by Kamal | Sep 7, 2026 | Property
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog / Source link
by Kamal | Sep 7, 2026 | Property
It is a Wednesday afternoon at Stratford housing court, and every seat in the waiting room is full. Over the next few hours, a conveyor belt of tenants and lawyers file into the courtroom to discuss their housing disputes – up to 29 cases are dealt with in a single...
by Kamal | Sep 7, 2026 | Property
Low property prices and a country that’s easy to invest in are just some of the reasons Singapore residents might want to invest in UK property. Here’s some advice on how Singaporeans can invest in UK property, and how it is different to Singapore.Article...
by Kamal | Sep 7, 2026 | Property
When buying or selling a house it is usual to have a solicitor or conveyancer to handle the conveyancing process for you. However, it is possible to do your conveyancing yourself. Here we will look at what you need to know about doing DIY conveyancing.Article updated:...
by Kamal | Sep 7, 2026 | Property
Selling a house or a flat ought to be easy. But if you have a house or a flat with a short lease then selling it could be very difficult… or even totally impossible. If you have short lease problems here’s what you need to know about short leases, and a way to...
by Kamal | Sep 7, 2026 | Property
The UK has become an attractive place for Hong Kong residents to invest in property in recent years. Here’s some advice on how Hong Kongers can invest in UK property, and how it is different to Hong Kong.Article updated: September 2026ContentsCan Hong Kong...
by Kamal | Sep 6, 2026 | Property
Polly Toynbee’s article about the proposed new town in Enfield mischaracterises local opposition and overlooks more practical options (Nimbys can’t stand in the way of Labour’s legacy: a 21st-century new town boom, 1 September). Objecting to the town is a rejection of...
by Kamal | Sep 4, 2026 | Property
Welcome to our first Newsround for September where we find no shortage of housing news this week. Landlords’ request for a guarantor increases An interesting report claims that more than half of all landlords are now requesting a guarantor if the tenants’...
by Kamal | Sep 3, 2026 | Property
UK house prices rose for the first time in four months in August, while mortgage approvals fell to their lowest level in more than two years amid increasingly difficult conditions for first-time buyers.The boss of Britain’s largest housebuilder recently described it...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
Hope, Raye told a crowd at Reading festival on Saturday, was the theme of a set inspired by her second album. Having established through a show of hands that most of the audience had just done their GCSEs, and after recounting her own rocky road to stardom, the...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
It’s easy to dream about trading city living in for a quieter life. Whether it’s the fresh air, more space, or the blissful silence that you can only get when living miles from anywhere, the idea of moving to remote, scenic locations has obvious appeal. There’s...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
Here are all our posts for August. Saturday 1st August Landlord Law Blog Roundup for July All our blog posts for July Monday 3rd August Tenants! The Renters’ Guide is live again and updated for the Renters’ Rights Act Visit my Renters Guide via new new and updated...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
New towns will again be a lasting Labour legacy, just as in the eras of Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson. Those monuments to optimism, created in the mid-20th century by pulling down slums and building better, will be joined by seven more in an attempt to ease the...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
Vacant possession means the property is handed over empty on the day the sale completes. Empty of people, empty of belongings, and with nothing legally standing between the buyer and the front door. The courts break that into three tests: the property must be free of...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
A property bond is a loan. An investor lends money to a property company, usually a developer, for a fixed term at a fixed rate of interest. The loan is normally secured by a legal charge over a property or a site, and the capital is due back when the bond matures....
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
A Section 48 notice is the written notice a landlord gives a tenant setting out an address in England and Wales where the tenant can serve notices, including court papers, on the landlord. It comes from the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, and you will see it shortened...
by Kamal | Sep 1, 2026 | Property
If your home sits in the wrong Council Tax band, you are paying the wrong bill. Two questions settle it: is your band right, and if it is not, how do you get it changed? This guide answers both, for England, Wales and Scotland. Challenging is free and you can do it...
by Kamal | Aug 31, 2026 | Property
If the headlines are to be believed, no one should want to be a student in England any more. And yet this September and October, a record number of school leavers will begin their journey at university, unwilling to let rising costs, a regressive loan system and...
by Kamal | Aug 31, 2026 | Property
Will the UK ever rejoin the EU? Who is funding Andy Burnham? And will the bedroom tax be scrapped? In a special episode, Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker answer some of your questionsPlease keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran at...
