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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I hope to clarify that issue for my hon. Friend in the next few minutes. If I am unable to do so, I will write to him. New clause 7 seeks to go a step further in blocking the…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)We are certainly happy to write to the hon. Member to articulate the position in more detail and to seek to reassure him on some of the points that he has made. Amendment 29…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)New clause 7 is a key amendment to close a loophole that landlords could potentially use to recoup process costs from tenants via variable service charges. These are costs to…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I welcome the support from the Opposition. As the hon. Gentleman also indicates, these are sensible approaches to take. He is right to highlight his very valid point about…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 29, in clause 12, page 15, line 6, at end insert— “(8) See also sections 20CA and 20J of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, which prevent costs in…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. There is always a case for reform in all areas of public policy. I recognise the importance of getting it right on shared…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)Amendment 60 disapplies the standard valuation method in cases where the freehold of a shared ownership house is being acquired. In general, shared ownership properties are…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. I accept the point that we need to get as much of that information to members of the Committee, the House and the public as…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I look forward to hearing colleagues’ comments in due course. Amendment 44 agreed to. Clause 21, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill. Ordered, That further consideration…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI will certainly take that point away, but I hope the right hon. Gentleman will accept that there always a balance about what to put in primary legislation. The law cannot mandate…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)The ground rent buy-out right was recommended by the Law Commission and enables leaseholders to buy out their ground rent without extending their lease. As the buy-out is subject…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkMy right hon. Friend highlights a continuing challenge with the local plan-making process where other actors have issues and considerations. The planning system will never be…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 44, in clause 21, page 38, line 16, leave out “a peppercorn rent is payable” and substitute “the whole or part of the rent payable becomes and will remain…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 20 preserves the right of leaseholders to acquire the freehold of a house using the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 as it existed prior to amendment by the Bill. This will be…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 19 brings schedule 6 into effect, including a series of amendments that follow on from the introduction of 990-year lease extensions and statutory break rights where…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 60, in schedule 2, page 90, line 28, at end insert— “Acquisition of a freehold house under the LRA 1967: shared ownership leases 10A (1) This paragraph…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI am absolutely certain that there will be more cases for exceptional circumstances put forward in the future, and I encourage councils to consider them if they believe that they…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her comments. Many colleagues in the House will have experienced solar farms, both on a constituency basis and from a national policy…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria Miller) for securing the debate and for the excellent speech she just delivered on behalf of her constituents.…23 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Sixth sitting)It is as if we have all the emotions in an all-encompassing and unexpectedly interesting post-lunch debate. Let me try to summarise as quickly as I can. I am grateful for…23 Jan 2024