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You are here: Home / News / MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster

MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster

July 18, 2018 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

MPs turned out in force this morning to meet leasehold demonstrators organised by the National Leasehold Campaign, most of who arrived by coach from the North West.

Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick, patrons of LKP and co-chairs of the APPG on leasehold reform, were on hand, as was Justin Madders, the deputy chair who is moving a Bill in the autumn to make enfranchisement and lease extension a simple multiple of 10 times annual ground rent.

Also present were Labour front bench housing spokesman John Healey and his deputy Sarah Jones, the shadow housing minister. And Mike Amesbury, Andy Slaughter, Faisal Rashid and other MPs.

The demonstrators from the North West were joined by those in the South East, temporarily pushing aside the EU remain protestors from their pitch at Old Palace Yard, which they have occupied for months.

There will be an article in the Guardian tomorrow. The Mail on Sunday was on hand. And BBC news footage was taken.

The demonstrators wore burgundy T shirts and cheered on by a trans woman leaseholder in a wedding dress, who added a striking note to the event.

MPs and leaseholders outside Westminster this afternoon
MPs supporting ripped-off leaseholders: Justin Madders and National Leasehold Campaign founders Katie Kendrick and Joanne Darbyshire, with front bench shadow housing secretary John Healey
John Healey, shadow communities secretary with National Leasehold Campaign founders Katie Kendrick, Joanne Darbyshire and Cath Williams
Jim Fitzpatrick, LKP patron and co-chair of APPG on leasehold, with Joanne Darbyshire and Katie Kendrick

Sarah Jones, shadow housing minister with Katie Kendrick and Cath Williams
Sir Peter Bottomley and Katie Kendrick, joint founder of the National Leasehold Campaign
Sir Peter Bottomley, Katie Kendrick, co-founder of the National Leasehold campaign, and Sebastian O’Kelly, LKP trustee

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  1. Chris

    July 18, 2018 at 9:26 pm

    Brilliant show NLC members! Sorry we all couldn’t be there but we are all supporting the cause. Nice to see the MPs who are trying to make change happen as well.

  2. Nick

    July 19, 2018 at 8:07 am

    There needed to be a much stronger Conservative presence. After all, they are the ruling party!

  3. Simon

    July 19, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    Are the Conservatives serious about leasehold reform, apart from better ‘regulation’ of managing agents ?That could add to costs for all. RTM for a start needs to be made much easier, a majority of leaseholders who bother to vote should be enough to get change. After all some recent governments have got elected with just 20% of the total electorate supporting them. Get costly solicitors and surveyors out of the system. Justin Madders proposals seem very sensible. Could those who extend a lease of a flat instead buy a share of the freehold to the building, so ultimately the main freeholder does not have a majority interest ? Difficult to get sensible reforms when a large minority of leaseholders often take little or no interest in the management of their building.

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