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  1. NorfolkGreg @[email protected] ·

    @PKYo
    That reminds me, I should be writing to various MPs about cottages like those sold off by the #Bridgewater #Canal #Company at #PrestonBrook.

    The terrace, built in the late 1700s, was sold off one house at a time in the 1950s. They all had brick built privies clustered together in a #communal #yard. Because the remaining #tenants all needed access to the yard the canal company retained ownership and provided an annual licence to each purchaser permitting access to the communal area.

    There's no #lease. No #contract on #fees to be charged. The canal company can, it seems, charge what they like both to issue a #licence to a new #buyer of a #cottage and any #annual renewal #fee.

    We ought to be able to add some appropriate clauses onto any upcoming #legislation that gives owners of #leasehold #property the #righttobuy such communal ground.

    The attached map from 1894 shows the terrace, their privies and how some don't even have space to hang out washing to dry. @ukwaterways

    #bridgewater #canal #company #prestonbrook #communal #yard
  2. Police State UK @[email protected] ·

    "Calls are mounting to pass the secondary legislation needed to enforce the #Freehold Reform Act 2024, which would ban developers from selling new houses as leaseholds, make it cheaper to extend a lease and increase the standard lease length to 990 years. The new government is also planning further reform with the introduction of the #leasehold and #commonhold reform bill."

    #UKpolitics #Housing

    theguardian.com/money/2024/oct

    #freehold #leasehold #commonhold #ukpolitics #housing
  3. AutisticMumTo3 @[email protected] ·

    Michael Gove admits housing crisis is even worse than you think | The Independent
    independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

    #Gove
    #HousingCrisis
    #Housing
    #NotEnoughBuiltForDecades
    #AcuteHousingShortage
    #Freehold
    #Leasehold
    #Immigration
    #Rwanda
    #Braverman
    #Cleverly
    #DowningStreet
    #Badenoch

    #gove #housingcrisis #housing #notenoughbuiltfordecades #acutehousingshortage #freehold
  4. enmodo ⇇ @[email protected] ·

    The UK leasehold system sounds like they tried to copy Home Owners Associations and make them worse... Of course as this article points out it pre-dates America by a long stretch.

    But I wonder how many of the freehold buildings that will replace leasehold will have as many issues as American HOAs?

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #HOAs #Leasehold #Freehold #government

    #hoas #leasehold #freehold #government