Property News · September 11, 2017

Duchy of Cornwall residents fight 'unfair' freehold ban


Villagers on Prince Charles’s estate submit response to government consultation on leasehold abuses in effort to overturn banPrince Charles’s £1bn Duchy of Cornwall estate is facing a rebellion by residents who claim they are subject to an unfair ban on buying the freeholds to their homes.Residents in the historic duchy-owned village of Newton St Loe, near Bath, and in the Scilly Isles off the tip of Cornwall have urged the communities secretary, Sajid Javid, to scrap a unique ministerial undertaking that for decades has denied them the right to buy homes outright because they are part of the duchy, which provides Charles a £20m-a-year private income. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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