Petitions/Create a new body to regulate landlord and freeholder service charges
StatusClosed
Opened19 Dec 2024
Closes19 Jun 2025
Government responseResponded
Parliamentary debateNot eligible
Milestones✓ 10,000

We want the Government to create a new body that is empowered to monitor and regulate private, council, and housing association service charges, and impose meaningful penalties for unfair, inaccurate, and unreasonable service charges.

It should provide free support to people to challenge charges.

12,125Total signatures
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Government response

The Government will consult this year on measures in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 to increase service charge transparency, enabling better scrutiny and challenge of unreasonable charges.

Constituency engagement ranking

Matthew Pennycook
1Matthew Pennycook MP
Greenwich and Woolwich
321
Apsana Begum
2Apsana Begum MP
Poplar and Limehouse
269
Neil Coyle
3Neil Coyle MP
Bermondsey and Old Southwark
218
Miatta Fahnbulleh
4Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Peckham
214
David Pinto-Duschinsky
5David Pinto-Duschinsky MP
Hendon
188
Ruth Cadbury
6Ruth Cadbury MP
Brentford and Isleworth
157
Uma Kumaran
7Uma Kumaran MP
Stratford and Bow
156
Nesil Caliskan
8Nesil Caliskan MP
Barking
152
Florence Eshalomi
9Florence Eshalomi MP
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
147
Vicky Foxcroft
10Vicky Foxcroft MP
Lewisham North
141
Create a new body to regulate landlord and freeholder service charges — Petitions