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Collapsed ceilings and dripping walls at prime Timber Wharf in Manchester

February 6, 2014 By admin

Leaseholders at the fancy Timber Wharf in Manchester are facing a £1 million bill to pay for a new roof, only 12 years after the site was completed. It is claimed that the building has been beset with leaks within two years of being completed and conditions in some of the flats are so bad […]

Filed Under: News, Sir Peter Bottomley Tagged With: Lucy Powell, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tom Bloxham, Urban Splash

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Three MPs worth voting for if you are a leaseholder

Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation / LKP has no political affiliation, and our three MP patrons – Sir Peter Bottomley, Jim Fitzpatrick and Ed Davey – come from the three main political parties. The below explains what they have done for leaseholders: Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative) represents Worthing West, which has a high number of […]

Leasehold and commonhold APPG now has 167 members

Current number of members 167 + 11 friends Listed below are the members of the All Party Parliamentary Group looking into Leasehold and Commonhold reform in the new parliament. The list is updated as new members join and will be updated on this page throughout the parliament. Any member of parliament in the Commons or […]

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Some of our freehold clients are offshore, admits Will Astor’s HomeGround

Homeground, the ground rent gatherer that is part of Will Astor’s Long Harbour group, is gathering revenues for offshore owned freeholders, it admits. In a leaflet circulated to leasehold homeowners who have contacted the company, it says: “Some of our client Landlords are companies registered in England and Wales, with records available at Companies House, […]

LKP meets Competition and Markets Authority over leasehold house mis-selling

The Competition and Markets Authority was given LKP’s insight into the leasehold houses mis-selling scandal yesterday. The meeting was hosted by LKP patrons and APPG co-chairs MPs Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick and Justin Madders, the deputy APPG chair on leasehold reform. Mr Madders, a solicitor, has spoken out many times about the mis-selling […]

Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and asks for names of directors who approved them

Sir Peter Bottomley (right) has demanded that Taylor Wimpey explain its “unfair ground rent” provisions to the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. Yesterday he told fellow MPs at the APPG meeting chaired by Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse: “The ground rent increase may have been legal. It is clearly undesirable. […]

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Grenfell cladding

Leaseholders and freeholder of evacuated Manchester block win £10.8m insurer payout for ‘serious defects’

By Harry Scoffin A freeholder and his leaseholders secured victory at the Court of Appeal last week, with the insurer ordered to pay a £10.8m bill for works to make a Manchester development safe. Although the faults pre-date Grenfell, it is the first court case win for private leaseholders over safety and structural defects since […]

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

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 […]

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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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‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled LEASE annual conference

Leasehold sector insiders were aghast at the address given by Sir Peter Bottomley on Wednesday at the Leasehold Advisory Service “annual conference”. The event was packed with surveyors, valuers, lawyers and property managing agents paying £350 a head to attend what has until now been the most important trade show of the sector. Earlier housing […]

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