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In
@thesundaytimes
@PBottomleyMP
now calls for cladding leaseholders to be compensated rather than forced to pay
@EOCS_Official
@Melmbr
@LKPleasehold
@MilesDilworth
@Lees_Martina
@team_greenhalgh
if officials had listened in Nov 2017 we would not be in this mess
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London has hundreds of ,000s of worthless flats because builders were allowed to create dangerous homes under defective regulations. Flats with faults builders refuse to fix
Isn’t this a problem you would need to solve first before letting those builders put up more homes
After the year we’ve had, London needs a plan for recovery.
Taxing builders will not help. London needs more homes, and this new tax will stop them being built.
London needs to be open for business.
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To say that the government’s treatment of cladding leaseholders has been cruel over the last 44 months would be an understatement.
The government has not spent a penny helping support the voluntary groups helping cladding leaseholders
@EOCS_Official
Mis-selling from PPI to falsifying vehicle emissions levels have seen customers compensated but if you had the misfortune to buy an unsafe flat you're on your own. We must protect innocent leaseholders.
@ukcag
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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Sorry
@team_greenhalgh
but
@hmtreasury
is entirely wrong on this one. Instead of spending time working out how to charge leaseholders for things they accept are not their fault, the government should have spent a lot more time trying to find ways to make those at fault pay
Financing schemes may be the ‘only answer’ for resolving some building safety issues, says minister
#ukhousing
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@RishiSunak
the collapse of the market in flat sales continues
Nov 2016 16.5k flats sold - total value £4.7 billion
Nov 2020 9.25k flats sold - total value £2.7 billion
The proposed government "loan" scheme will make things even worse
@EOCS_Official
@team_greenhalgh
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Something is very wrong when the UK government has to “request”
@ballymore
provides details of how they intend to remediate nearly 4 years after Grenfell
@RobertJenrick
In docklands with
@EOCS_Official
today listening to harrowing stories from
@npwlra
following reckless delays
@robertjenrick
also requested an urgent progress report on remaining buildings in
@Ballymore
’s portfolio that need remediation and assurances that work will be undertaken swiftly. 3/4
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Monday finally sees the introduction of the leasehold and freehold reform bill. 12 years work from
@LKPleasehold
and 6 years work from
@NLC_2019
finally begins to move forward.
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Monday sees the government introduce new proposals to provide better protection for leaseholders in the building safety bill. All leaseholders watch with expectation
@michaelgove
@team_greenhalgh
It shouldn’t have taken 1706 days of suffering to get this far
@EOCS_Official
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MPs
@mtpennycook
and
@justinmadders
post the leasehold debate which voted 174-0 to abolish leasehold
It was a non binding vote but sends a very clear message
@RishiSunak
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The government could and should have worked with MPs to find a better solution a long time ago
@ChrisPincher
is one of many Ministers who has said - leaseholders should not pay to fix something which isn't their fault. He then defends passing a bill that does the exact opposite
The Lords have voted to amend the
#FireSafetyBill
again. The amendment formerly known as McPartland/Smith will come back to the Commons again. I feel sure now, seeing the strength of feeling in both Houses, the Government will want to compromise.
@BishopStAlbans
@SMcPartland
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The half-baked fire safety act 2021 starts to impact as people begin to talk nonsense about fire doors.
@team_greenhalgh
it's not complex a front door does not need checking every few months it's a door, not a money-making machine.
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A request has gone to
@michaelgove
asking he urgently clarify the statement that "leaseholders living in their own flat" will be protected
@LKPleasehold
understands leaseholders and shared owners forced to sublet will be included in the protections
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I think it's true to say
@ChrisPincher
has never felt it relevant to meet any cladding leaseholders in his role as Minister
@EOCS_Official
??
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It is a pity Dame Judith never took the time to understand why leaseholders have no right to carry out the type of survey she now suggests should be undertaken
@team_greenhalgh
Post-Grenfell fire safety: leaseholders risk being fleeced, warns top adviser
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Good morning to all
@LEASEonline
staff
As you know LEASE has been under almost constant review/threat since 2014. That stops as of today!