by Kamal | Aug 30, 2026 | Property
Our first child was born in Singapore, 30 years ago, through no fault of their own. As UK citizens, we briefly lived there, came back to the UK, had two more children and have lived here ever since. Yet Reform UK would make it harder for our first child to get social...
by Kamal | Aug 30, 2026 | Property
If you are considering buying a tenement or investing in a tenement then you need to know exactly what a tenement is. Here’s a guide to what is a tenement and what you need to know when buying one.Article updated: August 2026ContentsWhat Exactly is a Tenement?Is...
by Kamal | Aug 28, 2026 | Property
Welcome to our last Newsround for August. Let’s see what has been in the news this week. Increase in guarantor demand Since the start of the Renters Right Act which bans landlords taking rent in advance there has been a gradual increase in tenants being asked to...
by Kamal | Aug 28, 2026 | Property
Estate agent fees can amount to many thousands of pounds, and their contracts can be complicated and difficult to understand. Here we’ll look at how much estate agent fees are likely to be, and at what you need to know about estate agent contracts.Article...
by Kamal | Aug 28, 2026 | Property
There are very few positives which can be written about the First World War. However, the loss of life in the conflict, across all social classes caused a great social change in the following decades and had a marked effect on housing in Britain.Article updated:...
by Kamal | Aug 28, 2026 | Property
Due to rising house prices and new construction technologies, there is currently a lot of interest in modular homes. Here we will look at what they are and examine the advantages and disadvantages of this type of design.Article updated: August 2026ContentsWhat Exactly...
by Kamal | Aug 28, 2026 | Property
Asbestos cement, a once-popular building material, lurks in many homes across the UK, a silent reminder of a time when its durability and resistance were prized above all else. Yet today, we know that the asbestos in this cement can pose serious health risks if...
by Kamal | Aug 28, 2026 | Property
There’s a lot of confusion about what squatter’s rights are in the UK. It’s sometimes thought that squatter’s have a right to occupy your property under squatter’s rights. While that’s not entirely true there are some circumstances...
by Kamal | Aug 27, 2026 | Property
While it used to be an inner-city area of workshops and warehouses the Baltic Triangle is now Liverpool’s liveliest and best place for culture, a social centre, a growing creative and digital hub, a great place for food and drink and a sought after city-living,...
by Kamal | Aug 26, 2026 | Property
Ben Marcin’s stunning photographs show lone houses, derelict homes and makeshift camps that stand as epitaphs to past lives and offer insight into how Americans on the margins live Continue reading… Source link
by Kamal | Aug 26, 2026 | Property
Sarah Williams vividly remembers the night in 2016 when she camped overnight in a car park to put down a deposit on a flat in the newly completed Spectrum Building in Dagenham, east London.“People started queuing for those flats 24 hours before they went on sale,” she...
by Kamal | Aug 25, 2026 | Property
Key eventsGovernment lays out housing plans but Burnham backtracks on social renting pledgeGood morning and welcome to the UK politics live blog.The government has set out its plans to spend an initial £10bn on a mix of subsidised housing in England, with a target of...
by Kamal | Aug 24, 2026 | Property
Andy Burnham has backtracked on his proposal to rip up the government’s housing plans and boost social home building.Ministers laid out plans on Monday to spend an initial £10bn from the 10-year Affordable Homes Programme on a mix of subsidised housing types in...
by Kamal | Aug 24, 2026 | Property
Social housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform UK government, the party has announced.Lee Anderson, the party’s chair, said that if Reform came to power it would insist that those in social rented homes would...
by Kamal | Aug 24, 2026 | Property
Your editorial on London’s social housing (16 August) makes a persuasive case for treating social housing as economic infrastructure. However, infrastructure is normally monitored and social housing is not, either when it is delivered or across the years in which it...
by Kamal | Aug 23, 2026 | Property
British citizens who were born abroad would be made to wait longer for social housing under proposals to be announced by Reform UK on Monday.Nigel Farage’s party will announce the policy at a press conference in London. Under the policy, people born in the UK and...
by Kamal | Aug 23, 2026 | Property
As a vulnerable teenage girl carrying my life in a rucksack, I have been the person Andy Burnham describes people walking past in his article (I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise, 19 August). That experience taught me that...
