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You are here: Home / News / Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

April 15, 2020 //  by Admin4

Mike Amesbury holding government to account last month. The sparky Labour politician managed to prevent Weaver Vale from falling to the Tory ‘red wall’ onslaught, clinging on to the seat by just 562 votes in December, and was an early Keir Starmer backer. The resolute campaigner for leaseholder justice, who has a longstanding interest in housing policy, was rewarded by the new leader with the housing and planning brief days ago. Mr Amesbury is a former member of the Communities Select Committee, which after his departure went on to savage the entire leasehold system in an acclaimed and widely publicised report

By Harry Scoffin

Shadow housing minister Mike Amesbury has warned government of the disaster facing a generation of young home buyers owing to cladding bills.

Coming on top of post-Covid 19 job uncertainty, bills for waking watch fire wardens or cladding remediation of blocks lower than 18 meters, which are to receive no government handouts, could end the dream of home ownership for thousands of young buyers.

“In the months ahead they face loss of their homes on a major scale,” writes Mr Amesbury, the Labour MP for Weaver Vale who took over the housing and planning brief from Sarah Jones last week.

“This situation is hitting leaseholders in buildings with dangerous cladding hard.”

The letter is addressed to Christopher Pincher, the MP for Tamworth who replaced Esther McVey as minister of state for housing and planning in February.

Mr Amesbury asks his counterpart whether MHCLG, the ministry of housing, has made any assessment of whether the coronavirus emergency is aggravating the financial position of cladding leaseholders.

The shadow housing minister also references Leasehold Knowledge Partnership over Islington Gates, a cladding site in Birmingham set to be decanted because leaseholders are unable to give confidence to a consortium of jittery insurers.

The Labour politician then calls on government to intervene in the insurance market by underwriting the policies of troubled cladding sites.

His move follows LKP’s plea to Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick last month to take decisive action to prevent Islington Gates leaseholders from being evacuated amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Appeal to Robert Jenrick: Islington Gates faces evacuation if cladding bills not paid on April 1

Mr Amesbury goes on to highlight the troubles of shared owners at an A2 Dominion scheme in Hoxton, east London, who have been told they may have to shoulder the full cost of cladding removal despite having a 25% stake in the lease.

Shared owners are often assured tenants and therefore have fewer protections than leaseholders.

LKP reported the City Wharf Hoxton story here:

A2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton

Mr Amesbury’s cladding crisis intervention has been warmly applauded on social media, where many leaseholders in dangerously-clad blocks under 18 metres have responded.

Related posts:

City Wharf HoxtonA2 Dominion to dump 100% cladding costs on to 25% shared owners at City Wharf Hoxton Mike Amesbury Matthew PennycookShadow housing brief passes from Mike Amesbury to Matthew Pennycook Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners Clairon Property OmbudsmanHousing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners Islington Gates £8m billsAppeal to Robert Jenrick: Islington Gates faces evacuation if cladding bills not paid on April 1

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: A2Dominion, Christopher Pincher MP, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, EWS1, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Islington Gates, Mike Amesbury MP, Sarah Jones MP, Shared ownership, Waking watch contracts

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