UK’s Commonhold Council on home ownership laws has not met ‘for over a year’

Exclusive: campaigners warn government's sweeping reform' of leasehold is slipping down agenda

An expert committee set up to advise ministers on how to change Britain's archaic home ownership laws has not met for over a year, the Guardian can reveal, as campaigners warn the issue is slipping down the government's agenda.

The Commonhold Council - a panel of 11 people from the property industry, the legal profession and academia - was convened in 2021 as ministers promised sweeping reforms to the leasehold system.