by Kamal | Aug 23, 2026 | Property
At 3.30am, Vello Senkel awoke to a knock on his door. Standing on his doorstep were his neighbours with an urgent request: “Do you have salt? We want to boil macaroni.” He acquiesced, but it turned out that salt wasn’t the only ingredient they were missing: “And do...
by Kamal | Aug 23, 2026 | Property
Andy Burnham is expected to give mayors new powers to take control of local planning decisions and greenlight large-scale developments in proposals to be presented next week.The move would allow mayors to “call in” the decisions and direct councils to take them...
by Kamal | Aug 21, 2026 | Property
Introducing the new Landlord Law Daily Tips service » The Landlord Law Blog / Source link
by Kamal | Aug 21, 2026 | Property
Weekly news and a little bit more with Landlord Law Newsround this week. Let’s see what has caught the teams’ eye. Council consults on tougher and higher fines Bath and North East Somerset council has started a consultation which will run until 23rd September to...
by Kamal | Aug 21, 2026 | Property
Thursday was another busy day for Alan Hickman, a Bournemouth-based locksmith who works in the area around the New Forest (“though I’m currently dodging the bit between Ringwood and Eastleigh because that’s closed because of the forest fires”).Speaking on his way to...
by Kamal | Aug 20, 2026 | Property
In 2024, Constance Soule got a surprise from her landlord: a “notice of termination” that gave her 10 days to move out of her apartment.Soule, a disabled Alzheimer’s patient with a housing voucher, had paid her rent at a Larkspur, California complex managed by...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
An inquest into the death of a five-year-old boy who fell from a 15th-floor window has heard that more measures could have been taken to make it safer.Aalim Ahmed, who was autistic, died when he fell from a kitchen window at a residential block in Plaistow, east...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
Andy Burnham has said government money alone may not be enough to get rough sleepers off the streets by Christmas, as experts called for more of a plan to deal with the problems that cause homelessness.Speaking on a visit to the north-east of England, the prime...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
As Andy Burnham set out his plan to end rough sleeping on Tuesday night, volunteers from homelessness charity Under One Sky were offering hot drinks, sandwiches, socks, underwear and soap to dozens of rough sleepers around Tottenham Court Road in central London.Among...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
The prime minister has announced a £442m plan to get rough sleepers off the streets by Christmas. It solidifies tackling homelessness as a central policy for Andy Burnham’s government, and gives voters a measure by which to judge his success – although without a...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
Burnham announces drive to get thousands of rough sleepers off streets for ChristmasHello and welcome to the UK politics live blog.Andy Burnham has pledged to work to “get everyone in for Christmas” as he continues to build on his policy to end rough sleeping.Arguing...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
It’s difficult to imagine living in the same sort of building as you went to school. But old school buildings make a great place to live. They have a lot going for them, with high ceilings, huge windows and bags of character being just the start. We’ve been through...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
Brick Lane is one of the most vibrant and best-known streets in London. Famous for its curry houses and 24-hour bagel shops, it also has provided a home to migrant communities for decades.For years it has been threatened by gentrification, now campaigners say Brick...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
An unmortgageable property is one that mainstream lenders will not lend against on their standard terms. A mortgageable property is the opposite: one a typical lender will accept as security for an ordinary mortgage without special conditions. “Non-mortgageable...
by Kamal | Aug 19, 2026 | Property
England is getting a national landlord register. It is called the Private Rented Sector Database, it was created by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, and every landlord of an assured or regulated tenancy in England will have to register on it, along with each...
by Kamal | Aug 18, 2026 | Property
Andy Burnham has urged local leaders to offer all rough sleepers in England a route off the streets by Christmas, as he pledges another £100m to end street homelessness.Arguing in the Guardian that rough sleeping has become so common it now “feels like part of the...
by Kamal | Aug 18, 2026 | Property
I’ve always thought you can tell something about a country by what it learns to walk past. And, somewhere along the way, we’ve got used to seeing people sleeping rough on our streets.We see people bedded down in doorways and sat outside stations, carrying their lives...
by Kamal | Aug 18, 2026 | Property
The company behind Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding gave more compensation to its shareholders than to victims of the disaster, an investigation has found.Arconic, which made and sold the cladding panels found to be the “primary cause” of the rapid spread of the...
