanne Darbyshire, LKP trustee
Cath Williams, LKP trustee

Re Martin Boyd treatment by MHCLG

Dear Mr Pocklington,

I write to inform you, on the instruction of the chair of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership Bob Bessell and the trustees, that they have decided to invite Martin Boyd to resume his position at the charity.

The trustees do so fully aware of the ruling of the Parliamentary Ombudsman last November, which took more than a year to look into this matter.

The department only made available its “notes” titled Formal Complaint about LEASE chair on November 25 2020. These are attached.

It is clear that it questioned Wanda Goldwag about this meeting, and unaccountably did not contact any of the other participants, who were: Sir Peter Bottomley, his senior parliamentary advisor Katherine O’Riordan, Sebastian O’Kelly, CEO of the charity, and Joanne Darbyshire, co-founder of the National Leasehold Campaign and an LKP trustee.

We note that the official who investigated this matter at MHCLG concluded:

“Having considered all the available evidence I strongly believe to be accurate WG’s claims that negative LKP tweets have caused distress to LEASE staff.”

We also see that the notes state that Ms Goldwag denied accusing Martin Boyd of “targeting individual members of LEASE”.

Nonetheless, LEASE staff “cried in meetings because of the criticism they have received”; counselling services were introduced and “Individual staff members had mentioned MB personally”.

Yet the only evidence for this are the published and accountable tweets by Martin Boyd.

Meanwhile, LKP has been contacted by staff at LEASE complaining of a bullying culture at the organisation, and referencing the premature departure of senior staff. This matter has been raised with the department by Sunday Times journalist Martina Lees.

Having considered the MHCLG’s partial and one-sided account of this disgraceful matter, the trustees of LKP are unpersuaded that a sincere effort was made to address it.

Our former chair has been unfairly smeared and ranks have closed to perpetuate this smear.

The trustees unanimously agree that Mr Boyd be invited to return to his post with immediate effect.

Yours sincerely,
Sebastian O’Kelly CEO, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

Loader Loading…
EAD Logo Taking too long?

Reload Reload document
| Open Open in new tab

Related posts:

Martin BoydMartin Boyd resigns from LKP Martin BoydMartin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE Martin BoydReform laws on track for ‘second half of 2020’, Martin Boyd tells Property Week Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd praised in House of Commons: put them on the board of LEASE and clear up the ‘muck’ of leasehold Bob BessellBob Bessell steps in as LKP’s new interim chair

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Jeremy Pocklington, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Wanda Goldwag

Latest Tweets

Tweets by @LKPleasehold

Mentions

Anthony Essien (34) APPG (37) ARMA (87) Bellway (30) Benjamin Mire (32) Cladding scandal (71) Clive Betts MP (31) CMA (45) Commonhold (52) Competition and Markets Authority (41) Countryside Properties plc (33) FirstPort (42) Grenfell cladding (56) Ground rents (54) Harry Scoffin (150) James Brokenshire MP (31) Jim Fitzpatrick (35) Jim Fitzpatrick MP (30) Justin Bates (40) Justin Madders MP (67) Katie Kendrick (37) Law Commission (60) LEASE (66) Leasehold Advisory Service (62) Leasehold houses (32) Long Harbour (48) Martin Boyd (80) McCarthy and Stone (39) National Leasehold Campaign (38) Persimmon (49) Peverel (61) Property tribunal (49) Redrow (30) Retirement (37) Robert Jenrick (33) Roger Southam (47) Sajid Javid (38) Sebastian O’Kelly (55) Sir Peter Bottomley (201) Taylor Wimpey (106) Tchenguiz (33) The Guardian (33) The Times (31) Vincent Tchenguiz (43) Waking watch contracts (40)
Previous Post: « Sunday Times: officials trying to gag leaseholders. Daily Mail: Wade funding proposal will crash property market
Next Post: Why is Michael Wade rushing forced loans on leaseholders before Grenfell Inquiry considers government and housebuilders’ failings? Michael Wade»

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Michael Epstein

    January 11, 2021 at 4:08 pm

    For the record, Those that know Martin Boyd, those that have worked with him, those that have read any of his articles and those that have been helped by him, know that his character has been totally traduced in a crude attempt to sully his reputation as part of a scurrilous and unworthy attempt to deflect justified criticism of Lease in general and Wanda Goldwag in particular.
    Sadly this is not the first time Lease has attempted to undermine The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, which alongside The National Leasehold Campaign appear to afford the only protection and hope leaseholders have?

Above Footer

Advising leaseholders. Avoiding disasters.
Stopping forfeiture. Exposing abuses. Urging reform.

We depend on individuals for the majority of our funding.

Support Us and Donate

LKP Managing Agents

Become an LKP Managing Agent

Common Ground
Adam Church
Blocnet property management2

Stay in Touch

To achieve victory in the leasehold game where you are playing against professionals and with rules that they know all too well - stay informed with the LKP newsletter.
Sign Up for Newsletter

Professional Directory

The following advertisements are from firms that seek business from leaseholders.
Click on the logos for company profiles.

Footer

About LKP

  • What is LKP
  • Privacy and data

Categories

  • News
  • Cladding scandal
  • Commonhold
  • Law Commission
  • Fleecehold
  • Parliament
  • Press
  • APPG

Contact

Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
Open Data Institute
5th Floor
Kings Place
London N1 9AG

sok@leaseholdknowledge.com

Copyright © 2023 Leasehold Knowledge Partnership | All rights reserved
Leasehold Knowledge Partnership Limited (company number: 08999652) is a company limited by guarantee that is a registered charity (number: 1162584) with the Charities Commission.
LKP website is hosted at www.34sp.com
Website by Callia Web