Submitted on Monday 6th March 2017
Rejected on Wednesday 15th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Government to regulate & cap the unrestrained rises in property Service Charges.
We bought a shared ownership property from L&Q in London in November 2013. Since then the Service Charges have risen by £60 PER MONTH, that's £720 PER YEAR in just 3 years! If any other company regulated by either Ofcom, Ofwat, Ofgem, etc, were to make similar rises there would be national uproar!
We can bring to bear a mass of evidence of three years of complaints, including meetings with Len Duvall at the GLA and our MP, Vicky Foxcroft, who are all aware of these matters. Also, read on:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/09/service-charges-soar-to-average-2777-per-year-for-new-build-flats
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/mortgages/dont-be-conned-by-excessive-service-charges-2023667.html
This widespread overinflated charging is out of control and it cannot go on unchecked!
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/169020
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