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Cladding victims unimpressed by Robert Jenrick on BBC1’s Question Time

November 22, 2019 By Admin3 2 Comments

By Harry Scoffin A row has broken out over building safety inaction following an appearance by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick on BBC Question Time last night. The fourth and final question of the current affairs programme, broadcast from Bolton, centred on whether the government “has done enough to tackle unsafe cladding”. Audience member Alex Gill […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News Tagged With: BBC Question Time, Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Grenfell cladding, Inside Housing, Manchester Cladiators, Robert Jenrick, UK Cladding Action Group

Jenrick questioned over cladding help inconsistencies by BOTH Conservative and Labour MPs

October 30, 2019 By Admin3 Leave a Comment

By Harry Scoffin While leaseholders with Grenfell ACM (aluminium composite material) are in line for a £200 million handout from taxpayers, those with other forms of combustible cladding – now estimated at 500,000 flats, “come together and raise sufficient funds”, the Communities Select Committee was told on Monday. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick claimed that “banks […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Dame Judith Hackitt, Grenfell cladding, Helen Hayes MP, Kevin Hollinrake MP, Robert Jenrick

Queen’s speech silent on meaningful leasehold and commonhold reform

October 14, 2019 By Admin3

By Harry Scoffin Today’s Queen speech commits the government to legislate to go over the heads of landlords to help flat lessees gain … super-fast broadband. The Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill – an initiative from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport – has been described as necessary to “accelerate the delivery of fast, […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: Dame Judith Hackitt, Grenfell cladding

Reviewer of building regulations admits post-Grenfell safety regime open to abuse by rogue freeholders

July 26, 2019 By Admin3

By Harry Scoffin The former health and safety commissioner tasked to investigate building standards following the Grenfell Tower fire has criticised government for allowing it “to take so long” to agree her blueprint for maintaining the integrity of high-rise residential blocks. In comments to the Communities Select Committee on Monday, Dame Judith Hackitt also raised […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Clive Betts MP, Dame Judith Hackitt, Fire safety, Grenfell cladding, Martin Boyd

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

July 19, 2019 By Admin3

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 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: Dame Judith Hackitt, Fire safety, Grenfell, Grenfell cladding, London Assembly, Martin Boyd, recognised residents association, UK Cladding Action Group

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

June 14, 2019 By Admin3

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 […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News Tagged With: Dame Judith Hackitt, Fire safety, Grenfell

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Lords debate leasehold reform

Both the Tchenguiz family and Peverel were named in a House of Lords debate yesterday on leasehold service charges. They were singled out by Baroness Gardner of Parkes (Conservative) – the only freeholders and managing agents named in the debate – when referring to landmark LVT settlements, including the £1 million pay-back to residents at […]

Bottomley thanks Number 10 for leasehold reform … while colleague brands Persimmon ‘crooks, cowboys and con artists’ at prime minister’s questions

By Harry Scoffin APPG co-chair Sir Peter Bottomley lavished praise on Theresa May and her chief of staff Gavin Barwell at prime minister’s questions today. Mr Barwell, a former housing minister, was set to present an award to LKP heads Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd at a reception in Parliament on Monday but was unable […]

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Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist

Another page on leasehold in the Financial Times last Saturday, and it is not good reading for the developers, freehold investors and leasehold sector hangers-on. It can be read here  Merryn Somerset Webb, the newspapers investment columnist, looks at this form of tenure and blows loud raspberry. It is the kind of article that the […]

I had to spend £14,000 to change double ground rent to RPI at Ausden Place. But will I get compo from Taylor Wimpey?

The owner of a Taylor Wimpey flat at Ausden Place in Watford paid the freeholder £14,000 to change her doubling ground rent terms to RPI. The property owner, who prefers to remain unnamed, had to sell her flat because of family circumstances. She could not wait to discover the outcome of Taylor Wimpey’s ground rent […]

Retirement sector thought it would prompt leasehold reform, but leasehold houses and double ground rents were even worse …

Report of the annual conference of the Association of Retirement Housing Managers in Stratford, on October 2, is on www.BetterRetirementHousing.com ARHM: This time the impetus to reform leasehold is serious … – Better Retirement Housing If there is one thing that those seeking reform of the retirement housing sector and those employed in it can […]

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Grenfell cladding

Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal

Communities Secretary James Brokenshire told the Commons yesterday that freeholders had paid up to remove Grenfell cladding from private blocks. He was replying to a parliamentary question from Hilary Benn concerning astronomic Grenfell cladding costs at Saxton and Skyline Apartments in his Leeds constituency. Mr Brokenshire should understand that the developers who have paid up […]

MHCLG ‘fundamentally flawed’ in expecting freeholders to pay for Grenfell cladding removal, LKP tells the FT

The FT today reports that government hopes that speculators in residential freeholds – especially anonymous ones hidden offshore – are unlikely to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. The article coincided with reports of Places for People, freeholder of Leeds Saxton, issuing a non-repayable loan to leaseholders and pursuing a claim against warranty provider NHBC. […]

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When leaseholders unite …

MPs back Leasehold Knowledge Partnership call to reform residents’ associations – drawn up by the man who won back £500,000 off Tchenguiz / Peverel

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership has proposed changing the government regulations on the creation of residents’ associations, and has received widespread backing for the reform. The key changes that have been presented to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles are: That residents associations can be recognised with 50 per cent of qualifying residents plus one supporting the move, […]

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Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

These issues were raised by Sir Peter Bottomley in the Queen’s Speech debate yesterday Let me turn to other issues that come up for Back Benchers. I pick up causes, one of which came about as a result of an incident in my constituency regarding leasehold, when some elderly, frail and poor people found themselves […]

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