LEASEHOLD VIDEO - "HOW CAN A HEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUNCTION WITH THAT AMOUNT OF TAX AVOIDANCE"?

Myself and Sebastian O'Kelly filmed this show to highlight the magnitude of the leasehold scandal. One highlight was the rubbishing of the current ground rent review schemes by plc housebuilders and the tokenistic efforts of the ground rent funds (who are busy pretending that their anonymous investors, who may or may not be based offshore, are blameless pension funds). Katie Kendrick, of the National Leasehold Campaign, and Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, demanded that the government intervene and impose transparency on this process. The Communities Select Committee has been asked to summons the developers – primarily Taylor Wimpey – and insist that it reveal how many dodgy leases it sold to its customers and admit how many homebuyers are affected, and where. At present, Taylor Wimpey’s face-saving review is the minimum conceivable effort to address this scandal of its own making: only leaseholders who contact the company will have their leases varied. LKP insists they all be summonsed before the Select Committee and “given the Philip Green treatment”, to use Sir Peter Bottomley’s phrase. The Renegade Inc programme features a round-table interview with Katie Kendrick and Sebastian O’Kelly, and interviews with two victims of the leasehold houses scandal, Lisa Chappel and Andrea Millward. In discuss with presenter Ross Ashcroft, the murky doings of Adriatic Land were addressed – it is Katie Kendrick’s freeholder – and the involvement of William Waldorf Astor, owner of the Long Harbour fund and HomeGround (and step-brother-in-law to ex-prime minister David Cameron). We are not giving up. Leaseholders are standing up to this abusive feudal system. Enough is Enough. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/pathetic-efforts-plc-housebuilders-address-ground-rent-scandal-exposed-tv