No plans for government review of 2002 Act

During the debate on 7 May, Baroness Gardner, a long time advocate of commonhold, said: “It is 12 years since this law was passed and 11 sections are still listed as not in force.” These included, she added, sections that provide for the protection of tenants and leaseholders’ deposits.

Lord Faulks said: “(The Government) are concerned with not overburdening either freeholders or leaseholders with unnecessarily elaborate provisions. They are also satisfied that, for the most part, the rights of leaseholders are protected by a number of provisions, some of which were brought in by the 2002 Act, particularly in relation to service charges, enfranchisement and protecting leaseholders from landlords in certain circumstances.”