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Last year The Federation of Private Residents’ Association (FPRA) responded to the Law Reform Consultation expressing concerns over a variety of areas of leasehold law requiring urgent reform to protect private sector leaseholders in a largely unregulated property management industry.
In a letter signed by Law Commissioner, Professor Elizabeth Cooke she confirmed discussions with Government had indicated that other projects were considered to be of more pressing concern at present than the protection of long-leaseholders rights.
Bob Smytherman, Chairman - Federation of Private Residents’ Associations said: “We had hoped the Coalition would have given more consideration to the needs of around 3 million flat dwellers, including some particularly vulnerable groups, such as those in the retirement leasehold sector.”
“We believed our proposals represented a cross-section of the leasehold sector and were confident that they accurately reflected the views of leaseholders in England and Wales with many of the changes being achieved at minimal cost to government with substantial savings to every leaseholder.”