@Depheruk
Please point him in the direction of the leaseholders charity LKP
Regarding retrospective ground rent. They can only go back 6 years but LKP will be able to support
@martinboydlkp
@LKPleasehold
Bellway have no shame. They refuse to admit there is a
#Leaseholdscandal
Shame on them.
Hoping the Select Committee Inquiry Report due out next week will reflect what a scandal this actually is.
@CommonsCLG
This week, we heard from housing developers as part of our
#leaseholdreform
inquiry. The CEO of Bellway told us about how they sell freeholds to investors:
The only people who have no right to sue is leaseholders. The only people being asked to pay the extra 10 billion is the leaseholders.
@PBottomleyMP
calls for
@BorisJohnson
to have a fire safety summit with
@LKPleasehold
#NLC
& Cladding groups.
👏👏
@michaelgove
No party can claim to be the party of homeownership when you still have Leasehold in the mix.
⚠️LEASEHOLD IS NOT HOMEOWNERSHIP⚠️
Time to ABOLISH NOT POLISH
#LeaseholdScandal
7 years I have given of my life to get to this point.
7 years I have neglected my own family.
I have a full time job as a nurse.
I am a mum & a wife.
I am a full time carer for my severely disabled mum who is crippled by Multiple Sclerosis and now I have a dad who can't breath.
@MartinSLewis
We MUST look after our Mental Health at this time. This is an unprecedented situation. Health strains & financial strain is going to have a devastating impact on our lives. Keeping good mental health at this time is VITAL. ❤BE KIND❤
#MentalHealthMatters
‼️LEASEHOLD KINGS SPEECH NEWS‼️
🌟All new houses to be freehold in plan to phase out ‘feudal’ leaseholds
🌟Ministers also plan to cap all EXISTING ground rents to a “peppercorn” rate.
It is expected to be one of the first pieces of legislation introduced in the new
My dad died last week, my heart is broken 💔. He stood beside me at many protests and gave me the strength to fight this corrupt system.
My dad said in his final days "Don't trust them Katie. Don't give up"
@michaelgove
how many more people have to die before you take action?
@MartinSLewis
Martin I know that feeling.
🔴6.5 yrs since we launched the NLC
🔴4 years since overwhelming evidence to select committee enquiry in leasehold abuse.
🔴4 years since
@Law_Commission
produced their reports on RTM, Enfranchisment & Commonhold.
🔴4 years since Lord Best ROPA
It never gets any easier running the NLC but this week has been particularly difficult. Just when you think things can't get any worse for leaseholders, leasehold just keeps giving 😢. Kick me whilst I'm down but I will get back up and fight harder than ever before. Katie x
Dear
@michaelgove
Will this week be the week EXISTING leaseholders find out if you are going to reduce their Ground Rent to A Peppercorn?
If Ground Rent is wrong for the future it was wrong for the past
This government MUST "Be on the right side of Justice"
Retweet if agree
Outstanding speech by Lord Blencathra 👏👏
"I enthusiastically support this bill because I have never before been involved in putting lipstick 💄on a pig 🐷"
@LKPleasehold
@justinmadders
@PBottomleyMP
Four years ago TODAY we made the front page of
@thetimes
Yet still Ministers have NOT ENDED THE SCANDAL OF RIP OFF LEASEHOLDS....
Not one peice of legislation has been passed to protect us.
Thousands remain TRAPPED by this countries feudal leasehold system.
@team_greenhalgh
12/ On cladding levy, Lord Greenhalgh says we can’t bankrupt developers. Praised recent contributions from developers. The total amount pledged by developers to date is c. £500 million. Costs estimated at £15 billion. The same developers will receive £30 billion from Help To Buy
BBC's Housing Crisis : What Went Wrong ?
"These housebuilders were being subsidised by taxpayers money through the Help To Buy Scheme to create theses toxic investment assets. They cheated their customers & took the rest of us for a ride as well"
@LKPLeasehold
@michaelgove
💥💥A MOMENTOUS DAY FOR LEASEHOLDERS 💥💥
'The Leasehold & Freehold Bill has received Royal Assent'
Despite 3 hours the
@UKHouseofLords
turning into an echo chamber for Landlords this afternoon eventually they agreed to pass the Bill.
