In the wake of the publication of our draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill on Tuesday, lots of existing leaseholders have been in touch seeking clarity as to when the government plans to make it cheaper and easier to extend a lease or buy a freehold 🧵 Among the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 which was passed in the dying days of the last Parliament is a new method for calculating the price of a statutory lease extension or freehold acquisition, known as the valuation process.

Four years after the Tories promised to abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, the government finally published a Renters (Reform) Bill yesterday. At first look, is it up to the mark? 🧵 Fundamental reform of the private rented sector is long overdue. Labour have urged the government for years to bring forward legislation to transform how it is regulated. We even offered last year to assist ministers pass emergency legislation to protect renters.

I’ve hesitated to say anything substantive about Johnson’s reported plan to resurrect the right to buy extension simply because it's clearly part of a desperate attempt to save his expiring premiership and almost certainly won't happen. However, worth going over the history 🧵 Having included it in the 2015 Conservative Party manifesto, the Cameron Government made a commitment to extend the right to buy to housing association tenants in the 2015 Queen’s Speech.

Today marks a year since the UK became the world’s first major economy to enshrine in law a commitment to end its territorial contribution to global heating by 2050. A thread on what’s happened since #NetZero became law and what comes next. 2050 is too late but we can still take pride in the fact we adopted a legally-binding #NetZero target. But setting a target is one thing; hitting it is quite another. Over the past 12 months, the Government has done precious little to set us on the path to carbon neutrality.