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November 10, 2024November 22, 2024

Adoption for All!

We have taken a little time to think about the governments’ response to the Competition and Markets Authority recommendations in their recent Housebuilding Market Study. The CMA have recommended more adoption together with better regulation and consumer protection. We do not agree that regulation will solve all of the issues caused by privately managed public areas, only adoption will do this.

Our main concern now is to avoid a two tier system leaving existing estates privately managed and further devalued whilst new future estates are adopted. We have to push for universal adoption and ask our supporters to email their MPs asking them to put pressure on the government to change their tack and put an end to this iniquitous exploit for good.

Here is our statement which you can download and forward to your MP, councillors and the media. We have to hold the government to account – they have made promises in their election manifesto and in the King’s speech.

statementNov24 Download

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August 11, 2024September 14, 2024

Adoption Policy Briefing August 2024

We have produced this document for any supporter/fellow sufferer to lobby their MP – it would be great if an APPG task force was set up by the MPs who have strongly supported us from all parties in the past. We will also be sharing it with a number of government agencies and it could inform supporters when the time comes to engage with the upcoming government consultation.

adoptionbriefing Download

July 20, 2024July 22, 2024

The King’s Speech

At the opening of the new session of parliament following the general election, the King lays out his government’s plans for future legislation.

After 8 years of campaigning we are in it – with a promise to “end the injustice of private estate management”.

As many of you know, the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 was rushed through at the end of the last session under the Conservative regime. Much work is still to be done on the detail, but there are parts which are in force straight away – of special interest to “fleeceholders” with a rent charge is the removal of the section 121 remedies for non payment of the estate rent charge. Now it can only be chased as a debt in the county court.

It does appear that the detailed statutory instruments for the right to challenge estate charges and appoint a new manager are not in place yet. Nor are the detailed regulations for managing agents as far as we can see.

The good news in the king’s speech is that not only will the new government finalise this Act, but it plans to go much further, implementing the Law Commission recommendations on Leasehold and laying the groundwork for much more commonhold tenure in future.

For “fleecehold” they have pledged to get rid of the “injustices” but don’t say how! Expect more consultations on that one. We will continue to lobby for universal adoption of public spaces on estates, new or old. There is no place for private management or ownership of these spaces.

Working together as a network has been successful in getting the issue to this stage and our ambition is to build on this to get the model scrapped altogether.