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Robert Jenrick: Why give freeholders such a whopping planning windfall over...
The proposal by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to allow building owners to put another couple of storeys on their blocks without planning permission is a massive windfall for freeholders and...
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ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty...
Nigel Glen, CEO of ARMA, has his doubts about commonhold, but thinks that it would actually work well for professional managing agents … helping clueless directors It does not matter who makes the...
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The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to...
By Harry Scoffin Why is Robert Jenrick rewarding an asset class he called “egregious” just last month, asked The Times on Saturday. The report by consumer affairs correspondent Andrew Ellson considered...
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An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform
LKP chair of trustees Martin Boyd writes to Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to raise concerns over leasehold reform Dear Robert, Just over ten years ago, an old leaseholder died of shame because...
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Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard...
… Speaker slams his junior minister … Who says Jenrick has ‘no relationship’ with Desmond while confirming property deal was raised at party fundraiser … MPs told secretary of state snubbed site visit...
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Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in...
The Law Commission today publishes three reports proposing reforms to the leasehold system and its complete replacement with a revived commonhold tenure, on the statute book since 2002 but ignored by...
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Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP
By Harry Scoffin Justin Madders MP, joint patron of LKP, paid tribute to our former trustee Louie Burns in the Commons last week. “He had a formidable intellect and a passion for justice that always...
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Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to...
Underlying this report is the question: Would you REALLY like to be the ‘responsible person’ if there were a second Grenfell? Freeholders urge government to water down leasehold reforms to allow modest...
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Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with...
Southwark and Hammersmith and Fulham are the worst councils Clarion and A2 Dominion top the housing associations with adverse rulings, while Peabody got the most complaints Clarion Housing jointly...
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Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to...
No engagement with leaseholders throughout the Hackitt review, Communities Select Committee is told By Harry Scoffin Dame Judith Hackitt, the government’s de facto building safety tsar, was criticised...
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Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold...
And retirement ground rents are to be banned as well Government press release below The government is to ban new ground rents – including those in retirement developments – then set about implementing...
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Should I extend my lease now or wait for government reforms?
Richard Murphy, of chartered surveyors Richard John Clarke, has won a succession of tribunal cases on behalf of leaseholders that have saved them tens of thousands of pounds By Richard Murphy The...
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Barrister Justin Bates torpedoes another RTM for Moskovitz / Gurvits:...
Canary Gateway leaseholders have just lost £100,000 on a failed RTM, have aggressive 15-year doubling ground rents and, like every other sizeable new block in the country, has EWS1 issues to address...
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Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20...
Liam Spender is a Trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. Personally affected by the cladding scandal, Liam is a Solicitor-Advocate and Senior Associate at Velitor Law practising commercial...
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Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control
Lord (Stephen) Greenhalgh is the housing minister tasked with seeing through the leasehold reforms, introducing these final consultations with robust criticisms of the leasehold sector (which the...
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As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo...
By Harry Scoffin With the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill now law, LKP publishes its response to the government’s consultation on policies that promise to dramatically improve the position of...
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Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing...
Lord Greenhalgh smiling on June 30 for the liberation of leaseholders in a mass shift to commonhold. Photographs reproduced with special thanks to Anthony Palmer By Harry Scoffin For the first time a...
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Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat...
Donavon Hanney, photographed with his grandchildren above, died 25 days after moving into the Platinum Skies Chapters development in Salisbury in March 2020. Until LKP took up the case, the family had...
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