Phyll Buchanan

Burns and the Gaelic language Exploring the connections between Burns and our Gaelic language

File this under "things I didn't know about Robert Burns". A brilliant read!

YES. This is leadership 👏👏👏

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Bottom feeders (although they identify as professional freeholders) assemble at the High Court today for a 2 day permission hearing to decide whether they can proceed with a judicial review challenging the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act.

“Tri Fire have made no response to my attempts to contact them and the IFE are providing no support. It is a scandal.”
#UKhousing #UKFS #FireSafety #HRRB

Mental Health Impact Survey Commissioned by the National Leasehold Campaign

If you are a leaseholder who lives in England or Wales, and your mental health and wellbeing has been impacted by your leasehold situation, please fill out this anonymous survey

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Public Accounts Committee Inquiry: The Remediation of Dangerous Cladding - End Our Cladding Scandal The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has opened an inquiry into the remediation of dangerous cladding. As part of this Inquiry, you are invited to submit evidence for the Committee to consider.

📢 The Public Accounts Committee has opened an inquiry into the remediation of dangerous cladding.

It's critical that leaseholders send written evidence to the inquiry. Do not rely on others.

We've prepared a short guide 👇

❗ DEADLINE is 20 January

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Join the Leasehold & Commonhold community by pinning this at the top.

#LeaseholdersTogether

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14:20pm LIVE interview with Angela Raynor re the work of MHCLG
Will she confirm that LAFRA2024/Building Safety is still high on government agenda?
#leasehold
Click this link to find out
www.youtube.com/live/8OoK4MM...

Office-to-homes conversions: London blocks hold fresh allure since shift to home-working Interest has surged since relaxation of planning rules last March, but technical difficulties often loom large

Conversions of offices to housing have created a significant proportion of all new homes in recent years - and are likely to make up a good proportion of the government's 1.5m new homes target.
Good article here about some of the challenges in doing it well. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🚫HAVE YOU HAD A MORTGAGE APPLICATION REFUSED DUE TO LEASE/TP1 TERMS?
🚫HAVE YOU LOST A SALE BECAUSE YOUR BUYER HAD A MORTGAGE APPLICATION REFUSED?
NLC would like to know more
Please complete this short anonymous survey🙏
#leasehold
@nlc-movement.bsky.social
www.surveymonkey.com/r/KPZKFGR

Not local, but worth reading;

“By allowing public local transport services in E Lancs&N Yorks to deteriorate to well below Victorian levels, you not only deny [children] opportunity, but you fuel outmigration[…]to the overheated SE, leaving those declining towns of the North in yet further decline”

NLC LEASEHOLD MORTGAGE SURVEY EXTENDED NLC MORTGAGE SURVEY EXTENDED If you have had or are having issues trying to sell or get a mortgage please complete the NLC short survey. It's important we capture this information. ENDING 7TH JANUARY 2025. Click on the article below for full details.

NLC LEASEHOLD MORTGAGE SURVEY EXTENDED

NLC MORTGAGE SURVEY EXTENDED If you have had or are having issues trying to sell or get a mortgage please complete the NLC short survey. It's important we capture this information. ENDING 7TH JANUARY 2025. Click on the article below for full details.

All leaseholders want this Xmas is the LFRA turning on💡

If #NLCElves were in charge, the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act would be switched on this Xmas.

Instead, another year of being TRAPPED, EXPLOITED AND BULLIED 😡

#LeaseholdScandal #NLCElf #Leasehold #HousingCrisis @lkpleasehold.bsky.social

I've created a Bluesky feed for building safety / cladding / leasehold issues. This is my first feed using hashtags, so hopefully it works.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal #Grenfell #FreeLeaseholders

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@eocs-official.bsky.social @ritustweets.bsky.social

In our submission @salawatson.bsky.social and I highlight:

high quality infrastructure, better data, the need for Active Travel England to access expertise around children & YP, non-school journeys, access to play & leisure, play streets, teenagers, 'decide and provide'
tinyurl.com/appgcwwatson...

Firm agree.

