Oral Answers to Questions

Emma Foody Excerpts

Monday 9th June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Angela Rayner]

I might like a pint; and wouldn’t he like to know?

[Emma Foody (Cramlington and Killingworth) (Lab/Co-op)]

People have lived in Earsdon View in my constituency for more than 15 years, but the estate remains unadopted due to an ongoing issue between the landowner, Northumberland Estates, and the developer, Bellway, involving the securing of sewer adoption. I continue to press all parties to resolve the problem, but how can we ensure that people are not left in this situation for decades, often paying management fees on top of council tax, and that developers deliver?

[Matthew Pennycook]

My hon. Friend has been a doughty champion of leaseholders and residential freeholders in her constituency. We must start to provide the consumer protections that are already on the statute book, but as I have made clear, we are determined to end the injustice of fleecehold entirely, and will consult later this year on legislative and policy options to reduce the prevalence of private estate management arrangements.