Freeholders' development rights stand in the way of leaseholder enfranchisement - and the future of commonhold - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

Freeholders' development rights stand in the way of leaseholder enfranchisement - and the future of commonhold - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

The silence over leasehold reform – from government and, indeed, from us – is due to the looming clash in the courts over the freeholders’ legal challenge to the loss of their enfranchisement income under the 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act. The judicial review is to be heard in July, but the issue will likely go on for a good deal longer. So the enfranchisement elements of the 2024 Act, which depend on secondary legislation, are essentia…