by Kamal | Aug 17, 2026 | Property
The hidden Rent Act problem with the Decent Homes Standard » The Landlord Law Blog / Source link
by Kamal | Aug 17, 2026 | Property
Ministers have dropped plans to relax affordable housing rules for developers in England after a backlash from housing experts who warned it could drastically cut the number of cheaper homes available in rural areas.The government said on Monday it would not go ahead...
by Kamal | Aug 17, 2026 | Property
Thousands more homes could be built within 10 minutes of transport hubs, including on green belt sites, under a loosening of planning policy announced by Angela Rayner on Monday.The housing secretary will set out changes to national planning guidance for England that...
by Kamal | Aug 16, 2026 | Property
London’s city centre has long been a place where rich and poor live side by side, while so many other metropolitan equivalents – Paris, New York, San Francisco – remain the preserve of the rich. It maintains its mix today: in many inner London boroughs, between 20%...
by Kamal | Aug 16, 2026 | Property
How Should Landlords Respond to AI-Generated Tenant Complaints? » The Landlord Law Blog / Source link
by Kamal | Aug 16, 2026 | Property
All pubs will get protection from being turned into housing or offices under a shake-up of planning laws in England to be presented by Angela Rayner this week.The housing secretary will publish a new national planning policy framework aimed at loosening planning laws...
by Kamal | Aug 16, 2026 | Property
King Charles and Prince William could be forced to spend up to £10m upgrading hundreds of rental properties on their private estates to meet planned energy-efficiency rules.The government has announced that landlords will need to ensure their properties have energy...
by Kamal | Aug 16, 2026 | Property
This year’s fringe variously puts Hamlet in the Big Brother house with Lady Macbeth, makes him “Prince of Sweden” in an Italian two-hander and grinds the play into what Polonius might call a “tragical-comical” swipe at the meat industry. Dante Passarelli’s The Last...
by Kamal | Aug 15, 2026 | Property
This summer, the duchy of Cornwall got a new-look website with a bold statement of intent at the top: “We’re on a mission to become a world-leading impact organisation.”Updating the website will have been the easiest part of that mission. Upgrading hundreds of ageing,...
by Kamal | Aug 15, 2026 | Property
More than 100 homes on the inherited royal estates of King Charles and Prince William fail to meet the legal minimum energy standards for landlords, the Guardian can reveal.An analysis of a large sample of domestic lets on the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and the...
by Kamal | Aug 15, 2026 | Property
What has been happening in the housing news week? Landlord Law gives you some highlights in our weekly blog. Fraudulent tenancy applications on the rise thanks to AI Goodlord has carried research on fraudulent tenancy applications and it has found that these are...
by Kamal | Aug 15, 2026 | Property
Westminster council is making it “impossible” for soup kitchens to operate by complaining about the “crowds of vulnerable people” who turn up to be fed, a charity has said.Steven Stuart, who founded Friends of Essex & London Homeless (FOELH) with his wife, Cheryl,...
by Kamal | Aug 13, 2026 | Property
Polls open in Clacton, as research shows Farage has spent more than £10,000 in byelection fight against Count BinfaceGood morning. In the media, August is known as the “silly season”. With parliament not sitting and many people on holiday, there is less proper news...
by Kamal | Aug 13, 2026 | Property
Good morning. This week, immigration minister Anna Turley announced, with minor fanfare, the government will stop using a further 13 hotels to house asylum seekers across the country.It brings the total shut this year to 44, in pursuit of Labour’s manifesto pledge,...
by Kamal | Aug 11, 2026 | Property
Andy Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping is under threat from a failure to find accommodation for a growing number of newly released prisoners, a charity has warned.An analysis by the social justice charity Nacro has found that nearly one in six people leaving jail...
by Kamal | Aug 11, 2026 | Property
Hundreds of residents in blocks of flats in east London have been left without regular running water for more than seven months after development in the area may have left it without an adequate supply.Taps have been running dry in nine blocks in Tower Hamlets, where...
by Kamal | Aug 11, 2026 | Property
Christmas Day in east London. Beatrice Asante empties a bag of potatoes into her kitchen sink and turns on the tap. Nothing. She turns it off and on again. Still nothing. What now?Asante rushes out to the only shop that is open, the local Nisa convenience store. She...