This is an amazing illustration of People
Government guidance on cladding "allowed unscrupulous people to exploit a broken system in a way that led to tragedy"
@michaelgove
He wants the leasehold system of homeownership he calls "an outdated feudal system" to be SCRAPPED by the end of this Parliament
#LeaseholdScandal
BBC'S HOUSING CRISIS
"No-one had really noticed, including a lot of my predecessors that quietly the development industry had turned the leasehold system into quite a nice little earner. They could see the maths"
@kitmalthouse
@LKPleasehold
@Michaelgove
People are going bankrupt as we are having these debates. Leaseholders are begging for support up & down the country. 3.5yrs on & we are not getting this right; government are unfortunately making the situation worse"
@SMcPartland
@team_greenhalgh
#BuildingsafetyCrisis
@ukcag
Instead of enjoying the glorious sunshine 🌞 with family & loved ones leaseholders instead spent yet MORE of their time fighting to be safe in their homes.
This is a NATIONAL DISGRACE !!!
@team_greenhalgh
@RobertJenrick
#EnoughIsEnough
The NLC Facebook group is inundated with desperate leaseholders trapped in homes they can't sell due to onerous ground rents because the government FAILED to bring in a Ground Rent Cap.
⚠️THE BILL FAILS THEM⚠️
Leaseholders now face more uncertainty.
@luhc
@Keir_Starmer
Great to hear
@team_greenhalgh
state firmly "LEASEHOLD REFORM IS COMING MORE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY".Lord Young "Leasehold is a relic from a feudal age that exists nowhere else in the world. Instead of patching it up we should be replacing with Commonhold !
#GetCommonholdDone
Leaseholder left without a roof for 4 months leaving her homeless with her son and 2 dogs.
Leaseholders are powerless. They don't own the building but have to suffer when freeholders get it wrong
THIS IS NOT LEVELLING UP
@KwajoHousing
@PBottomleyMP
@luhc
#LeaseholdScandal
"Trapped by the growth of the leasehold scandal - pay twice for services that people normally receive through paying council tax"
@alistrathern
"The Government are quickly implementing the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
@LucyMPowell
#LeaseholdScandal
@mtpennycook
Tory rebels vow to fight cladding law
Tory backbenchers have promised a fresh rebellion over the plight of leaseholders, saying a bill put forward last week represented a “devastating blow” for residents of high-rise buildings
#EndOurCladdingScandal
Looking forward to spending the evening with
@AngelaRayner
and
@MikeAmesburyMP
I will be reminding
@UKLabour
they have outstanding business to 'End the LeaseholdScandal' which despite the expressed desire from all parties to want to end it; actually NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
@RobertJenrick
Are you seriously going to stamp all over the hard work the
@Law_Commission
have put into their leasehold reform proposals released TODAY. 2 yrs work down the pan for 2 stories that will have a detrimental financial impact on Leaseholders.
@LKPleasehold
Tomorrow I head back to work
@RobertJenrick
to my OTHER job as a pediatric nurse. Today I have spent the day on my OTHER full time job I have running the National Leasehold Campaign with over 17.5k leaseholders desperate for help.🌈 Happy Nurses Day 🌈
#NursesDay2020
Please help
🔷Tomorrow I will be making a statement in
@UKParliament
.
🏡As Secretary of State at
@mhclg
I'll be updating Parliament on important news for the housing market.
📺You'll be able to watch at
Leaseholders heartbroken & helpless in Bedford
WHERE HAS THEIR £269,000 GONE?
The tribunal heard parking spaces belonging to the leaseholders were put up for pay & display & the freeholder is pocketing the money
@BBCLookEast
Phil Shepka
#LeaseholdScandal
@alistrathern
"The irony is that many of those who have done the most to bring the leasehold scandal to the public’s attention—The National Leasehold Campaign—stand to benefit the least from this Bill because there is nothing in it to help existing leaseholders"
@justinmadders
@LKPleasehold
I can not tell you the amount of people that are absolutely devastated by your announcement today
@RobertJenrick
Lots of tears 😢 I am so worried about leaseholders state of mind this evening 💔
#EndOurCladdingScandal
Plans to abolish ‘feudal’ leasehold system in England & Wales dropped.
