Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform

Parliament

About the APPG

The APPG holds at least four meetings a year on issues such as the leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals, and now the disaster of combustible cladding.

Patron MPs

LKP is secretariat of the APPG and organises the agenda of its meetings. APPG chairs – Sir Peter Bottomley, Justin Madders and Sir Ed Davey – are also the patrons of LKP.

Join the APPG

The last Parliament had 177 MPs members and Lords; we do not anticipate fewer with this one. Please join the APPG by emailing us at APPG@leaseholdknowledge.com

APPG January 9

Jack Spearman

We support leasehold reform but not abolishing it and leaseholders are served by ground rents, says the Residential Freehold Association

Rachel Maclean MP

Housing Minister Rachel Maclean pledges to reform LEASE, calls out Churchill Retirement Living, pledges to end the ‘assured tenancy trap’ and reiterates commitments to reform leasehold

Net Zero is going to be difficult throughout the world … but with leasehold tenure, next to impossible

Investors see gold in retirement housing, but oldies have taken a look and remain wary … Brighter developers are pushing for change

After seven efforts at reform – with more on the way – Sections 21 and 22 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are still flawed service charge protections

APPG members list – current membership 183

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Building Safety Bill

Building Safety Bill: Made by officials. By themselves. Talking to themselves. Will the cogs turn?

Sonia McColl OBE

Trial for two accused of stealing the home of park homes campaigner Sonia McColl OBE

Bishop of St Albans

APPG leasehold chairs call on Lords to support McPartland-Smith amendment tomorrow

Full APPG news

Latest in Parliament

What is the point of this government, asks Lisa Nandy as it wriggles over promised leasehold reforms

Leasehold reforms this parliamentary session, says minister

Lord Greenhalgh

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

Building Safety Bill

Galliard and Lendlease were quick to get leaseholders on the hook for building safety bills, now they won’t sign Michael Gove’s agreement to pay up

Lee Rowley

Dismal picture of leasehold emerges from MPs’ debate. But no government commitment on reforms

Barry Gardner

MPs briefing: Stop trying to reform leasehold. Just bring it to an end, and join the rest of the world

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

Metropolitan housing association MTVH tells MPs: we won’t collect ground rent, we have ditched marriage value and all leases are 990 years (where possible)

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

Full Parliament news

National Leasehold Campaign

This is a closed group on Facebook which has 17,500 members. It is an invaluable forum for leaseholders to exchange views and seek advice from others who, very likely, have had the same problem

Join the NLC here

News from APPG

fire safety in flats

Freeholders must pay for cladding – or lose freeholds, say LKP patron MPs

APPG on leasehold reform

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

Hilary Benn leasehold

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Sarah Jones cladding

APPG gains more new members

Giles Peaker shared ownership

Shared ownership: a misnomer that can be worse than renting and worse than leasehold, says solicitor

Professor James Driscoll

APPG chairs offer condolences to the family of Professor James Driscoll, LKP trustee

Alison Thewliss MP

Special thanks to SNP Alison Thewliss MP for joining APPG to end leasehold unfairness (as Scottish system is so much better)

Martin Boyd

MPs demand action on cladding scandal, but the question remains: what?

Professor Susan Bright

‘Propriety’: A genteel word to transform our rapacious residential property market

Dr Jonathan Evans

Government’s approach to cladding crisis has been to duck the blame, says engineer who was shown the door by officials

Professor Nicholas Hopkins

If you want to reform enfranchisement push government hard, is message of Law Commission

APPG recognises efforts of Law Commission to improve enfranchisement

Leasehold Knowledge Partnership Parliamentary award

Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell ‘delighted’ to be invited to present award to LKP

Boris Johnson signs up to the APPG as pressure grows on lawmakers to be bold on leasehold

Brokenshire announces £200m Grenfell cladding removal fund – hours after APPG meeting of leaseholders

Leasehold Advisory Service has ‘been under review’ for 10 years. Here are the findings …

APPG hears agony of Grenfell cladding on private sites, while Lendlease sites head to tribunal to get leaseholders to pay

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

APPG July 11: Retirement event fees ‘align interests of buyers and operators’, Michael Voges tells meeting

APPG July 11: The case for ground rents from McCarthy and Stone

Full APPG news

Communities Select Committee

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Liam Spender

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

Florence Eshalomi

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

Clive Betts MPs

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Lord Greenhalgh cladding scandal

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Full Communities Select Committee news