Rawdon Crozier attended reception on the terrace at Parliament on 9 October, hosted by the new Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Leasehold, Mike Amesbury MP, to celebrate the achievement of the leasehold reforms – to date – and to pay tribute to the outstanding contribution of Sir Peter Bottomley. Pictured are Sir Peter and Katie Kendrick of the National Leasehold Campaign and Rawdon with Diane Latter of the Law Society and Sue Phillips of Shared Ownership Resources. Sir Peter, who remains patron of the leaseholder charity, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership and an active campaigner for leasehold reform, was in ebullient form having secured - and played a personal role in saving - the passage of significant leasehold legislation in the form of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024in the last days of the previous Government. Sir Peter, as Father of the House, the most senior serving MP, prior to the Election, had taken the opportunity of being alone with the former Prime Minister and the then-Leader of the Opposition to get them to agree to restore the Act to the pre-election dissolution programme. Paying tribute to Sir Peter, Mike Amesbury acknowledged the challenges faced by the APPG, which, before to the Election had been the largest All-Party Parliamentary Group with over 200 MP members and which would now, with the influx of new MPs, have to be re-built. Among the many present at the event, were Professor Nicholas Hopkins, Law Commissioner for property, family and trust law, Martin Boyd, Chair of the Leasehold Advisory Service and Sebastian O'Kelly, CEO of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership.