"Gove wanted to be a maximalist on leaseholder reform, but we simply haven’t got time to be maximalist right now”
@michaelgove
More broken promises from this government.
@kiranstacey
⭐LEASEHOLD REVOLUTION⭐
Gone are the days leaseholders don't have a voice.
Whatever the issue - one message remains
#Leaseholderstogether
***Re Tweet if you are with us with this message***
💪💪💪💪
@EOCS_Official
@LKPleasehold
Today on the Leasehold Bill Committee.
The
@RFAssociation
, who represent the big landlords, tried to persuade us that Ground Rents were justified & pension funds would suffer if they were abolished.
Sorry. Not buying it!
Hallelujah !
@RobertJenrick
intends to right the wrongs of Leasehold as quickly as possible & will respond to the
@Law_Commission
reports in due course
Lets hope he enacts ALL of the proposals & embraces Commonhold to ensure people truly 'own' their homes
@LKPleasehold
The Ground Rent Act 2022 didn't help EXISTING leaseholders ......
And the long awaited King's Speech has left many flat leaseholders feeling left behind.
Houses & Flats, it makes no difference. Abuse via leasehold is abuse.
‼️IT MUST STOP ✋️ FOR ALL‼️
@michaelgove
"All we want for Xmas ...... to hear we don't have to pay sums of money they do not have to fix a problem they are not responsible for
@hilarybennmp
@michaelgove
confirms he will come back BEFORE XMAS. We will do everything we can to help.
WILL XMAS COME EARLY ?🎄🎄🎄🎄
Ahead of this weekends Labour Conference, good to see
@AngelaRayner
not ignoring the outstanding business Labour has with ending the Leasehold Scandal.
Hope we hear more about this in the next few days at conference.......
@PippaCrerar
#NLCVan
We created the NLC almost 5 years ago. We were three strangers with one thing in common (Leasehold) and now these 2 ladies know me better than most. Couldn't do it without them
@cattwil
@JoDarbyshire12
❤❤❤
#NewProfilePic
The “lucrative” lease extension and enfranchisement business run by property management companies is “a golden goose that has been plucked bald” and industry concerns about government reforms were “all too predictable”
@LKPleasehold
👏👏
@michaelgove
Good to see
@mtpennycook
on Day 1 after summer recess confirming
@UKLabour
position & commitment to end the feudal leasehold system
"There are MANY failings of the Leasehold System which is why at the end of this Parliament we aim to finally end it" 👏👏
#LeaseholdScandal
.
@LordRoyKennedy
highlights again in
@UKHouseofLords
that the Leasehold & Freehold Bill doesn't go far enough
@TheLordYoung
speaks on Draconian Forfeiture
@KathPinnock
"Freeholders treat their Leaseholders as CashCows"
"Why can't we be more radical & ABOLISH LEASEHOLD?"
Church of England steps into leasehold reform debate
Church of England has said it will oppose the government’s pledge to abolish marriage value as part of its leasehold reforms 🤬🤬
SHAME ON YOU !!!!
@churchofengland
#LeaseholdScandal
Thankyou so much to everyone who made today a MASSIVE success ❤
It was truly magical to see so much support and to see MPS CROSS PARTY working together, because its via
#LeaseholdersTogether
we will get the results ALL leaseholders deserve !
@EOCS_Official
@LKPleasehold
This is the hardest post I have ever had to write
Today 'Leasehold Legend'
@LouiePBurns
passed away 😭 Our hearts feel broken 💔
He always referred to us as "Three Northern Amazonian Women" Somehow we will find the strength to carry on his fight
RIP
@JoDarbyshire12
@cattwil
About 20 backbenchers have demanded that residents should not pay for cladding repairs
A political rebellion could save homeowners in flats with cladding from potentially ruinous repair costs
#EndOurCladdingScandal
@adamfrwilliams
HAS YOUR MP SIGNED?