This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Abolish leasehold on properties
Rejected on
Leasehold is a national scandal that must stop you will never own your own home as the building itself and crucially the land on which it sits remains the property of the freeholder
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/176070
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