NLC Cath Williams OBE

Housing Minister, Matthew Pennycook remains committed to ending the feudal leasehold system by the end of this Parliament 👏

They remain on course to switch on LAFRA @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal

The cost of indecision: When waiting for leasehold reform becomes a liability Discover the hidden costs of delaying lease extensions in the UK. As leasehold reform stalls, leaseholders face rising premiums and marriage value risks. Act now to avoid financial pitfalls.

Reform was meant to bring clarity and fairness. Instead, it has delivered delay, uncertainty, and rising costs ⬆️

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

#LeaseholdLimbo #Trapped

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🚨4 DAYS TO GO🚨

🗣Service charge consultation closes on Friday 26th September at 23.59

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💥MP's, Journalists, Followers please repost this to ensure this important consultation profile is raised

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Annual Complaint Review 2024-25 | Housing Ombudsman Housing Ombudsman’s Annual Complaint Review shows signs of cautious optimism amid rising complaint volumes

The Housing Ombudsman has published its Annual Complaints Review for 2024-25, worthwhile reading for everyone in the sector 🏘️

www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/2025/09/23/a...

Your full guide to this week's judicial review by freeholders to torpedo reform to leasehold - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership This is how freeholders aim to torpedo our hard fought efforts to reform leasehold with human rights litigation.

💥BIG WEEK FOR LEASEHOLDERS 💥

Your full guide to this week's judicial review by freeholders to torpedo reform to leasehold.

➡️How it will be fought
➡️Why LKP was excluded from intervening

@liamspender.bsky.social #Leasehold

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Biggest issue FTB s encounter is AFTER they have moved in &realise their affordability isn't what theyd hoped
New build flats and houses often carry #leasehold & #fleecehold fees not always considered by lenders setting them up to fail financially @nlc-movement.bsky.social @eocs-official.bsky.social

Yet another FTB caught in the #leasehold trap with unregulated maintenance fees
How can Nationwide justify offering 6X income mortgages?
Affordability checks must incld fees events
@eocs-official.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social
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Warmest congratulations to Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Joanne Darbyshire who have each received OBEs for services to housing and leaseholders.

Thank you for all you've done through the National Leasehold Campaign to progress leasehold reform.

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National Leasehold Campaign founders honoured for their work - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership The three co-founders of the National Leasehold Campaign - Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Joanne Darbyshire - are to receive OBEs in the king's birthday honours.

It's a huge honour for the three of us to be on the Kings Honours List to receive an OBE for our work on Leasehold🎖🎖🎖 @jodarbyshire.bsky.social @cathnlc.bsky.social

#LeaseholdScandal #LeaseholdOBE

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Under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) and Government Remediation Contract, developers shoulder liability for the remediation of historic building safety defects.

They can also use "trickle down" claims to suppliers

❗Leaseholders should not pay❗
#leasehold

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Every post on local facebook mentioning leasehold flats puts me off going anywhere near them.

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Worcester flats evacuated over cladding fire risk Sixty people are forced to leave the building, including eight children, with some taken to a rest centre.

Mr Cusack"a fire safety inspection team had visited the building& had worked with the building management company First Port the architects& the fire engineers before the notice was issued

❗"Essentially, this is down to cladding,"❗
#leasehold
@eocs-official.bsky.social
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'I own my flat but still have to pay the council over £5K a year for repairs' Residents in Hackney Council-owned tower block Pitcairn House are paying “extortionate” service charges to live in a building with “broken…

Residents in Hackney Council-owned tower block are paying “extortionate” service charges with “broken lifts and constant leaks”

"People are feeling very desperate. My blood starts boiling,”

#LeaseholdScandal #Trapped

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#leasehold

#LeaseholdScandal

Plight of pensioner leaseholders who have seen service charges TRIPLE We have spoken to older leaseholders, including a 96-year-old who has seen her charge rise 223% since 2010 to £4,200 and another who has seen a 2,500% rise.

I'm trying not to turn the heating on': The pensioner leaseholders seeing service charges rise by up to 2,500%

'Leasehold is a grotesquely unfair system that continues to destroy people's lives until the bitter end'

#LeaseholdScandal #Trapped

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Notting Hill Genesis tenants in Wembley pay for non-existent lift Angela Tanner, who lives at Barham Park, says they are paying for a lift but the block only has stairs.

💥WE'VE BEEN PAYING FOR A LIFT THAT DOES NOT EXIST💥 @NHGhousing

It's a scandal on par with the Post Office scandal
#LeaseholdScandal

"I'm physically and mentally drained"

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

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Leasehold is a blank cheque. It's a nightmare
#LeaseholdScandal

Gateshead leaseholders 'in limbo' over 18-year freehold wait Residents of Staiths South Bank estate say they are trapped in a complex, long-running saga.

Gateshead Leaseholders 'in limbo' over 18-year freehold wait.

Taylor Wimpey says it entered into an agreement in 2006 to transfer them to a company called Regisport.

THESE AGREEMENTS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL

#LeaseholdScandal #Trapped

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#LeaseholdScandal

Parliamentlive.tv Westminster Hall

💢 LEASEHOLD DEBATE 💢
Thank you Ruth Cadbury MP for raising this ongoing issue and for recognising our hard work representing leaseholders over the past 8 years.
Listen from 11:00 am
#leaseholdscandal
#buildingsafety
#servicecharges
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Unfortunately many leaseholders will still not be able to afford to buy their freehold or extend their lease because they have delayed switching on of the valuation element of LAFRA.

Those leaseholders that do buy now will be exploited & ripped off in the process.
#LeaseholdScandal

Leaseholder wins hundreds from the council for items she was wrongly billed for as part of her service charge A Bermondsey homeowner was incorrectly charged hundreds of pounds for lights in a random car park and maintenance to non-existent

Leaseholder wins hundreds from the council for items she was wrongly billed for as part of her service charge

The Bermondsey resident was incorrectly charged for lights in a random car park and maintenance to non-existent grounds

#LeaseholdScandal

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WHERE LEASEHOLDER'S HAVE A VOICE National Leasehold Campaign (NLC). Join us ....

Hi Lewis - National Leasehold Campaign co-founder here. We have over 32K members with large proportion from North East that was targeted by developers back in 2007.
My guess is your constituency is also affected- happy to explain more if you need.
#leaseholdscandal
www.nationalleaseholdcampaign.org