Category: Press Releases

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.

Please share far and wide!

Recently HorNet tweeted at the Labour Leader of the house over delays and backtracking in implementing their promises over Leasehold and Private Estate Maintenance Charges (EMCs). Lucy Powell’s encouraging response was deleted within half an hour which raised alarm and appears to confirm that the government are backtracking on their manifesto promises and King’s speech declaration. 

We see that the Secretary of State has been hobnobbing with freehold lawyers – could this have something to do with the backtracking??? Here is an article from the political blog order-order.com about the incidents:

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.