P-05-1129 Apply legislative measures now to enact the Law Commission's recommendations to abolish Leasehold

This petition was submitted by Mark Habberfield, having collected a total of 425 signatures.

Text of Petition:                     

On 21st July 2020 all three residential leasehold and commonhold reports were published by the Law Commission (see additional details). We believe the recommendations from these reports should be immediately enacted in Welsh law without delay to protect and improve the lives of nearly 400,000 Welsh leaseholders. It has been over eight years since Scotland lead the way in removing leasehold from their housing and with this report the Senedd now has a clear mandate to apply legislative measures.

Additional Information:

https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/residential-leasehold-and-commonhold/

The Law Commission published three Reports in which they recommend reforms to three areas of law:

(1.) leasehold enfranchisement, which is the right for people who own property on a long lease (“leaseholders”) to buy the freehold or extend their lease

(2.) the right to manage, which is a right for leaseholders to take over the management of their building without buying the freehold

(3.) commonhold, which allows for the freehold ownership of flats, offering an alternative way of owning property which avoids the shortcomings of leasehold ownership.

Status

This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 04/10/2021.

The Committee agreed that as a result of the approach taken by the Welsh Government on this issue, that there was little further action that the Committee could take, noting that it would be likely that there will always be some circumstances where leaseholders would need to be in place. Members agreed to thank the petitioner and close the petition.

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It was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 02/03/2021.

Senedd Constituency and Region

• Cardiff South and Penarth
• South Wales Central

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