LKP at Number 10
LKP were invited to 10 Downing Street for a meeting yesterday to discuss the leasehold sector and the need for reform. Every area of the sector was discussed – including, at length, retirement housing...
View ArticleBBC told Charity Commission should stop dawdling over recognition of LKP
In a wide ranging BBC 5 Live Investigates programme on leasehold scandals – which can be heard here – Sir Peter Bottomley said the Charity Commission should recognise LKP’s application without further...
View ArticleHousing Bill omits necessary ‘changes to leasehold and commonhold’
… and forfeiture needs changing, too Housing minister Brandon Lewis is facing trouble over his Housing Bill with Sir Peter Bottomley today telling the commons: “The Bill totally misses out the...
View ArticleBarnard Marcus withdraws Blythe Court flat from auction
Barnard Marcus Auctioneers, part of the Sequence Auctions group, has suspended the sale of 1 Blythe Court. It has a ground rent of £8,000 a year, and the deed of variation outlining this condition does...
View ArticleLKP poised to mine information on leasehold, after being admitted to Open...
LKP is delighted to announce that it has been accepted onto the Open Data Institute’s start-up accelerator scheme. This is a very prestigious accolade. Of the 83 applications for the scheme, four were...
View ArticleTaylor Wimpey CEO to meet MPs over ‘cancer’ of doubling ground rents (which...
Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Next week Taylor Wimpey CEO Pete Redfern is to meet Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim...
View ArticleCommons to debate leasehold reform next Tuesday. And Bottomley intends to...
LKP’s patron MPs Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley have secured a three-hour Commons debate next Tuesday (December 20) to discuss reforming leasehold tenure. It is the first full-on debate over...
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Bottomley tells Taylor Wimpey to explain ‘sharp practice’ ground rents – and...
Sir Peter Bottomley (right) has demanded that Taylor Wimpey explain its “unfair ground rent” provisions to the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. Yesterday he told fellow MPs at the...
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70 attend APPG on leasehold after ground rent scandal grabs media attention
… and Taylor Wimpey backs down on building more leasehold houses More than 70 stakeholders, MPs and peers attended last night’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. The...
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Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016
The Commons debate on leasehold reform took place after the intervention of LKP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley. The debate can be seen here:...
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Peter Bottomley MP calls for a debate on leasehold reform
Today in the House of Commons Sir Peter Bottomley MP called for a debate on leasehold issues. He mentions the need to reform the leasehold advisory service and the need examine the cost of lease...
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MPs tell government consultation: End leasehold houses. Scrap new ground...
Self-regulation and codes of conduct have failed. Bring in commonhold and end the leasehold rip-offs. APPG pays “public tribute” to the work of LKP in revealing these abuses “LKP have helped hundreds...
View ArticleA second backbench debate on leasehold issues
An application for a backbench debate on leasehold issues is due to be heard on Tuesday 21st November 2017...
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Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground...
Both Long Harbour and debt collectors JB Leitch hit reverse gear after a forfeiture threat to an £800,000 flat over a late £400 ground rent bill was raised publicly by the Leasehold Knowledge...
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After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for...
Sir Peter Bottomley, a stalwart of leaseholders, looked distinctly unimpressed with the minister’s responses last week By Harry Scoffin The longest continuously-serving MP was told to keep waiting for...
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Well, can Sir Keith Lindblom do anything about Richard Davidoff’s continuing...
Sir Peter Bottomley, Father of the House and co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform, has asked judge Sir Keith Lindblom (above), the court of appeal judge who...
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More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent...
And at last Redrow, Vistry (Bovis), Miller Homes and Crest Nicholson are dragged into the investigation More than 20,000 leasehold owners have benefited from the Competition and Markets Authority...
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Wyldecrest thwarts attempts by park home activist Tony Turner to provide...
Monday: Park home activists outside Number 10 with Sir Peter Bottomley (left), Sonia McColl OBE, Tony Turner, Paul Baker and David Iles. Later 80 park home residents attended a meeting in the Palace of...
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