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Leasehold Advisory Service: ‘Lawyers here won’t even speak to me, because I cannot afford their fees’

May 19, 2012 By admin

In the last ten minutes the Leasehold Advisory Service annual conference burst into life this afternoon when a furious delegate grabbed the microphone and said the quango was failing to represent the interests of ordinary leaseholders. “I see around me here landlords and managing agents and lots of lawyers who won’t even speak to me […]

Filed Under: Home Middle Right, LEASE, News Tagged With: Anthony Essien, Bob Smytherman, CentreForum, Falcon Chambers, Gary Murphy, James Driscoll, Julian Shersby, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Michelle Banks, Notting Hill Housing, Sebastian O’Kelly, Tanfield Chambers

LKP comment on LEASE annual conference 2012: a trade show for ‘leasehold professionals’ courtesy of taxpayers

May 18, 2012 By admin

EDITORIAL Anyone who thought that last week’s annual conference of Leasehold Advisory Service, a quango paid for out of taxpayers’ money, would be a gathering of ordinary leaseholders, swapping ideas and experiences of managing their apartment blocks, would have been sadly deluded. It was, in fact, a very expensive trade show filled with representatives from […]

Filed Under: LEASE, News Tagged With: Anthony Radesky, Bob Smytherman, CentreForum, Falcon Chambers, James Driscoll, Julian Shersby, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, London Assembly, Millennium Hotel, Notting Hill Housing, Phillip Rainey QC, Tanfield Chambers

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Housing Minister Mark Prisk holds meeting with LKP – but keep pestering MPs!

After years of banging on a closed door, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation held a meeting with Housing Minister Mark Prisk (right) yesterday. But leasehold activists are urged to keep pressing MPs (and copy us in to your correspondence!) As a result of the meeting, the minister is reviewing the following: How […]

Come on, Shelter! Don’t demand more housing without addressing leasehold’s many, many defects …

For some years, LKP has been pleading with the homeless and housing charity Shelter to do more to support the problems faced by leaseholders. For example, the arbitrary loss of home and destitution faced by lease forfeiture should surely be a concern? Forfeiture means total loss of the asset, offering a cash windfall to landlords, […]

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Leaseholders demand end to Redrow selling leasehold houses

” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The weather was on the housebuilders’ side, but 40 demonstrators protested outside Redrow’s Ledsham Garden Village site on Saturday demanding an end to leasehold houses. They were joined by local MP Justin Madders, ITV News, BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours consumer programme, some damp children, a number of unhappy […]

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 […]

STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons

In the House of Commons today one of the latest members of the leasehold reform APPG spoke passionately about the scandal of leasehold houses. MP for South West Bedfordshire, Andrew Selous, raised the unacceptable practice of large developers buying freehold land on which they then sell houses on a leasehold basis.  This is currently taking […]

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Grenfell cladding

Furious attack on government Grenfell cladding inaction in Commons

The government was under attack in the Commons today over its inactivity over Grenfell cladding in private blocks of flats. John Healey, Labour shadow housing secretary, made a powerful attack on Housing minister Kit Malthouse, asking “if the government cannot deal with this, what is it in office for?” Mr Malthouse said, “as a result […]

New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

The misery of the leaseholders at New Capital Quay featured on the BBCR4 You and Yours programme after the APPG on April 6. It emerges that Galliard estimates the cost removing the cladding at the 1,00 flat site at £7-10 million (plus the fire marshals). The warranty provider the NHBC, which employed celebrity libel lawyers […]

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When leaseholders unite …

Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part III

In this section, we look at the results of an experimental test of the RTA SI to see how it might work in practice. We then go on to draw conclusions from all three papers. A test of the RTA SI We have been able to use the leaseholders at the Charter Quay (CQ) site […]

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Disgraceful …

Stop auction of ‘worthless’ flat at Blythe Court and alert authorities, Commons asked

Sir Peter Bottomley has urged the Commons to intervene in the auction sale of Flat 1 Blythe Court, where the freeholders and managers are Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond. Flat 1 Blythe Court is up for auction with Barnard Marcus on February 2 in central London with a guide price of £65,000. Sir […]

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