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Martin Boyd flags controversial civil servant letter to City Hall at fire safety meeting

July 19, 2019 By Admin3 2 Comments

By Harry Scoffin LKP chair Martin Boyd was quizzed on fire safety in residential buildings and the government’s handling of post-Grenfell remediation works at City Hall yesterday. He sat alongside professionals from the London Fire Brigade, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, London Tenants Federation and Barking & Dagenham Council’s BeFirst regeneration corporation. Speaking to […]

Freeholders given makeover as ‘duty-holders’ with an identifiable ‘responsible person’ in post-Grenfell overhaul of building safety regs

June 14, 2019 By Admin3 1 Comment

By Harry Scoffin Last week government issued a call for leaseholders of flats in high-rise buildings to submit their views on how their homes can be better protected from fires and other structural risks. The public consultation closes at 11:45pm on 31 July 2019. This development comes as a response to the Independent Review of […]

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70 attend APPG on leasehold after ground rent scandal grabs media attention

… and Taylor Wimpey backs down on building more leasehold houses More than 70 stakeholders, MPs and peers attended last night’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. The meeting, chaired by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour, Poplar and Limehouse), was called at short notice following the upsurge of anger at Taylor Wimpey. The […]

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Where does one start with Housing minister Heather Wheeler’s evidence to the Communities Select Committee? LKP described Mrs Wheeler’s evidence on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme as “ill-informed”. Of the ten or so MPs in the room, it was apparent that the housing minister knew the least about leasehold. At 13.30 below: You […]

‘No other law so blatantly allows the wealthiest to rip off those less so,’ says the Sunday Times of leasehold

The Sunday Times returned to considering leasehold yesterday and made its most damning assessment yet. The a powerful article by columnist Martina Lees considered the case of Lisa and Ray Chapple, aged 34 and 35, living in a terraced house bought off-plan seven years agon. With £250pa ground rents courtesy of Taylor Wimpey they will […]

Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Labour MP Justin Madders has demanded a ban on the building of leasehold houses where there is no justification for them. Leasehold houses have proliferated as housebuilders exploit the housing crisis to make extra revenues by selling off the freeholds, often to shady investors based overseas who hide behind nominee directors. Worse, some housebuilders – […]

Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?

The low-born woman who made the Duke of Westminster’s fortune Today’s article in the Financial Times prompts this historical footnote. The FT quite rightly highlights the Court of Appeal action of chartered surveyor James Wyatt, of Parthenia Limited, who is challenging the mathematical calculation of values in lease extensions. If he wins the case, and […]

£3m Grenfell cladding bills fall on residents at Lendlease’s Cypress Place and Vallea Court

The property tribunal last week dumped the cost of removing Grenfell cladding on the residents at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester’s Green Quarter, which were built by Australian builder Lendlease. And Vallea Court pays for the “waking watch” fire marshals. In addition, the tribunal declined to issue a section 20c order, which means […]

Taxpayers face £85,000 loss as Homes England accepts leaseholder can pay back loan on flat blighted by Grenfell cladding

Taxpayers face a loss of £85,000 on a Help To Buy loan at New Capital Quay after Homes England accepted that a flat blighted by Grenfell cladding was now worth only £50,000. Cecile Langevin, 32, a mother of two, bought her £475,000 flat with a £95,000 Help To Buy loan, savings and a mortgage in […]