Martin Paine £8,000 a year ground rent scandal

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LKP meeting with housing minister Gavin Barwell

On Tuesday LKP met the new post-Brexit housing minister Gavin Barwell, a Conservative MP representing an urban constituency at last. A former special adviser, Mr Barwell has some experience of leasehold and LKP has reported that his Croydon constituency has had two lease forfeiture cases every year since 2010. The meeting, which included DCLG civil […]

BBC R4 You and Yours reports MPs saying leasehold houses are a ‘national con’

BBC R4’s consumer programme reported the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform meeting of April 19. It can be heard hereat 34.00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m8z32 Reporter Melanie Abbott attended the meeting and has been covering this story since last December, which has resulted in a number of broadcasts. BBC R4 You and Yours heard that homeowners […]

BBC R4 You and Yours exposes Taylor Wimpey buyers facing doubled ground rents to £500 before 10 years have passed

It was another day in the media for Taylor Wimpey over leasehold houses scandal as BBC Radio 4’s influential You and Yours programme returned to the subject. It can be heard here at 34.40 This time reporter Simon Hoban looked at buyers whose leases had already eroded two or three years before purchase – meaning […]

Pete Redfern tells LKP how Taylor Wimpey will sort the ground rent scandal

Pete Redfern (left), the CEO of Taylor Wimpey has just sent the following email (below) to LKP. Taylor Wimpey proposes to vary the leases to “convert existing doubling leases to an alternative lease structure, specifically incorporating materially less expensive ground rent review terms”. LKP urges caution on the part of leaseholders to accept any deal […]

Guardian reports the Taylor Wimpey £130m offer to settle ground rent scandal

The Guardian earlier this afternoon reported the £130 million offer by Taylor Wimpey to draw a line under the ground rent scandal. The article reports the housebuilder telling its AGM that ground rent that double every 10 years were legal but “not consistent with our high standards of customer service and we are sorry for […]

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

APPG, April 26 A very different scene was outlined to the All Party Parliamentary Group on April 26 by Nigel Pickford (left), a leaseholder at New Capital Quay, another site with Grenfell cladding of more than 900 flats built by Galliard Homes only four years ago. The house builder also owns the freehold and the […]

Slough Council v Benji the Binman over Grenfell cladding costs at Nova House

Slough Council – which made the unaccountable decision to buy the freehold of Grenfell cladding site Nova House for £1 – was in tribunal earlier last week against a formidable opponent, Benjamin Pell, better know to journalists as Benji the Binman. Mr Pell, who came to national attention after raiding the dustbins of London’s leading […]

Martin Paine £8,000 a year ground rent scandal

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