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Thanks LKP for raising Grenfell issues. Now we are giving yet more money to...

The housing minister Alok Sharma has thanked LKP for raising Grenfell cladding issues in private apartment blocks. We have intervened in a number of these cases, and will continue to do so. Our...

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LEASE chair Roger Southam launched complaint to Parliamentary Standards...

‘Why was I left out?’ asks Sir Ed Davey Roger Southam, the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, issued a complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner about Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim...

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National Leasehold Campaign tells Roger Southam to resign from LEASE

  UPDATE: Has Roger Southam resigned from Savills? His LinkedIn profile suggest his employment there discontinued at the end of last month. He is now associated with the Eighty Nine Consultancy, which...

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LEASE chair Roger Southam resigns

The taxpayer-funded Leasehold Advisory Service, LEASE,  has announced this evening that its non-executive chair, Roger Southam, has resigned with immediate effect. No explanation for the resignation is...

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Martin Boyd should be the chair of LEASE

By Sebastian O’Kelly, LKP trustee There is only one outstanding candidate to be chair of LEASE and that is Martin Boyd. He is the only person involved in leasehold activism with the knowledge and...

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Is LEASE an institutionally corrupted organisation?

“Institutional corruption is manifest when there is a systemic and strategic influence which is legal, or even currently ethical, that undermines the institution’s effectiveness by diverting it from...

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LKP’s essential leasehold guide in The Sunday Times … feel free to add

By Sebastian O’Kelly It was good to be able to use a small Q&A article in yesterday’s Sunday Times to offer a mini guide for leaseholders. This is the sort of thing the Leasehold Advisory Service...

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Even if you only respond to one question, take part in the Law Commission...

By Sebastian O’Kelly LKP and the National Leasehold Campaign are organising a public meeting for leaseholders with the Law Commission tomorrow afternoon. Law Commissioner Professor Nicholas Hopkins and...

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Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning...

– Select Committee deluged with complaints about taxpayer funded organisation – It failed to alert government to scandals over ground rents and proliferation of leasehold houses – Why did it hold...

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Leasehold Advisory Service has ‘been under review’ for 10 years. Here are the...

The Leasehold Advisory Service, the government funded Leasehold Advisory Service, has been under review by the government for much of the last ten years. This seems to suggest that something is wrong,...

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New interim chair for troubled quango LEASE

Wanda Goldwag, a former marketing executive for British Airways, has been appointed interim chair of the controversial Leasehold Advisory Service. Ms Goldwag, who ran BA’s Air Miles, is chair of the...

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New LEASE chair declines to endorse peppercorn ground rents on BBC

And there will be no leaseholders on the board of LEASE The new chair of the controversial quango the Leasehold Advisory Service declined an invitation to endorse no-monetary value ground rents on BBC...

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London mayor Sadiq Khan launches leasehold advice portal and slams LEASE as...

London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new leasehold advice portal, and has condemned the taxpayer-funded Leasehold Advisory Service as “unfit for purpose”. He also backed “wholesale reform of...

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Government’s slightly wobbly response to the excellent report of the...

By Sebastian O’Kelly The government’s engagement with leasehold abuses is revealed in a lurching, one-step-forward and one-step-back reaction to the Communities Select Committee’s excellent critique of...

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Wanda Goldwag: You owe an apology. You know it. And it is overdue

Bottomley and Fitzpatrick defend LKP in Commons and insist on co-operation with Leasehold Advisory Service Commons debate, July 11 2019 By Sebastian O’Kelly Some of the contributions to the Commons...

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Katie Kendrick gets Rightmove to include full leasehold listings, while LEASE...

Rightmove is to include full information about leasehold properties offered for sale on the on-line estate agency portal after pressure from Katie Kendrick, co-founder of the National Leasehold...

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LKP quits FoPRA as it appoints Roger Southam an ‘esteemed honorary...

LKP has ceased all connection with the Federation of Private Residents Associations after it announced that it had appointed controversial ex-chair of LEASE Roger Southam as an “esteemed honorary...

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Sucking a lemon, the Leasehold Advisory Service notes the ground rent Act –...

The Leasehold Advisory Service, long corroded by close proximity to the commercial interests in leasehold, tersely notes the passing of the enormously important achievement of the Leasehold Reform...

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