HL Deb 26 October 1992 vol 539 cc94-8WA
Lord Coleraine

asked Her Majesty's Government:

With regard to their proposal to introduce legislation to enable flat owners to buy the freeholds in certain circumstances, whether they will publish lists of those consulted between publication of the consultation document on Commonhold and the pamphlet Enfranchisement of Long Leasehold Flats in March 1992; listing separately those organisations representing flat-owners and those representing landlords; and what representations were received as to the price which should be paid by flatowners for their flats on enfranchisement.

Lord Strathclyde

I have placed lists of consultees in the Library.

There were representations about valuation from individual flatowners, flatowners' groups, individual landlords and landlords' groups. Landlords generally argued that they should receive a sum greater than the proposals would give. They want the entire marriage value created by the bringing together of the landlords' and participating tenants' interests. Flatowners on the other hand generally argued that they should pay less than required by the proposals.

They want to pay simply for the landlords' interest as a third party purchaser, without an element of the marriage value.

RESPONSES TO COMMONHOLD CONSULTATION DOCUMENT (OFFICIAL. CONSULTATION)

Representing Landlords

  • Newstone and Co.
  • Brecher and Co.
  • Plumridge and Howell
  • Magdalen College, Oxford
  • National Housing's Town Planning Council
  • Newcastle Building Society
  • Goddard and Smith
  • Liberal Democrats
  • Bedford Estates
  • Cluttons
  • Howard De Walden Estates
  • Sloane Stanley Estate
  • College of Estate Management
  • Eyre Estate
  • Committee of London and Scottish Bankers
  • British Property Federation
  • Law Society
  • Anglian Water Services
  • National Trust
  • SHAC
  • Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
  • Lee Bolton and Lee
  • Bircham and Co.
  • Alleyn's College
  • Jones Lang Wootton
  • Landowners Group
  • Grosvenor Estate
  • Nabarro Nathaison
  • British Legal Association
  • National Association of Estate Agents
  • Building Societies Association
  • Bristol Law Society
  • Hanover
  • May May and Merrimans
  • Denton Hall
  • Holborn Law Society
  • McCarthy and Stone
  • Brighton Poly
  • Daniel Smith/Eyre Estates
  • Charles Russell
  • Cadogan Estate
  • British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association
  • Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers
  • Charity Commissioners
  • Dennis Reed and Co.
  • County Landowners Association
  • Farver and Co.
  • English Heritage
  • Institute of Housing
  • Crown Estate
  • Holborn Law Society
  • Judges and Co.
  • Association of British Insurers
  • Baileys Shaw and Gillett
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants
  • Church Commissioners
  • Portman Family Settled Estates
    • WA96
  • Lee and Pembertons
  • Nationwide Anglia
  • Linklaters and Partners
  • Association of Landowning Charities
  • NCC
  • National Federation of Housing Associations
  • The Housing Corporation
  • Diocese of Salisbury
  • Property Advisory Group

Representing Flatowners

  • Commonhold Flats Campaign
  • Consumers' Association
  • Age Concern

Others

  • Institute of Rent Officers

RESPONSES TO ENFRANCHISEMENT LEAFLET PUBLISHED IN JULY 1991 (INFORMAL CONSULTATION)

Representing Landlords

  • Port Hall Property Management Ltd.
  • London Borough of Lambeth
  • RCG Financial Services Ltd.
  • The Tudors Management Ltd.
  • Calthorpe Gardens Property Management Co. Ltd.
  • Druce Management
  • Jones Lang Wootton Chartered Surveyors
  • Leigh, Gold and Co. Solicitors
  • Smith's Charity and various individuals

Representing Flatowners

  • Lynton Lodge Residents' Association
  • The Lodge Residents and Tenants' Association
  • Claremont Residents' Association
  • London Rent Assessment Panel
  • Rectory Court Residents' Association
  • Ridgemont Close Residents' Association
  • Medway Street Residents' Association
  • Daska House Lessees Association
  • Hudson and Briary Close Residents' Association
  • Crouchmans Close Residents' Association
  • Shortdean Place Residents' Association
  • Consumers Association
  • Longfield Residents' Association
  • Kensington Hall Residents' Association and various individuals

RESPONSES TO ENFRANCHISEMENT BOOKLET PUBLISHED IN MARCH 1992 (INFORMAL CONSULTATION)

Representing Landlords

  • The Eyre Estate
  • Cadogan Estate
  • Daniel Smith Chartered Surveyors
  • Howard De Walden Estates Ltd.
  • County Landowners Association
  • Thurloe, Alexander and Campbell Estates and various individuals

Representing Flatowners

  • Consumers' Association
    • WA97
  • Queens Club Residents' Association
  • Devon and Conway Rent Assessment Panel and various individuals

The following also responded to the leaflet or the booklet or both

Representing Landlords

  • Savills
  • Grosvenor Estate
  • Association of Retirement Housing Managers
  • Landowners Group

Representing Flatowners

  • The Enfranchisement League
  • Leasehold Reform Co-ordinating Committee
  • Commonhold Flats Campaign
  • Leasehold Enfranchisement Association
  • Federation of Private Residents' Associations
  • Maida Vale Association
  • Equity in Home Ownership

Other Groups

  • Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers
  • Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
  • Committee of London and Scottish Bankers
  • Building Societies Association
  • Law Society
  • British Property Federation
  • House Builders Federation
  • Association of District Councils
  • Department of Trade and Industry
  • Cluttons
  • Institute of Housing
  • Drivers Jonas Chartered Surveyors
  • National Consumer Council
  • National Association of Estate Agents
  • Council of Mortgage Lenders
  • Department of National Heritage
  • Housing Corporation
  • National Federation of Housing Associations
  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • London Boroughs Association
  • Association of London Authorities
  • Association of County Councils
  • Westminster City Council