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Lord Greenhalgh

At last a housing minister who seems to want to reform leasehold, and knows legal costs are being gamed to keep freeholders on top

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Lord Greenhalgh, Lucy Frazer MP, Michael Gove, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

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

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Catalyst, City Wharf Hoxton, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Initial repair period, Kwajo Tweneboa, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Shared ownership, Short leases, sub-letting, subletting

As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo calls to action in its submission to government consultation on the next reforms …

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord Young of Cookham, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, West India Quay

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

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

Category: Charter Quay, Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Charter Quay, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Martin Boyd, Mixed-use sites, Shared ownership, Sir Ed Davey, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, NewsTag: Ground rents, Lord Greenhalgh

Lord Blencathra

House of Lords turns into the House of Serfs to attack the iniquity of leasehold ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Baroness Grender, Baroness Wheatcroft, Barratt, Ground rents, Lord Best, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Hammond, Lord Young of Cookham

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

Chris Pincher

Fire Safety Bill ricochets around Parliament as 31 Conservative MPs again vote against the government

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Christopher Pincher MP, Liam Fox MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Bob Neill MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Lord Greenhalgh

Lords rebellion sees government Fire Safety Bill thrown into disarray

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

Chris Pincher

Minister hears how cladding ‘interim measures’ are ruining a generation of homebuyers

Category: Insurance, Justin Madders MP, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Chris Pincher, Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Florence Eshalomi MP, Hilary Benn MP, Ian Byrne MP, Justin Madders MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Stephen McPartland 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

Florence Eshalomi

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Bob Blackman MP, Clive Betts MP, Florence Eshalomi MP, Lord Greenhalgh, Richard Goodman DG building safety

Lord Greenhalgh

Bankruptcies for leaseholders and billions entrusted to freeholders and their managers, APPG told

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Andrew Bulmer, APPG, ARMA, Bob Blackman MP, Hilary Benn MP, IRPM, Lord Greenhalgh, Martin Boyd, Roy Wilsher, Sir David Amess, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP

Lord Greenhalgh cladding scandal

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Christopher Pincher MP, Clive Betts MP, Kit Malthouse MP, Lord Greenhalgh

Hilary Benn leasehold

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Category: APPG, Latest News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Daisy Cooper MP, Hilary Benn MP, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Michael Mansfield QC, Permitted development, Rooftop development, Ruth Cadbury MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Bob Neill MP

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Adriatic Land, ARMA, Building Safety Bill, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Charter Quay, Commonhold, Dame Judith Hackitt, Harry Scoffin, Homeground Management Limited, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Martin Boyd, New Festival Quarter, Nigel Glen, Recognised Residents' Association, Richard Silva

Lord Greenhalgh

Lord Greenhalgh becomes the housing minister responsible for leasehold

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, MHCLG, NewsTag: Lord Greenhalgh, MHCLG

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Category: Advice Case Study Disasters, Latest News, News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Baroness Andrews, Baroness Wilcox, Harry Scoffin, Lord Bourne, Lord German, Lord Greaves, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Thurlow, Permitted development, Rooftop development, Sir Ed Davey, Sir Keir Starmer, Sir Peter Bottomley

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Category: Latest News, News, Parliament, Rooftop developmentTag: Baroness Andrews, Caroline Lucas, Harry Scoffin, John McDonnell, Lord Bourne, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Thurlow, MHCLG, Mike Amesbury MP, Permitted development, Rooftop development, Sir Keir Starmer, Sir Peter Bottomley

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

Category: Cladding scandal, Housing associations, Latest News, NewsTag: BBC R4 You and Yours, Bellway, Bellway Homes, Building safety fund, Catalyst, Cladding scandal, Clarion, Defective Premises Act 1972, EWS1, G15, Harry Scoffin, Housing associations, Hyde Housing, L&Q, Lord Greenhalgh, Melanie Abbott, Network Homes, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Peabody, So-Stepney, Southern Housing Group, subletting, Tower Hamlets, UK Finance

Brindley House cladding leaseholders face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours

Category: Cladding scandal, Insurance, Latest News, News, PressTag: ARMA, BBC R4 You and Yours, Birmingham Leasehold Action Group, Brindley House, Cladding insurance, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Flood Re, Harry Scoffin, Insurance, Islington Gates, Lord Greenhalgh, Melanie Abbott, Nigel Glen, Poll Re, Shabana Mahmood MP, UK Cladding Action Group, UKCAG

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Covid-19, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, James Brokenshire MP, Leasehold houses, Lord Greenhalgh, Sajid Javid, Sir Peter Bottomley

Lord Greenhalgh

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

Category: Cladding scandal, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Bob Blackman MP, Building safety reform, Cladding scandal, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Covid-19, Dame Judith Hackitt, Lord Greenhalgh, Manchester Cladiators, Paul Holmes MP, Ritu Saha, Waking watch contracts

Government may help over waking watch bills

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Cladding scandal, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, Huffington Post, Inside Housing, Lord Greenhalgh, Mike Amesbury MP, Northpoint, Paddington Walk, Robert Jenrick, Waking watch contracts

Robert Jenrick cladding

Jenrick: ‘We owe it to Grenfell community to get building safety right’

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Advice Notice 14, Cladding scandal, Covid-19, Dame Judith Hackitt, EWS1, Lord Greenhalgh, Robert Jenrick

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