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APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

December 8, 2017 By admin

We are all waiting for Sajid Javid The All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform met on December 6 at Westminster. Overshadowing all was the conclusion of Communities Secretary Sajid Javid’s report on “Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market”: the review that he announced in the summer, that concluded in September, into […]

The All Party Parliamentary Group for leasehold and commonhold reform ceases with the dissolution of Parliament. But we will be back after the election …

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All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold established today

This morning saw the formation of the new All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold under the joint chairmanship of LKP patron MPs Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick. LKP is to provide the secretariat for the APPG. This means that for the first time a rigorous consumer organisation is in a position to […]

Philip Rainey QC: Are we creating homes or an investment asset class?

One of the leading barristers in landlord and tenant law questioned the purpose of ground rents and urged legislators to be bold in the wholescale reform of leasehold law. Philip Rainey QC, addressing the All Party Parliamentary Group meeting on December 14, quoted his historically minded colleague Philip Wood, whose book “The fall of the […]

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Taylor Wimpey to pay £130 million to solve doubling ground rent scandal

Taylor Wimpey has announced that it is putting aside £130 million to resolve the doubling ground rent scandal. The announcement was made this morning on the eve of Taylor Wimpey’s annual general meeting in London today. Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick MPs were contacted by Taylor Wimpey CEO last night. They have been invited […]

Bellway offers young mother freehold for £3,750. But Adriatic Land demands £12,750 … then agrees to half the sum

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms The first-time buyer of a Bellway leasehold house is furious that the housebuilder has sold off the freehold to her property to ground rent investment company Adriatic Land adding thousands to its cost. Heather […]

APPG July 11: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees

By Sebastian OKelly, LKP trustee The controversial issues of ground rents and exit fees in retirement housing were discussed at this week’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform. These were the main event in a meeting which also had an insider’s examination of leasehold insurance commissions, and why developers […]

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Brokenshire’s dad fixed cladding in Greenwich, Bottomley reminds Commons

High-rise Buildings: Cladding Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Daily Debates from Hansard are published on this website the next working day. A little insight to the new Communities Secretary James Brokenshire on Monday: His father provided cladding to […]

Slough Council v Benji the Binman over Grenfell cladding costs at Nova House

Slough Council – which made the unaccountable decision to buy the freehold of Grenfell cladding site Nova House for £1 – was in tribunal earlier last week against a formidable opponent, Benjamin Pell, better know to journalists as Benji the Binman. Mr Pell, who came to national attention after raiding the dustbins of London’s leading […]

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Tower Hamlets Homes spends thousands to thwart recognised tenants’ association

Tower Hamlets Homes is spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on lawyers to thwart private leaseholders from forming a recognised tenants’ association. This is the sort of manoeuvre adopted by some of London’s most secretive and well resourced landlords, not the housing branch of a local authority. The only serious power a recognised tenants’ […]

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Martin Paine demanded ground rents of thousands from two London leaseholders

[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”11520″ popup=”1″ delay=”7″ exit_popup=”1″ popup_opacity=”0.3″]It is not just Blythe Court … two London leasehold owners also faced demands of thousands of pounds in unexpected ground rents after purchasing flats in different parts of the capital. The leaseholders came forward following the publication last month by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership of the issues at […]

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