Staffordshire Fakefreeholds & Fleecehold Campaign

@Dan4Barnet #fleecehold estates paying council tax for services not even being delivered. Councils choosing not to adopt public infrastructure and leaving it to private management companies instead, so residents get hit with extra “estate charges” on top. Absolute con. #unadoptedestates

We would also urge greater attention to the growing issue of “fleecehold” housing estates, where residents on new-build developments pay full council tax whilst also being charged “private estate management fees” for roads, paths drainage (SuDS), play parks, public open spaces and other public-facing infrastructure as part of the planning process for everyone to benefit from the development being agreed. More councils and developers have moved towards “private management/maintenance” arrangements instead of public adoption. In practice this leaves many residents paying twice for infrastructure that serves the wider public, but without the same accountability, protections or democratic oversight people would normally expect. This #fleecehold model needs to end, including retrospective action where possible. Residents should not be paying full council tax whilst also paying private estate charges for roads, drainage, parks and open spaces that were required through planning and are used by the wider public. There needs to be stronger consumer protection and proper public adoption or accountable long-term management of public infrastructure and open space. #fleecehold #fakefreeholds #PublicLandPublicGood #unadoptedestates #estatecharges #housing #planning #localgovernment #newbuilds #conditionalfreehold #StopTheRotAdoptTheLot #section106 #flooding @AndyBurnhamGM

#fleecehold estates paying council tax for services not even being delivered. Councils choosing not to adopt public infrastructure and leaving it to private management companies instead, so residents get hit with extra “estate charges” on top. Absolute con. #unadoptedestates

@Dan4Barnet #fleecehold estates paying council tax for services not even being delivered. Councils choosing not to adopt public infrastructure and leaving it to private management companies instead, so residents get hit with extra “estate charges” on top. Absolute con. #unadoptedestates

Right now some £10m homes are paying less council tax than a normal family home. It's not right and it's not fair. So this government is changing it.

@Keir_Starmer @SteveReedMP @HorNet_Group @mtpennycook @wfpevents @NALC @mhclg

Responses received after concerns were raised through NALC feedback linked to MHCLG consultations. Leigh Ingham MP & Sir Gavin Williamson MP. Both letters acknowledge concerns around publicly accessible infrastructure being left in private arrangements. #unadoptedestates

The problem with “double taxation” residents face, the lack of SuDS adoption and accountability problems on newer housing developments. This issue is bigger than party politics. #Fleecehold #FakeFreehold #UnadoptedEstates #PublicLandPublicGood #Staffordshire #conditionalfreehold

@mtpennycook @instituteforgov Really now?

The outright abolition of leasehold overnight is almost certainly impossible and we won’t pretend otherwise. But this Labour government is bringing the feudal leasehold system to an orderly end in this Parliament. My @instituteforgov keynote speech 👇🏻 gov.uk/government/spe…

@mtpennycook @JohnHealey_MP You are hellbent on offering private developers everything, you have ultimately weakened powers and it will be your demise. It’s amazing how this Labour party can really faff off so many people. To remove Local Government involvement, as you are doing, is not democratic!

This Labour government is investing £10m to upgrade forces accommodation in Woolwich as part of the Defence Housing Strategy. A real pleasure to welcome @JohnHealey_MP to Prince Imperial Road this morning to visit modernised homes for military families returning from Cyprus.

@mtpennycook @JohnHealey_MP You’re doomed! You have failed to end #fleecehold as promised … that’s freehold family homes trapped on estates under management for public infrastructure and residents are double charged! Big scandal and you are making it worse!

@SeemaMalhotra1 End #fleecehold You know the private management model on public infrastructure that keeps getting ignored. Freehold homes mis-sold as something they’re not. Tied into estate charges through deeds, paying for (SuDS), play areas and public open space that should have been adopted.

NEW: Labour is tackling the cost-of-living crisis for leaseholders Every year homeowners pay £600m to freeholders in ground rent. Labour’s Commonhold Bill: 🏠 Caps ground rents at £250 🕰️ Reduces these to a peppercorn after 40 years ❌ Ends the scandal of forfeiture

Govt minister Matthew Pennycook yesterday : "I have never once suggested we'd abolish leasehold outright" Govt minister Matthew Pennycook on the 27th Jan 2026: "This package as a whole, as I have said, will end the leasehold system in its entirety and in a single Parliament"

Any further comments on this @mtpennycook?

End #fleechold and #stoptherotadoptthelot

Student loans are a government-backed, wealth-destroying scam. Want another preying on the young? Leasehold has made the first rung of the property ladder toxic. “Buy” a flat and become a wage slave to a freeholder. Leasehold will collapse the UK property market. WATCH 👇

Life comes at you fast. Global Counsel worked for M&G, which lobbied against leasehold reform under the last government… and opposed the Labour King’s Speech over ground rent reduction. Now “money-for-nothing” ground rents are protected until 2068. ft.com/content/ad5d57…

📢💧Public drainage. Private liability. Homeowners pay for it through house prices, then pay again to maintain it, while still paying Council Tax. This is what happens when Schedule 3 is ignored and adoption is avoided. It needs fixing, including retrospectively. #fakefreeholds #fleecehold #suds #schedule3 #newbuilds #falsehope @mtpennycook @SteveReedMP @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @AngelaRayner

🚨#FakeFreehold Owned on paper. Bound by obligation. #fakefreeholds #Fleecehold #PseudoFreehold #IndenturedFreehold

Indentured Freehold A so-called freehold home where private charges and legal obligations for non-adopted public infrastructure are tied to the deed in perpetuity, with no right of refusal, no democratic control and no meaningful route to exit. Owned on paper. Bound for life. #Fleecehold #FakeFreeholds #PseudoFreehold #IndenturedFreehold

So-called freehold home where private charges and legal obligations for non-adopted public infrastructure are tied to the deed in perpetuity, no right of refusal, no democratic control and no meaningful route to exit.#Fleecehold #FakeFreeholds #PseudoFreehold #IndenturedFreehold