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NDM6681 - Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal

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Meeting: 14/03/2018 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 7)

Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal – Estate Management Companies

NDM6681 Hefin David (Caerphilly)

 

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

 

1. Notes a proposal for a Bill on the regulation of estate management companies.

 

2. The purpose of this Bill would be to:

 

a) give freeholders who pay charges for the maintenance of communal areas and facilities on a private or mixed-use estate equivalent rights as leaseholders to challenge the reasonableness of service charges;

 

b) ensure that, where a freeholder pays a rent charge, the rent charge owner is not able to take possession or grant a lease on the property where the rent charge remains unpaid for a short period of time; and

 

c) give freeholders in Wales equivalent rights to those in England as a result of changes to the regulation of estate management companies planned by the UK Government.

 

Supporters:

David Rees (Aberavon)

Mike Hedges (Swansea East)

Vikki Howells (Cynon Valley)

Minutes:

The item started at 15.26

Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.

NDM6681 Hefin David (Caerphilly)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes a proposal for a Bill on the regulation of estate management companies.

2. The purpose of this Bill would be to:

a) give freeholders who pay charges for the maintenance of communal areas and facilities on a private or mixed-use estate equivalent rights as leaseholders to challenge the reasonableness of service charges;

b) ensure that, where a freeholder pays a rent charge, the rent charge owner is not able to take possession or grant a lease on the property where the rent charge remains unpaid for a short period of time; and

c) give freeholders in Wales equivalent rights to those in England as a result of changes to the regulation of estate management companies planned by the UK Government.

Supporters:

David Rees (Aberavon)

Mike Hedges (Swansea East)

Vikki Howells (Cynon Valley)

The result was as follows:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

37

11

1

49

The motion was agreed.