For at least the next 3 years LEASE will be expanding all its existing work and taking on 2 new roles to help leaseholders
@michaelgove
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Tomorrow will see the strongest condemnation of any proposed government reform since the Poll Tax
Every newspaper, TV & radio outlet, every developer, landlord and resident group + a lots of conservative MPs will criticise the Building Saftey Bill
@RobertJenrick
U need to talk
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Q: are
@mhclg
in breach of their fundamental obligations with cladding contracts
“Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing.”
(BREAKING):
@thesundaytimes
exposes the
#BuildingSafetyFund
gagging clauses.
Innocent Leaseholders will lose the public funding if they go to
#press
even if the "disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest"
@PhilH23
@gtomlin
@GrenfellUnited
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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The
@mhclg
press team has turned itself into a third world propaganda service
It does “not recognise” data produced by
@ARMAleasehold
and
@IRPMONLINE
it claims
@EOCS_Official
data quoted in the press is “unpublished”
As for MHCLG data - it’s confidential for security reasons
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@RishiSunak
This proposal is a lot more sophisticated than other options being looked at and is the only one that will stop the ongoing destruction of property values.
It should not have taken 3.5 years to get this far. The problem was obvious in 2017.
Good the Sunday Times has outlined LKP remediation fund proposal succinctly:
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This is the biggest story on insurance in the leasehold sector for a long time.
The
@TheFCA
need to act now
@team_greenhalgh
@RobertJenrick
Rendall and Rittner … no insurance commissions, but it owns an offshore ‘captive’ insurance company making a 40% profit on leaseholders’ premiums
@ARMAleasehold
@IRPMONLINE
@TheFCA
@suejbright
@in_nominate
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Not a newspaper, developer, landlord, lender or leaseholder in the country thinks the government is getting this right
@BorisJohnson
please stop saying leaseholders should not pay while letting others send them the bill
Things have gone vert wrong we need a summit meeting
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On Monday just after 3:30
@RobertJenrick
introduces what is effectively v2 of the building safety bill
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A terrible story we all wished would never have to be published
@michaelgove
@team_greenhalgh
we must find solutions and find them soon
I’m potentially giving another
@ODIHQ
talk later this month the draft title is “death by numbers”.
@PBottomleyMP
@LKPleasehold
The news of Tom Mansell's death is absolutely devastating.
Our hearts go out to his family and friends 💔
We have written to Michael Gove about Tom’s tragic death - our letter will be published shortly.
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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Why is
@RishiSunak
taking huge profits from the cladding crisis but happy to fund help to buy developer subsidies.
Treasury has also protected the lenders and insurers from risk but not pensioners or first time buyers
@PBottomleyMP
@libdemdaisy
@justinmadders
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How has
@TheFCA
looked the other way for so long remembering most leasehold sites are not able to defend their rights
@michaelgove
the insurance issue goes beyond commissions!
‘It’s just outrageous’: leaseholders face down landlords over insurance costs
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This is getting stupid. the government has been round the loop at least twice to know why the banks can’t make these types of loans.
They first looked at this option in early 2018.
Banks not allowed to lend when n asset is deemed to have its value compromised be safety issues.
Downing Street asks banks to help solve cladding crisis
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A huge thankyou
@michaelgove
for accepting regulations faulty an calling for the end of leasehold by the end of this Parliament
@NLC_2019
@LKPleasehold
@PBottomleyMP
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2021 should see
@NFCCChair
and Ken Knight called to account on their position on wooden cladding.
What did these experts do or say when wooden cladding and balconies was being installed for decades? Why did they think it safe then but not now.
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Some good news for leaseholders and potentially bad news for
@BritishInsurers
and
@HomeBuildersFed
. The new SoS
@SimonClarkeMP
makes clear there is no turning back
@EOCS_Official
@NLC_2019
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We are waiting for permission to go public on another cladding site where the developer refuses to fix the cladding but now plans to add two storeys. What have you done
@RobertJenrick
So when I raised the fact that we will witness freeholders putting upward extensions on flats still not remediated the Minister shook his head implying I was scaremongering. Well it really did not take long for yet another element of this disaster to unfold.
