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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

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

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

APPG members list – current membership 183

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021

Sir David Amess, RIP. 1952-2021
Building Safety Bill

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

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

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

APPG leasehold chairs call on Lords to support McPartland-Smith amendment tomorrow
fire safety in flats

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

Freeholders must pay for cladding – or lose freeholds, say LKP patron MPs
APPG on leasehold reform

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

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

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

APPG gains more new members

Full APPG news

Latest in Parliament

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

March 15, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Abbey Developments, Avant, Ballymore, Dandara, Emerson Group (Jones Homes), Galliard, Inland Homes, Lendlease, London Square, Michael Gove, Rydon Homes, Telford Homes

Lee Rowley

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

March 1, 2023

Category: Fleecehold, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: ABC Estates, Andy Carter MP, Apsana Begum MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, FirstPort, Fleecehold, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hallmark Premier Estates, Justin Madders MP, Lee Rowley MP, Matthew Pennycook, Matthew Pennycook MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Munira Wilson MP, Nigel Wilkins, Sir Peter Bottomley, Steinbeck Grange, Stephen McPartland MP

Barry Gardner

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

February 27, 2023

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Justin Madders MP

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

December 15, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lord Greenhalgh, Lucy Frazer MP, Michael Gove, Sir Peter Bottomley

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)

December 15, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Shared ownershipTag: Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing, Sue Phillips

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

August 12, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Boris Johnson, Cath Williams, Charles Roe, Co-propriétaires, Commonhold, Dr Jonathan Evans, Harry Scoffin, Justin Madders MP, Katherine O'Riordan, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Truscott, Lord Young of Cookham, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Martina Lees, Meg Hillier MP, Michael Gove, Professor Nick Hopkins, UK Finance

Greg Clark MP

No ‘backsliding’ on Gove’s £3bn building safety levy, says his successor Greg Clark

July 14, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Greg Clark MP, Home Builders Federation

Labour’s Lisa Nandy taunts Tories over ‘feudal’ leaseholds. Meanwhile, PM channels Thatcher to revive enfranchisement plans

June 17, 2022

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: 25% rule, Benefits to bricks, Boris Johnson, CapX, Centrepoint, Commonhold, Crosby Textor, David Canzini, Eddie Hughes MP, Grenfell, Harry Scoffin, Leasehold enfranchisement, Lisa Nandy, London Playbook, Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Pennycook MP, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, Neil Gerrard, Right to Buy, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tulip Siddiq MP

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

April 22, 2022

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Bob Blackman MP, Cath Williams, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Daisy Cooper MP, End Our Cladding Scandal, Flo Eshalomi MP, Harry Scoffin, Hilary Benn MP, Iain Duncan Smith, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Liam Spender, Marsha de Cordova MP, Matthew Pennycook, National Leasehold Campaign, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Rushanara Ali MP, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Mike Penning, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP, Stuart Andrew, Ted Baillieu, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

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

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, Harry Scoffin, MPs' APPG on leasehold, Sir Lynton Crosby

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

May 9, 2019

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Grenfell cladding, James Brokenshire MP

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

December 12, 2018

Category: APPG, Latest News, LEASE, NewsTag: Anthony Essien, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, MHCLG

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

July 20, 2018

Category: APPG, Cladding scandal, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: APPG, BBC R4 You and Yours, Dan Labbad, Grenfell cladding, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Lendlease, Martin Boyd, Melanie Abbott, Professor Susan Bright, The Guardian

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

July 13, 2018

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: ARCO, Churchill Retirement Living, Clive Fenton, McCarthy and Stone, Michael Voges, Retirement

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

July 13, 2018

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, News, Parliament, RetirementTag: ARCO, Association of Retirement Community Operators, Ground rents, Michael Voges

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

July 13, 2018

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, ParliamentTag: Clive Fenton, Ground rents, 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

July 13, 2018

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, ParliamentTag: AgeUK, APPG, ARCO, Ground rents, Joe Oldman, McCarthy and Stone

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

July 13, 2018

Category: APPG, APPG July 11 2018, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Louie Burns, National Leasehold Campaign, News, Parliament

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

March 6, 2018

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon, Pete Redfern, Sajid Javid, Taylor Wimpey, Theresa May, Tom Watson MP

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

February 4, 2018

Category: APPG, Latest News, News, Park HomesTag: British Holiday and Home Parks Association, Christopher Chope MP, Tony Turner

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, Harry Scoffin, 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, Harry Scoffin, 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, Harry Scoffin, 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, Harry Scoffin, 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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