Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether an effective date applies to the definition of a relevant building in relation to the leaseholder protections under the Building Safety Act 2022.
Current leaseholder protection guidance published 21 July 2022 on gov.uk sets out that leaseholder-owned buildings includes:
(a) collectively enfranchised buildings – where some, or all, of the qualifying leaseholders have bought the building’s freehold;
(b) any building where leaseholders directly own the freehold, including through a company, where there is no separate freeholder; and,
(c) other circumstances where the freehold is owned 100% by one or more leaseholders.
The effective date in relation to the leaseholder protections under the Building Safety Act 2022 is 14 February 2022.