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Synergy housing association fined £1m over five-year-old’s death in lift

January 15, 2019 By admin

Synergy Housing Limited fined £1m plus £40,000 in legal costs for health and safety failings that led to the death of a five year old girl in a lift accident. Synergy Housing Limited, a subsidiary of Aster Group, which owns more than 30,000 homes, was pleaded guilty along with lift company Orona Limited at Bournemouth […]

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Mike Amesbury MP gets Boris Johnson to commit to zero ground rents, except … 

… where there are ‘exceptional circumstances’ (that would be retirement properties, so far, unless lobbyists squirrel in something else …) Labour’s Mike Amesbury used prime minister’s questions today to press Boris Johnson to bring an end to the leasehold scandal. The MP for Weaver Vale in Cheshire highlighted that despite endless consultations and promises of […]

LKP meeting with housing minister Gavin Barwell

On Tuesday LKP met the new post-Brexit housing minister Gavin Barwell, a Conservative MP representing an urban constituency at last. A former special adviser, Mr Barwell has some experience of leasehold and LKP has reported that his Croydon constituency has had two lease forfeiture cases every year since 2010. The meeting, which included DCLG civil […]

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Local media takes up the leasehold housing scandal

Local newspapers and websites have joined the media furore over the leasehold house scandal. The latest is the Bury Times with an excellent article in the Bury Times. It is highly welcomed that local media in the North West are ringing the alarm bells over leasehold. The region has a disproportionate amount of leasehold housing […]

Ban revenue-generating leasehold houses, says Justin Madders MP. Redrow responds

Labour MP Justin Madders has demanded a ban on the building of leasehold houses where there is no justification for them. Leasehold houses have proliferated as housebuilders exploit the housing crisis to make extra revenues by selling off the freeholds, often to shady investors based overseas who hide behind nominee directors. Worse, some housebuilders – […]

‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

With references to large houses in Oxfordshire, and a 19,000 acre shooting estate in Scotland, the Daily Mail published a characteristically no-shades-of-grey profile of ground rent investor Will Astor today. That’s leaving aside his half-sister being Samantha Cameron. “Complaints about leaseholds have been simmering for several years but are now threatening to boil over and embarrass […]

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Croydon leaseholders at Citiscape face £750,000 bill to remove Grenfell Tower cladding

At least 20 private blocks affected Bills for fire marshals at one site have reached £16,000 a week Leaseholders in the Citiscape block of flats in Croydon face a £750,000 – £1 million bill to remove the same insulation cladding involved in the Grenfell Tower fire. Two fire marshals are employed 24/7 at £5,000 a […]

Why AN14 is making your cladding flat impossible to sell

By Martin Boyd A growing number of leaseholders are discovering that selling their flat has become more difficult. Prospective buyers need to obtain a valuation for their lenders. Now, on thousands of homes, this may mean they need something called an ‘Advice Note 14’ (AN14) report and it many cases these reports do not exist! […]

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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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Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless

  An affluent couple living in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter are funding their lives through leasehold property cleverness that is costing poorer property buyers thousands of pounds. Martin Paine and his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond are benefiting from the sale of flats at Blythe Court in Coleshill, Birmingham, which have a trap […]

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