In a recent Prime Ministers Questions session, Kier Starmer repeated the exact wording of the party manifesto on fleecehold. Not promising to get rid of it, but merely to address the injustice of it!
Here is the clip:
Just what does the government mean by ”the injustice” of fleecehold? We hold that the fundamental injustice is privately managed public spaces and amenities on which we, the estate dwellers, pay uncapped upkeep costs. We have most commonly been hoodwinked into taking on this liability at the sales offices of the big builders. Conveyancers have failed to warn us, but the material facts were withheld at the point of sale by the vendors.
In spite of the Competition and Markets Authority recommending more adoption (the only just solution in our view), the government appears to be full steam ahead in Titanic fashion towards the iceberg of regulating agents and greater transparency. Whilst this may reduce the excesses of overcharging for poor or no service, it does nothing to remove the unfair burden on estate dwellers with obligations to pay for estate upkeep.
We campaign to STOP THE ROT ADOPT THE LOT- please keep the pressure up on your MPs by asking them to consider that only adoption would properly address “the injustice of fleecehold”.
