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Parliament

About the APPG

The APPG holds at least four meetings a year on issues such as holding managing agents and freeholders to account, and pushing forward the secondary legislation to make the 2024 Act effective.

Patron MPs

LKP is secretariat of the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform. APPG chairs are MPs: Amanda Hack, Neil O’Brien, Joseph Powell and Joshua Reynolds. Sir Peter Bottomley, former Father of the House, and Sir Ed Davey are patrons of LKP.

Join the APPG

The APPG in May 2025 has 83 members. In the last Parliament had more than 180 MPs members and Lords. Please join the APPG by emailing us at APPG@leaseholdknowledge.com

APPG 2025

MPs step forward in the new All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform

MPs step forward in the new All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform

Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

Freeholders win right for a judicial review to challenge 2024 Act

Freeholders win right for a judicial review to challenge 2024 Act

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

Is the betrayal narrative over leasehold reform being over-played?

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

MPs set up new parliamentary group to reform leasehold

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

We all agree, yet we are still waiting for the leasehold reforms promised years ago, says Katie Kendrick

We all agree, yet we are still waiting for the leasehold reforms promised years ago, says Katie Kendrick
Jack Spearman

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

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

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

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

Full APPG news

Latest in Parliament

Leasehold Bill: What a missed opportunity, with just about every MP wanting to go further …

February 28, 2024

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lee Rowley MP, Matthew Pennycook MP, Neil O'Brien MP, Richard Fuller MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Dump the two-storey ‘ill-considered’ planning give-away to freeholders, says Sir Julian Lewis

December 16, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Leasehold and Freehold BIll, Permitted development, Sir Julian Lewis MP

Insurance pooling to lessen leasehold insurance bills appears to have stalled – but not commissions – says Sir Stephen Timms

December 16, 2023

Category: Insurance, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Association of British Insurers, Financial Conduct Authority, Insurance, Leasehold and Freehold BIll, Sir Stephen Timms

We promised ‘fairness and transparency for leaseholders’ so let’s do it, says Bob Blackman

December 16, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Bob Blackman MP, leasehold and commonhold reform

MPs call for fleecehold of private estates to be stamped out

December 16, 2023

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Fleecehold, Gareth Johnson MP, Kevan Jones MP, Leasehold and Freehold BIll, Natalie Elphicke MP

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

December 16, 2023

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Clive Betts MP, Coppen Estates, European Court of Human Rights

Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And where is Lord Best’s report on regulating property managers?

December 16, 2023

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Leasehold and Freehold BIll, Lord Best, Michael Gove, Samantha Dixon MP

‘Even Del Boy had limits, Mr Moskovitz,’ Stella Creasy tells MPs

December 16, 2023

Category: ARMA, Israel Moskovitz, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ARMA, Israel Moskovitz, Leasehold and Freehold BIll, Lord Best, Samantha Dixon MP, Stella Creasy MP, Triplerose, Y and Y Management

Stop this ‘bad freeholders’ nonsense. Abuse in leasehold is organised, trained and systemic, says Ruth Cadbury MP

December 16, 2023

Category: ARMA, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Leasehold and Freehold BIll, Ruth Cadbury MP

Full Parliament news

National Leasehold Campaign

This is a closed group on Facebook which has 35,000 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

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

May 8, 2023

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, RetirementTag: ARCO, Ben Rosewall, Bob Bessell, Dan Healy, David Fothergill, Legal and General, Local Government Association, Melanie Gowers, Michael Voges, Pauline Jones, Retirement Security Limited, Sebastian O’Kelly

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

January 26, 2023

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Rawdon Crozier, Sections 21 and 22

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

October 15, 2021

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Sir David Amess MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Building Safety Bill

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

July 6, 2021

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Bill, Martin Boyd

Sonia McColl OBE

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

May 13, 2021

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Darren Baseley, Sonia McColl OBE, Stewart Gregory

Bishop of St Albans

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

March 16, 2021

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG, Bishop of St Albans, Florence Eshalomi MP

fire safety in flats

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

January 5, 2021

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

APPG on leasehold reform

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

December 10, 2020

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News

Hilary Benn leasehold

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

October 14, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Daisy Cooper MP, Hilary Benn MP, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Michael Mansfield QC, Permitted development, Rooftop development, Ruth Cadbury MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Bob Neill MP

Sarah Jones cladding

APPG gains more new members

April 10, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Heather Wheeler MP, John Healey MP, Sarah Jones MP

Giles Peaker shared ownership

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

March 26, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Shared ownershipTag: Giles Peaker, Ruth Cadbury MP, Shared ownership

Professor James Driscoll

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

January 16, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News

Alison Thewliss MP

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

January 15, 2020

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Alison Thewliss MP, Glasgow Harbour, Professor Susan Bright

Martin Boyd

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

January 14, 2020

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: APPG

Professor Susan Bright

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

January 14, 2020

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Professor Susan Bright

Dr Jonathan Evans

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

January 14, 2020

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Dr Jonathan Evans

Professor Nicholas Hopkins

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

January 14, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News, Law Commission, Lease Extension, NewsTag: Enfranchisement, Law Commission, Professor Nick Hopkins

APPG recognises efforts of Law Commission to improve enfranchisement

January 9, 2020

Category: APPG, Latest News, Law Commission, News, Parliament

Leasehold Knowledge Partnership Parliamentary award

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

July 16, 2019

Category: APPG, Latest News, NewsTag: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Healey MP, Justin Madders MP, Martin Boyd, Mike Amesbury MP, Rosie Cooper MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

July 12, 2019

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Boris Johnson, MPs' APPG on leasehold, Sir Lynton Crosby

Full APPG news

Communities Select Committee

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

March 15, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ACM, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Eric Pickles, EWS1, Florrie's law, Housing and Communities Select Committee, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, NHBC, PAS 9980, Reform Party, Richard Tice

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

December 2, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Building Safety Bill, Building safety fund, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, conveyancing, Dame Judith Hackitt, EWS1, Grenfell cladding, Health and Safety Executive, Lord Best, Melissa Lawford, Rachel Hopkins MP, Rendall and Rittner, Richard Davidoff, Robert Booth, RoPA, Sir Ken Knight, Sir Peter Bottomley, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Law Society

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

April 29, 2021

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee

Liam Spender

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

March 9, 2021

Category: Communities Select Committee, Insurance, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Clive Betts MP, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Florence Eshalomi

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

March 8, 2021

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Bob Blackman MP, Clive Betts MP, Florence Eshalomi MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Clive Betts MPs

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

November 24, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News

Lord Greenhalgh cladding scandal

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

October 21, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Christopher Pincher MP, Clive Betts MP, Kit Malthouse MP, Lord Greenhalgh

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

October 6, 2020

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABI, ARMA, Building Safety Bill, Building safety reform, Cladding scandal, Insurance, James Dalton, MHCLG, Nigel Glen, Professor Nick Hopkins, Richard Silva

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

October 4, 2020

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Adriatic Land, ARMA, Building Safety Bill, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Charter Quay, Commonhold, Dame Judith Hackitt, Homeground Management Limited, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Martin Boyd, New Festival Quarter, Nigel Glen, Recognised Residents' Association, Richard Silva

Full Communities Select Committee news

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