A full page article showing the extent of this growing problem and describing the role of developers and councils in creating it. HorNet members have contributed case studies. Read at:
Unadopted roads dodge in The Times
Members Quotes from FaceBook
This is a selection of partially anonymised quotes from our closed FaceBook group. It gives a range of views and experiences from across the UK. We have many members who could provide case studies for news articles:
On our estate, we maintain the areas but the Council set up an S106 to give the public access – grass areas and woodland. Therefore we pay to clear their litter and damage. I feel they have been hand-in-glove with developers, taking a “bribe” of cash injections for playgrounds etc. and facilitating this scam to make freehold home owners pay to maintain.
SS, Braintree
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More on Fleecehold
On Thursday 28th Sept 2017, Radio 4 You and Yours aired this excellent item on fleecehold with case studies from the National Leasehold Campaign group
Although the estate management charges are not mentioned this time, it is becoming increasingly clear that our groups might have started off in different places focusing on one aspect, but we are ending up at the same place. The private estate has been sneaked under the radar, and has become a new asset class. How many people believe that all the restrictions are to protect residents from each other? Why would you need this degree of control? Surely it is more about protecting and preserving the asset – the private estate?