The proposal by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to allow building owners to put another couple of storeys on their blocks without planning permission is a massive windfall for freeholders and torpedoes the Law Commission’s – tepid – efforts to make enfranchisement “easy, simpler and more cost effective” for leaseholders. The initiative was talked up at … Continue reading Robert Jenrick: Why give freeholders such a whopping planning windfall over two new storeys rule, like this site in Newark?