Liam Spender

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

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

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

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

Morello Quarter leaseholders stall ruinous cost of waking watch, but how useful is court decision for others?

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

FirstPort faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

Curiouser and curiouser: the Building Safety Bill has Second Reading in the Commons

Building Safety Bill is a device for which the batteries aren’t included. It could be improved, if only officials would listen …

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Analysis of where next with the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges

Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20 dispute in Court of Appeal

Fire Safety Bill clears Parliament. So, what’s next?

Lords push government’s Fire Safety Bill to the edge as parliamentary session nears end …

Should the buyer beware? Leaseholders and fire safety remediation costs

Government’s use of extra-statutory powers has made the cladding crisis far worse than in Australia (or possibly Scotland), writes LKP trustee

New Capital Quay Litigation continues, with concern that repairs may still not meet Building Regulations

Bottomley leads Tory rebellion of 32 MPs, but government defeats amendment to Fire Safety Bill

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

Why the law won’t help cladding leaseholders

Question Time: Zoom meeting with LKP cladding funding proposal team, Tuesday 5pm February 9 2021