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, Sir Ed Davey and Jim Fitzpatrick – 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

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

APPG members list – current membership 162

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)

Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Full APPG news

Latest in Parliament

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Sir Bob Neill

Surveyors discouraged by insurers from carrying out EWS1, says Sir Bob Neill MP

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders 

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

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

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

APPG July 11: Retirement fees whether ground rents or event fees need to be for defined services not open-ended profits, says AgeUK

APPG July 11: Taylor Wimpey deserves no praise for its cheating RPI ground rent relief scheme, says leasehold house customer

Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders

APPG to protect park home owners has as secretariat the site owners’ own trade body!

Justin Madders delays Leasehold Reform Bill and calls on the Government to provide justice for leaseholders

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

Views of Tory MP Crispin Blunt: Government should ‘nullify’ ground rents. End ‘feudal’ leasehold. Bring in commonhold. And stop developers’ and solicitors’ ‘unconscionable’ cheating of the naïve

We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister

A second backbench debate on leasehold issues

We are being ripped off by private estate charges by developers and property predators just like leaseholders, says HORnet

MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground rents. Ignore pleas for self-regulation. Ban Help To Buy on rip-off leaseholds

APPG tells MPs: Ban ground rents. Introduce commonhold. Summons housebuilders to select committee. End rip-off ‘fleasehold’ permission fees on managed estates

Full APPG news

Communities Select Committee

Communities Select Committee

Communities Select Committee: cladding blocks still doing nothing by December should have their freehold removed

Lord Greenhalgh

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

Communties Select Committee cladding inquiry

March 23: Cladding showdown begins, with Communities Select Committee questioning Tchenguiz group … and LKP

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette  

Communities Select Committee reject the lobbying nonsense of the freeholders’ good behaviour ‘pledge’

Competition and Markets Authority cannot investigate leasehold mis-selling because of Brexit, Brokenshire told

Clive Betts leasehold

Communities Select Committee MPs issue devastating report into the toxic leasehold system

Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Full Communities Select Committee news