By Harry Scoffin Three senior peers including a former Welsh Tory leader launched a last-minute attempt last week to halt a statutory instrument they say will prevent leaseholders from buying out their landlords. On Wednesday Lord Nick Bourne, who led the Welsh Conservatives from 1999 to 2011, told housing minister Lord Greenhalgh that permitted development … Continue reading Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission