Councillor gives guarded welcome to leasehold ‘ban’

A Southport councillor is given her ‘guarded welcome’ has been given to a government’s announcement that it is to ban new leasehold homes.

The government is pushing ahead with axing leaseholds for all new houses, which would in the future be sold as freehold unless in ‘exceptional circumstances’.

Cambridge Ward Councillor Pat Keith, who has been campaigning against leasehold properties, has flagged up concerns that the plan may get bogged down in the ‘Brexit parliamentary saga’.

She said “My big worry is that we’re going to see another long delay not only because that’s the norm in Parliamentary business but also because the Brexit saga is dominating everything that happens at Westminster.

“I worry too for the people who are already living in leasehold homes and caught up in this scandal which is a ludicrous hangover from the Middle Ages.”