Support For Leaseholders

EDM number 1187 in 2016-17, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 25/04/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Housing and Owner occupation.

That this House condemns the developers and sellers of houses unnecessarily marketed to first time buyers and others, especially if the ground rent provisions were onerous, and where the freeholds were sold on above the heads of leaseholders to investors who later demanded unfair, unreasonable or unjustified prices for sale of the freehold to the leaseholder, or charged fees above costs for adaptations to the home; and demands that Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Bellway, the Adriatic companies and others restore all affected leaseholders to a position of fair, affordable enjoyment of their home by assistance to own that freehold and by cancelling unaffordable ground rent terms.

This motion has been signed by a total of 4 MPs.