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Liam Spender

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

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, News, Property tribunalTag: Energy Bill Relief Scheme, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Judge Vance, Kully Sahdra, Liam Spender, Miriam Seifert, St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Berkeley, Countryside Contracts, FirstPort, FIT Nominee 2 Limited, FIT Nominee Limited, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, NatWest Group plc, RBS, St David's Square

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, PressTag: Cladding scandal, Dame Judith Hackitt, Dean Buckner, Grenfell cladding, Health and Safety Executive, Lakanal House, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Michael Gove, Ronnie King OBE, Sir David Amess, The Sunday Times, Welsh Government

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Boris Johnson, Cath Williams, Charles Roe, Co-propriétaires, Commonhold, Dr Jonathan Evans, Harry Scoffin, Justin Madders MP, Katherine O'Riordan, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Truscott, Lord Young of Cookham, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Martina Lees, Meg Hillier MP, Michael Gove, Professor Nick Hopkins, UK Finance

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Bob Blackman MP, Cath Williams, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Daisy Cooper MP, End Our Cladding Scandal, Flo Eshalomi MP, Harry Scoffin, Hilary Benn MP, Iain Duncan Smith, Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Liam Spender, Marsha de Cordova MP, Matthew Pennycook, National Leasehold Campaign, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Rushanara Ali MP, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Mike Penning, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP, Stuart Andrew, Ted Baillieu, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Platinum Skies

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

Category: Latest News, News, Retirement, Shared ownershipTag: Andrew Ellson, ARCO, Bruce Moore, Conor Burns MP, Housing 21, John Beesley, Liam Spender, Lord Fink, Michael Voges, Platinum Skies, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Times

Building Safety Bill

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Dame Judith Hackitt, Liam Spender, Michael Gove

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Baroness Kath Pinnock, Building Safety Bill, Building safety managers, Building safety reform, Dame Judith Hackitt, Harry Scoffin, Liam Spender, Lord Best, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Thurlow, Martin Boyd, Rabina Khan, Ritu Saha, Sir Ken Knight, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Morello Quarter

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Liam Spender, Morello Quarter, Waking watch

Building Safety Bill

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Michael Gove, Permitted development, Rooftop development

St David's Square

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

Category: FirstPort, JB Leitch, Latest News, News, Press, Property tribunalTag: Aaron Walder, FirstPort, JB Leitch, Liam Spender, MailOnline, Myra Butterworth, St David's Square

BBC2 Newsnight

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC2 Newsnight, Liam Spender, Martin Boyd, Mick Platt, Sir Peter Bottomley

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

Category: FirstPort, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

St David's Square

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building safety fund, David Young, DriveTopCo, Equistone, FirstPort, Liam Spender, Neil O'Connor, Nigel Howell, Ouda Saleh, Paul Lester, St David's Square

Building Safety Bill

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Robert Jenrick

Building Safety Bill

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

Category: Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Bill, Liam Spender

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Harry Scoffin, John Biggs, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Martin Boyd, Natalie Carter, New Providence Wharf, Rabina Khan, Rushanara Ali MP, Sebastian O’Kelly, Thames Water, Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets Justice for Leaseholders, UKCAG, Unmesh Desai

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

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

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Ground rents, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Liam Spender

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

Category: Commonhold, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Liam Spender

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

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Aster v Chapman, Law Commission, Liam Spender

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Kath Pinnock, Barry Gardiner MP, Bob Blackman MP, Christopher Pincher MP, Daisy Cooper MP, EWS1, Fire Safety Bill, Hilary Benn MP, Liam Spender, Lord Adonis, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Newby, Lord Roy Kennedy, Ruth Cadbury MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen Doughty MP, Tim Farron MP

Lord Greenhalgh

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Bishop of St Albans, Liam Spender, Lord Adonis, Lord Greenhalgh

Should the buyer beware? Leaseholders and fire safety remediation costs

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Liam Spender

Liam Spender

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Advice Notice 14, Cladding scandal, Liam Spender, Oxford University

New Capital Quay

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Galliard, Liam Spender, New Capital Quay, NHBC

Chris Pincher

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Christopher Pincher MP, Fire Safety Bill, Liam Spender, Royston Smith MP

Liam Spender

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

Category: Communities Select Committee, Insurance, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Clive Betts MP, Liam Spender, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Why the law won’t help cladding leaseholders

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Liam Spender

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Dean Buckner, Liam Spender, Lucy Brown-Cortes, Martin Boyd

Hayley Tillotson

Feeble government ministers bankrupted Hayley Tillotson, and will do the same to thousands more …

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Liam Spender, Michael Wade

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