#claddingscandal
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Finally managed to work my way through the draft building safety bill
The supply side of the sector has been deeply involved in developing this policy over three years while “consumer interests” have been excluded
Lawyers have called the bill a car crash. I agree
@DameJudithH
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Agreed, but I have to tell my kids you can’t use help to buy, you mustn’t use shared ownership, shouldn’t touch a high rise flat and don’t look at a leasehold house
Why, because every day we’re asked to help so many where dreams have become nightmares. Even some MPs are trapped
It is our duty to deliver housing for the next generation, and reinvigorate the dream of home ownership.
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Well done
@michaelgove
for looking at a re: system on insurance. We have been flagging this as an option since 2018 the insurance sector does not support
Please note there is a £6 bill surplus in poor re: which might also be used!!
@team_greenhalgh
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It's a massively disappointing to lose
@michaelgove
and
@team_greenhalgh
and this could slow reform down again.
However there is a long list of ex Ministers from the Department who've joined the APPG on leasehold reform to help. Lord Greenhalgh has joined already!!!
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100’s of UK civil servants have looked at Australia and though they knew better.
It was obvious in 2017 Australia had understood a way forward and we didn’t.
The Michael Wade proposals may as well be called Wonga loans
Re-posting from Wednesday: my interview with the co-chair of Victoria's Cladding Taskforce-
🇦🇺 "you can't ask people who weren't responsible to pay for it."
🔨 "it's not a financial solution, it’s a fix solution.”
💰 "innocent parties saw taking out a loan... as incongruous"
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@Pensioners4GR
You know the impact assessment makes clear no compensation is payable?
I guess you also know most GR investments purchased at a fraction of their valuation?
You must know GR investments a tiny fraction of almost all pension funds?
You knew GR investments weren’t ESG compliant?
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Odd how
@avivaplc
is failing to help on the cladding sites they own but at the same time warn reform is dangerous as it would push professionals like themselves out of the market.
A pity they got into these dodgy deals in the first place?
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Perhaps an emergency meeting among cladding groups needed in the next few days
@EOCS_Official
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To all the main voluntary leaseholder groups like
@NLC_2019
@EOCS_Official
@LKPleasehold
@FoPRA
and many others that means as of today we are here to help you
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@RishiSunak
The total value of flats sold in September 2020 collapsed by 44% compared to Sept 2019.
By contrast, the total value of house sales only dropped by 5%
@EOCS_Official
@LKPleasehold
@team_greenhalgh
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I first warned senior members of the
@mhclg
leasehold and building safety teams about the fact building insurance was becoming a big problem in December 2018. It happened in the formal monthly meetings with the APPG
They said they’d not seen any evidence of an issue
Too risky to insure.But ok for ppl to live in.The
@Conservatives
sit on their hands & await the next disaster.
@team_greenhalgh
how's this for an increase? £6600 /flat for building's insurance. Your £7 c tax increase was outrageous to you.
@EOCS_Official
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“No-one will have to pay more than £50 a month”
Sorry
@ChrisClarksonMP
your statement factually wrong
1) The £50 is only for certain buildings
2) The £50 is only for cladding not other related safety works
3) The £50 is only a gov aspiration NOT a formally agreed policy
'No-one will have to pay more than £50 a month.'
Not only is this morally wrong regardless, it's incorrect.
Leaseholders continue to receive bills for 1000s and blocks continue to be rejected from the BSF.
#EndOurCladdingScandal
#NotJustCladding
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Dear
@BorisJohnson
you have written to
@PBottomleyMP
regarding his call for a summit on the building safety crisis.
I am afraid some of the points you raise are wrong as a matter of fact
@EOCS_Official
@team_greenhalgh
@RobertJenrick
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Respect is due for the first Minister to acknowledge a “total regulatory system failure” - I would only partly disagree with his second comment about construction culture - defective regulations drove down standards and the limitation of liability to 6 years exacerbates problems
@BldgSafetyReg
@emmadentcoad
@MikeAmesburyMP
@RBKC
4/ For the avoidance of doubt I will continue trying my utmost to fix the
#CladdingCrisis
that is a direct result of total regulatory system failure + a construction culture that is rotten to the core as the second phase of the
#GrenfellTower
inquiry is now showing.
