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And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

LKP trustees tell MHCLG that Martin Boyd can return to LKP any time

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

Lord Greenhalgh becomes the housing minister responsible for leasehold

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

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

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

MHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’

Insiders carve up code of practice for property managers – having been silent on systemic abuses for years!

Barking Riverside fire survivors round on secretive freeholder Adriatic Land, reports BBC R4

United Nations criticises UK government’s approach to the cladding crisis

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

The show must go on with Grenfell ACM cladding removal, says government … as the fire test it didn’t want YOU to see reveals HPL panels were lethal all along

Is this the best news for leasehold serfs since 1066? Quite possibly …

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

Leasehold Advisory Service has ‘been under review’ for 10 years. Here are the findings …