Philip Rainey QC published a paper in January of this year that was the subject of a debate held in parliament by a cross-party group assembled by LKP/Carlex. The paper looked at some possible alternatives to residential leasehold and/ or some of the “simplest” ways of dealing with the ‘problems’ of residential leasehold – by abolishing it, or making it less common.

The paper can be found on the Tanfield Chambers website.

This paper will be the subject of a debate at the ALEP Conference on 20th October which will be chaired by Joshua Rozenberg. It will be interesting to see what delegates think about this – and to hear a discussion about the possible alternatives.