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The
@theresa_may
said the leaseholders should not pay and she did not rule anything out if building owners would not pay
From the Skyline decision that seems someone secretly ruled in making sure the leaseholders would pay
@EOCS_Official
@PeteApps
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A very special welcome to
@SMcPartland
to the APPG on Leasehold and Commonhold reform co Chaired by
@PBottomleyMP
@justinmadders
@libdemdaisy
@LKPleasehold
@EOCS_Official
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The property trade mags like
@PropIndEye
should stop printing the same 11th hour propaganda from same rep of same landlords trade body trying to keep their business model of making money from other peoples homes
A model everyone accepts needs to go
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The three
@NLC_2019
admins Katie, Cath and Jo can be very proud of their huge efforts over the last three years in helping get this result. So can the many thousands of NLC supporters.
📢The CMA has found troubling evidence of potential mis-selling & unfair contract terms in the leasehold housing sector, & is set to launch enforcement action📢
We are not surprised !
A massive thankyou to the
@CMAgovUK
for listening
#Leaseholdscandal
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SoS
@michaelgove
you asked I be a fearless champion for consumers
So I ask
@JustinWelby
why
@churchofengland
commissioners argue against leasehold reform?
What legitimate long term returns are limited by leaseholders being allowed to control their own homes?
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It this is a statement by an
@mhclg
or
@hmtreasury
official they should be investigated as it would be in breach of the civil service code
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If PM
@BorisJohnson
and his wife find it difficult to pay £58K for decorating their home how do they expect leaseholders like this chef to pay £80-90K to fix cladding that is not their fault on a building they do not own
After 4 years we need a summit
.
@PBottomleyMP
calls on
@BorisJohnson
to hold fire safety funding summit
@EOCS_Official
#EndOurCladdingScandal
@ukcag
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It’s all very well for
@BorisJohnson
to say they will consider option in the future but MHCLG knew the issues over 3 years ago and leaseholders have been paying ever since.
The PM
@BorisJohnson
tells the Commons he will consider proposal to tax building product firms as a way to fund cladding remediation.
Why has it taken so long?
#endourcladdingscandal
#notjustcladding
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Now that Brexit is over someone
@10DowningStreet
might notice this story is in the national press TV and radio week in week out. Times, Mail, Guardian Telegraph and Mirror this weekend I think.
Zut alors the pesky European press will be covering the issue next.
We are going broke, forced to pay to protect developers that built our dangerous homes.
Govt rewards them by putting them on
@HomesEngland
VIP list & throws taxpayer funds at them.
From
@TheSundayMirror
@midsmediaagency
#BuildingSafetyCrisisUK
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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Perhaps
@InsuranceJamesD
can explain these price changes and why ABI members have been paying very high commissions to landlords for decades. (Just remember James that's the FCA view, not mine)
Just had news today of our increased insurance for our block.
2020 = £34,445
2021 = £279,091.27
How is this even allowed?! Insurance companies profiting out of the total misery we are dealing with. The building has not changed!! 🤬
#EndOurCladdingScandal
@ukcag
@team_greenhalgh
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There has to be massive questions over the Minister's choice of "experts" to advise on a more "proportionate" approach given some were exactly the "experts" who drove the totally disproportionate approach for 4 years.
Knight and
@RoyWilsher
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Staggeringly good evidence session.
@garyportercbe
pulls no punches.
@LKPleasehold
@willmartin88
and
@ARMAleasehold
well done and also
@KateNHF
@mhclg
massively underestimated the size of the problem for years.
The BSB and Hackitt are NOT the answer.
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
TODAY - Meeting starts at 4.00pm Subject: Cladding Remediation - Follow-up
@CommonsHCLG
@LKPleasehold
@ARMAleasehold
@ukcag
@garyportercbe
@LGAcomms
#EndOurFireSafetyScandal
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It seems a lot of people are aware
@RobertJenrick
is heading to docklands this evening to see for himself. Perhaps a chance to persuade
@ballymore
to move forward with remediation of their ACM blocks.
