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Open Petition since 10th April 2024

Abolish leasehold ownership in its entirety - 84 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 298 - 3 added in the past 24hrs)

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill does not liberate leaseholders currently living in flats from what we see as a feudal type of ownership.

Found: This petition calls for the total abolition of leasehold ownership in the UK, either by amending the


Lords Chamber
Leasehold Reform - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) for flats in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill contains a substantial package of measures to increase - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) We remain committed to continuing our leasehold and commonhold reforms, and the Bill is a major step - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) houses, with leasehold flats, which comprise 75% of leasehold, here to stay. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) It does not ban the sale of new leasehold flats. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bray of Coln (Con - Life peer) Leasehold for newly built single houses is to be abolished, so it is leasehold flats—which make up the - Speech Link
3: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) Nothing is being brought in on Part 1, on leasehold houses, Part 2, on leasehold enfranchisement and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None that a lease granted out of a historic leasehold estate is a lease granted on a leasehold estate acquired - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Those of us who have been involved in leasehold, and in the debate about leasehold and some of the criticisms - Speech Link
3: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) The purported ban on new leasehold houses does not actually ban all new leasehold houses—a point that - Speech Link
4: None the inherent limitations of leasehold ownership”. - Speech Link
5: None In short, extending a ban on new leasehold houses to include new leasehold flats, without a viable alternative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold: Property Management Companies - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill will make long-term changes to improve home ownership for millions - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Surely the leasehold Bill should put a stop to that. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister will be aware that legislation in 2000 and 2004 abolished leasehold in Scotland - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) At the time, there were only some 9,000 long leasehold properties in Scotland, compared with around 5 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Leasehold Reform and New Homes - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) The current leasehold system is not fair, and it is certainly not just. - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is already a great achievement. - Speech Link
3: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) Find out more about leasehold ground rents.Please do not send applications to redeem leasehold ground - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Members know, yesterday we banned the creation of new leasehold houses. - Speech Link
5: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) An example of that is leasehold houses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None I turn lastly to new leasehold homes. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None include a mortgage term;“long lease” has the meaning given by sections 76 and 77 of the Commonhold and Leasehold - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) , our amendments in this group go to the heart of one of the current serious injustices relating to leasehold - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) and freehold estate.Amendment 55 seeks to address one of the ways in which leasehold law is tilted in - Speech Link
4: None Reform Act 1967”.Leasehold Reform Act 1979 2 In section 1 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1979 (price of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) There are genuine evils in the leasehold system. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) non-leasehold flats. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the first chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) We are trying to rebalance the rights between freehold and leasehold. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) I also agree that leasehold is ripe for bold reform. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Residential Leasehold for Flats - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Of course, we welcome the reform of leasehold, but with 5 million leasehold properties in England, 70% - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Therefore, banning leasehold flats is inherently more complicated. - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) He said:“I don’t believe leasehold is fair in any way. - Speech Link