Question follow-through · 13718
Freehold: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to (a) improve the transparency of estate charges for freeholders, (b) give freeholders the power to challenge estate charges and (c) give freeh
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 15 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to (a) improve the transparency of estate charges for freeholders, (b) give freeholders the power to challenge estate charges and (c) give freeh
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
The government is committed to taking steps to bring the injustice of ‘fleecehold’ private estates and unfair maintenance costs to an end and we will consult on the best way to achieve this.In the interim, we will act to provide residential freeholders wi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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