CentreForum think tank ponders leasehold
CentreForum invites LKP to contribute to its leasehold report In three weeks time another important report into leasehold is to be published, this time by the liberal think tank CentreForum. Earlier...
View ArticleBaroness Hanham and Rupert Murdoch: spot the difference
One is parroting the non-policy of Grant Shapps, and the other has never met him or, if he has, asked no favours By ‘Barrack-room Lawyer’ (As ARHM president Baroness Greengross defined OAP...
View ArticleMeeting with Bruton Street Management
A full and frank discussion this morning with Andrew Kafkaris, of Bruton Street Management, who provided evidence for Baroness Gardner at last week’s House of Lords debate. Understandably Richard, who...
View ArticleBaroness Gardner calls for leaseholders’ money held by managing agents to be...
Following the conviction of fraudster Simon van Houten, 31, the Rendall and Rittner managing agent who will be jailed for stealing £122,000 next Thursday, Baroness Gardner of Parkes is calling for...
View ArticleWe won’t protect leaseholders’ funds even after Van Houten’s theft because …...
The House of Lords was told today that key clauses in the legislation that would help protect leaseholders’ funds that are controlled by managing agents won’t come into force because this was the...
View Article‘Drive your MPs mad to change leasehold,’ Gardner tells FPRA
Full speeches have been added to the end of this article Around 250 leaseholders met in London tonight to hear Baroness Gardner of Parkes say that reform of the troubled sector is very much on the...
View ArticleBaroness Gardner urges government to back commonhold
Last Monday in the House of Lords, Baroness Gardner of Parkes (left) urged the government to back residential commonhold as a substitute for leasehold. Specifically she asked whether commonhold could...
View ArticleLords amendment sneaks regulation of leasehold managing agents into the...
A sneaky Lords amendment by Baroness Gardner (left) has seen the licensing of leasehold managing agents added to legislation to license the widely-abused letting agency business. And Sir Peter...
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Baroness Gardner raises issue of leasehold tribunal legal costs in Lords …
… and next months seeks to ask whether the government will review the need for ALL leasehold residents to agree to convert tenure to commonhold Baroness Gardner of Parkes, a long-standing leasehold...
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Leasehold Bill from ALEP receives a few home truths in the Lords
How impressed one has to be with the lobbying activities of the lawyers in ALEP: the Association of Leasehold Enfrachisement Practitioners. It waives a piece of paper pointing out that the powers of...
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MPs call for all-party group on leasehold, and to stop right to manage being...
The Westminster meeting on Tuesday March 11 on right to manage organized by Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation saw an all-party group on leasehold...
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‘Five million leaseholders is a lot of votes’, the Lords are told
The House of Lords had another short debate on leasehold issues last Thursday and urged the case for reform to benefit five million leaseholders. The debate was initiated by by LibDem peer Baroness...
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Time to have another look at commonhold, say Lords. But what are Lord Best’s...
The House of Lords put pressure on the government this week to revisit the issue of residential commonhold tenure as an alternative to leasehold. The initiative came from Baroness Gardner of Parkes,...
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LKP holds Westminster meeting on commonhold
“Millions have an interest in leasehold living. Most would gain when commonhold or strata title becomes the norm. “This meeting is an important step forward. “In the near future, abuse and misuse and...
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Packed Westminster meeting for leasehold reform
Seventy key figures in the leasehold sector – including some battle-scarred leaseholders – attended a packed Westminster briefing yesterday to hear how leasehold could be reformed. The meeting was...
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Baroness Gardner raises RTM in the Lords
Written Answers – Department for Communities and Local Government: Right to Manage Companies (9 Dec 2015) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2015-11-25.HL3932.h&s=speaker%3A13304#gHL3932.q0...
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LKP suggestions prompt amendments to Housing Bill
The House of Lords today discussed LKP suggested amendments to the Housing Bill to increase fairness for leaseholders. Proposed by Lord Young of Cookham – better known as the former Conservative MP Sir...
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20 MPs and Lords sign up for All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and...
Just before Easter it was decided to form an All-Party Parliamentary Group on residential leasehold and commonhold. It is proposed that the chairmen will be jointly Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim...
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