The disastrous tick-box approach to building safety that has dragged so many low-rise blocks into the cladding crisis and rendered flats unsellable is being addressed by RICS and the mortgage lenders.
It is a welcome return to rigour and sense in adopting a risk-based approach for these low-rise buildings. It is announced here:
New consultation as guidance aims to improve consistency in EWS1 requests
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has today issued proposed guidance for public consultation.
Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins has paid tribute to the ‘crucial’ role in contributing to the three reports which will be the basis for a reform of leasehold and the re-establishment of commonhold
Dear Sir Peter,
Following the publication of our Reports on enfranchisement, the right to manage, and commonhold in July, I would like to put on record my thanks to the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership (LKP), as secretariat to the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform, for the constructive engagement they have had with us throughout our work.
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 the leasehold reforms advocated by the Law Commission.
It will be a two-stage process, precisely following LKP’s recommended approach, which will see new ground rents banned in the upcoming session of Parliament.
This will have huge implications on how the agenda to reform leasehold is carried through.
And housing associations need to help shared-owners
The senior MPs who are chairs of the APPG on leasehold have told the government today that freeholders should pay for cladding remediation or pass the freeholds on to the leaseholders living in the blocks.
The message comes from Sir Peter Bottomley, Father of the House, Sir Ed Davey, leader of the LibDems, and Justin Madders, who are also the patron MPs of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership.
