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Synergy housing association fined £1m over five-year-old’s death in lift

January 15, 2019 By admin

Synergy Housing Limited fined £1m plus £40,000 in legal costs for health and safety failings that led to the death of a five year old girl in a lift accident. Synergy Housing Limited, a subsidiary of Aster Group, which owns more than 30,000 homes, was pleaded guilty along with lift company Orona Limited at Bournemouth […]

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

Labour MP for Ellesmere Port & Neston, Justin Madders has delayed the second reading of the Leasehold Reform Bill until October 26 2018. The Bill seeks to introduce a statutory formula for enfranchisement and lease extension similar to schemes in Northern Ireland and Scotland. It will end the incessant game-playing and revenues from the lease […]

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

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership warmly endorses the Communities Select Committee report published today. We have campaigned since January 2012 to see a parliamentary report turn such a clear-eye to this murky and exploitative corner of the housing market. The report is a huge vindication of our efforts. The report amounts to a demolition of the […]

Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies

Yet another example of cronyism at work as 130 Persimmon staff share out a £300 million bonus thanks to spreading leasehold houses around the country. The company’s hilariously mis-named “long-term incentive plan” – short-term fill-yer-boots, would be more accurate – has already seen CEO Jeffrey Fairburn being awarded a £112 million bonus. The company’s regional […]

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

ITV News has again reported the leasehold house scandal, which particularly affects the North West. The item, broadcast on March 7, precedes increasing militancy from caught-out leasehold homeowners, some of whom cannot now sell their houses because of onerous ground rents. On March 18 a demonstration is planned by the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group […]

Buyer pulls out of Persimmon £219,995 leasehold house purchase

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms A house buyer in Coventry has pulled out of buying a “virtual freehold” Persimmon new build because it is being sold on leasehold tenure. The four-bedroom Persimmon property was priced at £219,995, and has […]

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

Sir Peter Bottomley urged government to hold a public meeting and call in Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor and the offshore owners of residential freeholders to resolve the Grenfell cladding issue. He told Communities Secretary Said Javid: “This week saw the first proper tribunal decision, regarding Citiscape in Croydon, which is owned by the Tchenguiz […]

Grenfell cladding leaseholders form campaign group

A campaign group of leaseholders in private blocks with Grenfell cladding is being formed. It is calling itself the UK Cladding Action Group: UKCAG and can be contacted here: ukcladdingactiongroup@gmail.com LKP welcomes the initiative and will do all that it can to assist. The Guardian reports: “Only 10 of the 173 private buildings discovered with […]

Synergy housing association fined £1m over five-year-old’s death in lift

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