Government ‘Playing With Electoral Fire’ in Weak Leasehold Reform Bill, Says Campaign Group

Free Leaseholders said it’s been overwhelmed by the response from angry Tory-voting leaseholders who complained over the lack of ’real' reform.
Government ‘Playing With Electoral Fire’ in Weak Leasehold Reform Bill, Says Campaign Group
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove, minister for levelling up, housing and communities, during a visit to the Taylor Wimpey Heather Gardens housing development in Norwich, Norfolk, on Aug. 29, 2023. Joe Giddens/PA Wire
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The government is “playing with electoral fire” because its long-anticipated leasehold reform bill failed to include “real” reforms, a campaign group has said.

The group Free Leaseholders said Conservative leaseholders have complained that the proposals in the recently unveiled Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill “fail to give them control and autonomy over their costs and their building management that normally come with homeownership,” and that they “specifically exclude abolishing leasehold for new flats and make no mention of commonhold at all.”