Very very close call.
@team_greenhalgh
&
@RobertJenrick
what will it take for
@mhclg
to take meaningful action and protect residents in these dangerous blocks?
#EndOurCladdingScandal
#leaseholdscandal
@NLC_2019
@EOCS_Official
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Let’s hope
@CommonsHCLG
MPs ask
@team_greenhalgh
about the key role of
@hmtreasury
I understand they are refusing to talk let alone listen, their loan proposal fundamentally flawed, their approach to insurance ill advised, declining to make developers pay for failings v odd.
📅 Make sure you clear your diary to watch MPs in
@CommonsHCLG
committee when they ask questions to Lord Greenhalgh tomorrow
#EndOurCladdingScandal
#NotJustCladding
👇
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Almost 3 years on from Grenfell is it time to call gov building safety experts to account?
In many cases the same group of experts who decided buildings safe are now the same ones who deem the same buildings so unsafe they need WW and interim fire alarms and urgent remediation
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Huge respect to
@commonslibrary
The only part of the government with the honesty and integrity to mention
@LKPleasehold
over many years
Here is their latest on cladding issues
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@team_greenhalgh
@GlennSeat
1) There is NO evidence to show there is a need for a BSM during the occupation phase -property managers always had access to the right skills
2) The sector created the concept of the BSM pre the BSB as a means to make money for themselves rather than make buildings safer
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How many more cladding leaseholders have to cry when they meet you
@RobertJenrick
before something changes
Officials warned about insurance in 2018
Warned about issues faced by RMC/RTM in 17/18/19
Warned about the stress in 17/18/19/20
Warned about the law 17/18/19/20
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It was very early in 2018 when journalists attended their first tribunal hearing on cladding remediation and couldn’t believe the law worked as it does
Officials felt justice must follow its course. That course inevitably left leaseholders dashed in the rock
@BorisJohnson
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Disappointing to hear words spoken on behalf of
@BishManchester
arguing for continued leasehold wrongs on the basis the church uses that money to do good
It took the CoE 100’s years to update their position on a greater unfairness
@JustinWelby
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It is important for
#claddingscandal
leaseholders to complete this government consultation on a planned developer levy
It plan does not:
1) make the polluter pay
2) introduce new remediation funds
3) start until 6 years after Grenfell
@EOCS_Official
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How much longer will the government make kids like Dexter suffer
How much longer will people be forced not to have kids to avoid the
#CladdingScandal
How much longer will people be forced to live in dangerous, valueless homes paying for someone else’s mistakes
@BorisJohnson
“I'm always thinking about it”
Dexter is one of millions across the UK who are trapped in the
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
#WeAreTrapped
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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@LKPleasehold
trustee Louie Burns passed away last year. He would have been very proud, and surprised, that a Conservative peer would argue so well why 1,000 years of feudal land ownership needs to end.
Lord Blencathra ....
"We have a situation where all futures serves will be free from bondage but existing ones still pay the masters"
He invites the
@UKHouseofLords
to support an amendment that ALL existing leases become a peppercorn ones.
#leaseholdscandal
@LKPleasehold
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If MHCLG knew about the flammability of insulation in 2014 does that not change the picture?
Evidence has already shown the BRE helping providers pass the tests. If the
@mhclg
was fully aware of the flammability of cladding in 2014 and did nothing that must have big implications
After two tedious days of Tony Millichap saying it was always the intention to transition to a new K15 technology, we finally have something interesting that shows DCLG had become aware of PIR being specified on high rise flats. The timing of this is important ...
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Welcome back
@michaelgove
Could you ask your team to check the sectors latest money making venture.
It seems the
@FireIndustry
is charging £180 to upload EWS1 certificate and the fire engineers are charging for uploading.
@EOCS_Official
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Dear
@RobertJenrick
you were quick to offer condolences on the death of Tony Pidgley and always v fast replying to Mr Desmond. A vv fast to offer £330 billion loans
Could I trouble you to address the letter we sent you on important housing issues
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After 12 years of trying to help address the problems in the leasehold sector I have decided it’s time to stand down.
