Robert Jenrick

Few disagreements over banning ground rents, but last minute effort to keep them for retirement properties by Theresa Villiers and Sir Desmond Swayne

CMA forces Countryside Properties plc to strike out doubling ground rents: it was selling them as late as May 2017!

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

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

CMA kicks housebuilders: Countryside Properties and Taylor Wimpey ‘unfair contract terms’ over rip-off ground rents; Persimmon and Barratt ‘possible mis-selling’ of homes

LKP response to Robert Jenrick £3.5bn ‘exceptional intervention’ to cladding high-rises today

Tory councillors and Labour MP back leaseholders in blocking ERE freeholds shoving up two more storeys under Jenrick’s planning give-away

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Pensioners in former pit village fight ground rents rising from £10 a year to £1,100pa (after a demand for £2,450pa was rejected)

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

Has Jenrick just handed £1bn each to Astor, Tchenguiz and Wallace Estates with two-storey planning gift?

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

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Government may help over waking watch bills

Cladding remediation to restart despite pandemic

Please sort out ‘waking watch’ yourselves owing to coronavirus, says freeholder of Circle 109, Liverpool

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

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

Coronavirus lockdown should not stop work on cladding, government told

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

Appeal to Robert Jenrick: Islington Gates faces evacuation if cladding bills not paid on April 1

Robert Jenrick: Why give freeholders such a whopping planning windfall over two new storeys rule, like this site in Newark?

Cladding leaseholders rejoice after Robert Jenrick secures £1bn in Budget … on top of £400m already pledged

‘Peppercorn’ ground rents on Help To Buy properties … from next year

Jenrick breaks cover … to visit Galliard’s New Capital Quay cladding site that was bound to be sorted out

Is government really back-tracking on leasehold reform evidenced in Queen’s speech? LKP’s verdict is open …

Cladding victims unimpressed by Robert Jenrick on BBC1’s Question Time

Don’t forget about 10 million voters, Bottomley tells the government … which omitted leasehold reform from the Queen’s speech