Oh, and that responsibility for ensuring children and young people are safe - and have full access to the benefits of active travel - should lie with adult politicians, drivers, policy makers and traffic engineers, not with the children themselves.

MORTGAGE SURVEY – NLC WANT TO HEAR YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH LENDERS | NATIONAL LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGN (NLC) NLC Mortgage Lenders Survey We have noticed an increase in the number of NLC members and their families reporting property sales are falling through due to issues with their leases. Also being refused...

🛑FINAL FEW DAYS TO COMPLETE THIS SURVEY!!!🛑

🚫HAVE YOU HAD A MORTGAGE APPLICATION REFUSED DUE TO LEASE/TP1 TERMS?
🚫HAVE YOU LOST A SALE BECAUSE YOUR BUYER HAD A MORTGAGE APPLICATION REFUSED?
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Please complete this short anonymous survey
www.nationalleaseholdcampaign.org/mortgage-sur...

NLC Elf exchanging gifts 🎁 🎁

"This gift is for you, but that house belongs to the FreeLoader"

#NLCElf #Trapped #Housing #LeaseholdScandal #Leasehold National Leasehold Campaign ( NLC

Newcastle leaseholders dispute £200,000 maintenance bill for Kenton flats Residents at Park View Court in Kenton say RMG Management has not maintained their flats properly.

DO NOT BUY #leasehold, ideally ever but if you must, get INDEPENDENT, QUALIFIED legal and building survey advice.
Yes, they do cost but boy will you be a cash cow to 'reputable' freeholders, if you don't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Newcastle leaseholders dispute £200,000 maintenance bill for Kenton flats Residents at Park View Court in Kenton say RMG Management has not maintained their flats properly.

Managing agents must be magicians - they can make funds disappear 🪄
#leasehold

"Now they're saying, because the place looks tired, they want to charge us £200,000 to do necessary repairs.

"But we've been paying maintenance since 2002. Where's this money gone?"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✨️The National Leasehold Campaign (NLC) has galvanised leaseholders nationally to stand up & speak out about the many abuses of Leasehold ✨️

☃️JOIN THE NLC - Not just for Christmas☃️

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#NLCElf #LeaseholdScandal #Trapped #LeaseholdersTogether #PeoplePower #Leasehold

Follow us to see what #NLCElf will be getting up to

The #NLCElf has arrived to offer some help with the campaign over the festive period 🎅🧑‍🎄

🎄DON'T BE ELFISH - RELEASE US🎄

#LeaseholdElf #NLC #Trapped #LeaseholdScandal #Leasehold

Looks like Home Group have gone too.

Spot on. Comprehensive pedestrianisation should be far higher up the agenda in our cities than it is. Nearly wherever cars go, cities get worse. Nearly wherever they’re removed, those urban spaces flourish.

Why do we have leasehold properties and service charges? The number of leasehold dwellings has increased by 100,000 a year, figures show.

On the back of this BBC technically sort of accurate but not practically helpful article on leasehold, let me give some actual practical advice on disputing service charges.

A quick guide to challenging leasehold service charges and not stuffing it up.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Overdue reform to feudal leasehold laws good example of why everything takes so long to get done: consultation paralysis. The new legislation may be needed-but holding another consultation *next* summer? Too much consultation (which protects vested interests) one of the big problems with our system.

Leasehold groups pen open letter to government - Property Industry Eye Leasehold groups pen open letter to government - Breaking news for estate agents and the residential property industry. Independent, unbiased, and factual reporting. A forum for discussion and debate ...

NLC welcomes the government’s statement of 21st November. Our main concern now is the fate of existing leaseholders who are currently suffering at the mercy of unregulated managing agents and unscrupulous freeholders.
Many face bankruptcy.
#leasehold

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They are ending leasehold that's what the ministerial statement confirmed yesterday. #GetCommonholdDone

The True Cost of Leasehold People living in leasehold homes are calling for an end to a system they say is broken. Hayley Hassall investigates the impact of huge service charges on people in the north west.

The Coverage today by the BBC on everything Leasehold has been incredible not just on TV but radio coverage too.

More to come ......

##LeaseholdScandal #BBCDayOfAction #Leasehold #Trapped

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