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This is the third attempt to clarify which buildings need EWS. It only works IF the lenders and the insurers agree. Having most lenders and most insurers support is not good enough
This is a mess caused by
@mhclg
poor management but
@RICSnews
have been high handed from the start
So is this a positive move?
Yes, definitely a step in the right direction. Firstly, it provides much clearer guidance on what and what doesn't require an EWS. The use of floors as a measure, rather than height, makes assessments of whether a building will need a check easier.
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I have seen very few “building owners” battling developers for fix their building. Also very few fire engineers and surveyors who noticed problems before Grenfell. What I mostly see is an entire sector looking to fix their own mistakes for a tidy profit
@martinboydlkp
I hear you martin. But i have found and reported buildings that are now at the heart of the building owner vs developer battle. So we are trying our best. And we do fight for you and your safety.
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“The bill is a dogs dinner, is a car crash for leaseholders, is hopelessly vague, impractical and yet again unfairly passes the cost of past failure to leaseholders”
The opening words in our submission to the
@CommonsHCLG
scrutiny of the Building Safety Bill.
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@RoyWilsher
Congratulating yourself is perhaps a bit vain?
You might offer congratulations to all those in
@EOCS_Official
who unlike yourself have worked for no money, no reward and no OBE, dealing with the consequences of some of your expert advice, which history may well judge to be wrong
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Welcome to
@BishopStAlbans
the first Lords Bishop to join the APPG on Leasehold and Commonhold reform co Chaired by
@PBottomleyMP
@justinmadders
@libdemdaisy
@LKPleasehold
@EOCS_Official
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Well spoken
@BobBlackman
one thing has become very clear over the last 3.5 years. Those MPs who understand the issue 1) See the route forward 2) All agree on a similar route forward regardless of political party.
Bob adds convert to commonhold which is a very good idea.
"Leaseholders should not have to bear any costs with remediating unsafe cladding."
Conservative MP and Housing Select Committee member Bob Blackman calls on the government to expand their provision for the removal of dangerous cladding.
#politicslondon
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Producing a summary of the Building Safety Bill for MPs what I want to write is
A total disaster that should be thrown in the bin
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The APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform meets the
@TheFCA
tomorrow to talk about their regulation, or potential lack of regulation, on leasehold building insurance and warranty schemes
'I think we've got a huge group of consumers here that lacks protection.'
Soaring insurance, & other interim costs, are forcing leaseholders into financial ruin before any remediation has even taken place.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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Since 2017 govenment has been saying it expects building owners to pay for building defects - it has constantly said the leaseholders should not need to pay
Now govenment plans to pass a law that means leaseholders will be liable for all historic building safety faults
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@mtpennycook
@Lee4NED
Just remember Matt absolutely none of what you or any other MPs may want for housing is going to happen without resolving the toxic problems in leasehold legislation
The “too difficult broom” that failed in 2002 1996 1993 1987 1985…. 1925 is now totally broken
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We’d met many of these politicians over the last 13 years. Quite a few told
@LKPleasehold
we were wrong when they were in power.
Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong? review – the most nakedly furious documentary of the year
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@MarkKleinmanSky
In late 2018
@PBottomleyMP
and
@EdwardJDavey
and
@LKPleasehold
met the Bank of Englands PRA to ask about pension funds involved with ground rent investments. The PRA said very few pension firms involved.
Odd that anyone could suddenly claim it has grown to £30 billion.
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Why is no action being taken against these companies by the government
@BorisJohnson
Instead you plan to pass a new law that overturns lease contracts and forces leaseholders to fix the problem
This has already destroyed the housing market for flats
@EOCS_Official
@NLC_201
The companies were accused of “sinister” behaviour by allegedly seeking to “circumvent” building regulations and guidance using clever marketing. |
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@andrewellson
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Is
@RishiSunak
worse than Gordon Brown for announcing the same spending many times
Is he paying £5B to help or is he planning to make £3.6B profit after claiming back a £2B levy and VAT and taxes on all the work
@PBottomleyMP
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Yes the Olympic village is riddled with building safety issues despite what would have been the most intense regulatory oversight
Flawed regulations have driven standards down over a long period of time and now gov washes its hands of responsibility and blames others
@EOCS_Official
@CICCEO
@thetimes
Aren't there issues with cladding in the Olympic village? The article says 'Construction of arenas and the athletes’ village for the London 2012 Olympic Games was a rare highlight for the industry, and an standard-bearer for community engagement, legacy and site safety'.
