18m+ block, remediated to EWS B1 in 2023. Now internal fire stopping & structural defects found. Never fucking ending, never buy leasehold.
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I see @andyburnham‘s ‘legislation before Christmas’ line is now ‘hopefully by the end of the year’. Tired of waiting for meaningful change on a moral issue that impacts so many. If, *if*, anything comes forward, I still won’t hold my breath that it will solve anything. Shambolic.
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
@mtpennycook you are trying your best not to upset the cartel and end up in court. Well, reality check. Without flats being part of property sales your whole housing strategy falls apart anyway - because the public are done with leasehold and want it gone. @HarryScoffin
Developer halts London project until market improves thetimes.com/article/e44d3fc…
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
There will be many more.
First it was cladding, then internal fire safety defects, now structural issues.
The more you look under the bonnet, the more you realise that much of what has been built over the last 30 years simply isn't fit for purpose.
And they wonder why the market collapsed.
Cladding
Latent defects
And, as engineers review their designs against the accepted norm of the last 25 yrs - structural issues: was the design compliant at build. If it was, is that still good enough?
I’m in this situation. A shitshow.
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
The Letby insulin convictions are a legal catastrophe. A standard NHS screening test explicitly stamped "NOT FOR FORENSIC USE" by the lab was passed off to a jury as an infallible blueprint for murder. Hiding that institutional warning subverted the entire trial framework.
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
Freeholders own just 2.5% of blocks yet claim their human rights are breached if they can’t send leaseholders into bankruptcy over spurious bills. Meanwhile leaseholders can’t sell their own homes. Time for a rebalancing, for change, for fairness @andyburnham @FreeLeasehlders
Lifelong Tory Stephen voted Labour in 2024 for its promise to end leasehold.
The Blackpool military veteran “took back control”, cutting service charges 31% with Right to Manage.
Will @andyburnham deliver universal RTM in his Bill, defying the vested interests Starmer caved to?
Do we not learn anything? Cutting red tape cost some taxpayers everything and has left millions of others trapped in buildings with ‘defects’ that were swept under the carpet in the name of progress 💚
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
This quote from the Guardian article today sums it up perfectly:
“The question for the government is whether the proposed reforms give the owners of the existing 5m leasehold homes a credible route out of their dependency – or just regulate their continued subservience.”
5m leaseholders know the answer to that question.
GR reform is 40yrs, deployed as ‘good news’. Meanwhile the BSR fails 2 hold FHldrs to account & proposed regulator will be toothless. Life threatening remediation isn’t happening, lenders r refusing remortgages & LHrs face eviction. Govt actions aren’t remotely ambitious enough.
"I have a bit of unfinished business, confronting the scandal faced by millions of leaseholders," Angela Rayner says
We are "capping and then scrapping ground rents" to put "money back in people's hands", the housing secretary adds
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#Waverley, escorted by M.T. Kent and other historic #Chatham #Medway steam tugs at #Upnor en-route to #Rochester
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
Before you lock someone up for life for using very specific methods of murder, you need solid proof that those very specific methods were indeed used. Not only is this absent in all the #lucyletby murder convictions, but non-murderous alternatives are far more plausible & likely.
How’s the unfinished business going @AngelaRayner ?
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
Goodbye to Dame Esther Rantzen.
Thanks for this all time great TV moment…
Agreed, I watch Mornings, but leasehold issues do not get anywhere near enough coverage. The most important thing now, is to question whether the upcoming bill meets manifesto commitments to ‘end’ leasehold and the law commission proposals from 2020. This is currently debatable.
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
There is SO much concern on my feed about 'My First Home'...concerns I share from experience of being trapped in Shared Ownership-another government backed scheme to "help" first time buyers & billed as "affordable".
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
This is not the way to improve the property market. If you want smaller deposit mortgages we have them already, if you want properties sold then work on getting mortgage rates cheaper, remove leasehold issues, and build a wider variety of properties.
If you don't have help from the bank of Mum and Dad, this is for you:
This government is introducing the Your First Home scheme to help more young people buy their first home with a deposit of just 2.5%.
That means less to save upfront, and lower monthly costs once you’ve got the keys.
And this help is coming soon, with pre-registration set to open by the end of the year.
ALT Graphic reads: Launching soon, first-time buyers scheme with 2.5% deposit.
Alan Buckman | @alanbuckman.bsky.social retweeted
No, it’s about taxpayers subsidising developer profits. The same developers who failed to fix thousands of defective buildings they built.
And @UKlabour is just throwing another generation under the bus.