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The prime minister
@BorisJohnson
should perhaps ask himself what if Dame Judith Hackitt, officials and other experts have got some things utterly wrong. It was them who caused the market to “over react”
The gov echo chamber excluded all those who said their approach wrong
I repeat my urgent recommendation to the Government: get the work done, now. Please listen to those who know and make sure that no examination takes place without leaseholders being there at the table. They could have told the SoS four years ago that his approach was not working.
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Very disappointed to hear
@team_greenhalgh
give a shout out to LEASE this afternoon. He knows they do a crap job on cladding and that cladding leaseholder groups do not like them or work with them
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There are a lot of people who should hang their heads in shame that this is still going on and I don’t just mean the landlord
Every aspect of the system has let these people down
More than 6 years post Grenfell some buildings still, suddenly, being declared severe fire risks leading to immediate evacuation. 😡
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Why have treasury and team
@RishiSunak
always refused to meet the APPG or cladding groups to understand why the position is impossible
@SimonClarkeMP
it took
@NorgesBank
less than a week to agree to meet the cladding groups and Father of the House. That's 237X quicker
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With
@mhclg
putting out a a very silly statement today saying they do not recognise the costs quoted in
@Lees_Martina
Sunday Times article something is very wrong.
Does the Department also think Dexter is also telling fibs
@BorisJohnson
“I'm always thinking about it”
Dexter is one of millions across the UK who are trapped in the
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
#WeAreTrapped
#EndOurCladdingScandal
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Great article. This is a problem that has gone on for too long. The
@CMAgovUK
investigated in 2014 and the government has yet to implement most of their recommendations
My investigation into the sky-high service charges which are financially crippling some leaseholders. Get in touch with all your service charge nightmares through f.parker
@dailymail
.co.uk
@LKPleasehold
@NLC_2019
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Why did a supposedly “impartial” government agency sabotage improved protection for leaseholder funds.
A question for
@PBottomleyMP
to ask next week
@LKPleasehold
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Ministers have announced an intention to produce a levy but it was not in the budget. At the suggested rate of £150 million a year (post corporation tax) it's a tiny burden
Q why is gov producing laws to make leasehold liable for historic defects but not suppliers
I believe more should be done. Government has announced a new tax on the residential development property sector to partly fund cladding remediation. I believe there should be a similar tax on the building products sector. (3/5)
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Cladding victims should read this article by LEASE and remember they are paid a huge amount of money, by government, to be on the side of leaseholders
Yet again they choose to whitewash over all the issues leaseholders are unhappy with about with this bill
@EOCS_Official
The government has published the Building Safety Bill - The Bill outlines significant changes to building safety regulation, and sets out a clear pathway for the future on how residential buildings should be constructed and maintained.
Read more:
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There are many issues for
@trussliz
to deal with. Hopefully officials will make clear there are a number problems that impact the 4.86+ million leasehold homes cladding/utilities/leasehold law. The government has committed to reform many times
@NLC_2019
@EOCS_Official
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Another retirement home horror story
@LKPleasehold
£11K in service charges and the sector still tells government it does a good job
People living in a retirement complex in Urmston say an increase in annual service charges to almost £11,000 is "crippling".
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@RobertJenrick
if I organise a meeting in Parliament with MPs and cladding leaseholder representatives would you attend
Maybe
@NickFerrariLBC
could come along as well
@EOCS_Official
Thanks for all the guesses on this one.
The answer is... "he's still not met homeowners".
And no,
@RobertJenrick
, that hastily convened meeting held last week doesn't count.
We'll ask again - when are you meeting us?
Why are you continuing to ignore us?
Do your job. Meet us.
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