by Kamal | Aug 11, 2026 | Property
Coventry’s most expensive street is Cryfield Grange Road in CV4, which averages £1,425,000 across the two standard residential sales HM Land Registry has recorded there since January 2020. Two sales is the bare minimum this ranking accepts, and both of them...
by Kamal | Aug 11, 2026 | Property
The Common in Quarndon is the most expensive street in Derby, averaging £1,181,250 over six standard residential sales logged from January 2020 to June 2026. The biggest single sale is £2,812,000, a detached freehold house sale on Well Lane in Repton, and Well Lane...
by Kamal | Aug 11, 2026 | Property
Warren Hill in Newtown Linford is the most expensive street in Leicester on the sold-price record since 2020, averaging £2,680,833 across six standard residential sales lodged with HM Land Registry. The record for one individual sale is a different question with, this...
by Kamal | Aug 10, 2026 | Property
The Old Woodyard in Wysall is the most expensive street in Nottingham on the sold-price record since 2020, averaging £2,258,333 across three standard residential sales on HM Land Registry’s register of completed purchases. Every one of those three sales cleared...
by Kamal | Aug 10, 2026 | Property
The most expensive street on the sold-price record since 2020 is Grosvenor Place in Belgravia (SW1X), where twelve standard residential sales average £28,553,596 on HM Land Registry’s England and Wales register of completed purchases. The record for a single...
by Kamal | Aug 7, 2026 | Property
Plans to ban foreign nationals from social housing under a Conservative government have been condemned as “divisive”.Under proposals revealed on Friday, the party said about 230,000 homes would become available if foreign nationals were prevented from accessing social...
by Kamal | Aug 7, 2026 | Property
Welcome to our first Newsround of August, where we find no shortage of housing news this week. Renters at a disadvantage for EV charging A survey out this week claims that renters are at a clear disadvantage when charging their EV vehicles and have to negotiate many...
by Kamal | Aug 6, 2026 | Property
In summary: Sellers mistakenly believe that renovations such as extensions, luxury kitchens, specialist rooms, hot tubs and renewables will always add value to their home Agents say sellers should be careful that extensions don’t remove or reduce other benefits that...
by Kamal | Aug 6, 2026 | Property
UK housebuilder Persimmon has lifted its outlook, saying it is “well-placed” to benefit from prime minister Andy Burnham’s policy agenda, despite growing costs linked to the Iran war.Despite rising cost pressures, Persimmon has lifted its outlook for the full year and...
by Kamal | Aug 6, 2026 | Property
Golf Lane in Church Brampton is the most expensive street in Northampton, measured by average sold price. Ten standard residential sales there average £1,690,650 on the latest Land Registry price paid data, and two of them reached £3 million or more. The record for a...
by Kamal | Aug 4, 2026 | Property
Passivhaus is a building standard that focuses on making ‘passive houses’ that require as little energy as possible for heating and cooling Eco homes are designed to stay cooler in summer, warmer in winter, and use less energy overall Passivhaus focuses on the...
by Kamal | Aug 4, 2026 | Property
A £500m redevelopment of the Truman Brewery estate in Brick Lane, east London, has been approved, clearing the way for the construction of a datacentre, offices and apartments despite opposition from Tower Hamlets council and local campaign groups.The housing...
by Kamal | Aug 3, 2026 | Property
My experience of flies is that during the past 20 years or so there has been a significant decline in numbers – Highland midges not included of course (‘It makes you feel you’ve got a really dirty house’: what’s behind the UK’s plagues of flies?, 30 July).Memories of...
by Kamal | Aug 3, 2026 | Property
Tenants! The Renters’ Guide is live again and updated for the Renters’ Rights Act » The Landlord Law Blog / Source link
by Kamal | Aug 3, 2026 | Property
With the summer well underway, it’s time to revisit the properties that attracted the most clicks from home-hunters on Rightmove in the first half of 2026. And it’s not just the mega-mansions catching people’s eye either, although we’ve got plenty of those too. From a...
by Kamal | Aug 2, 2026 | Property
The government’s housebuilding agenda is hitting the stark reality of a lack of water and crumbling infrastructure across the east and south-east of England.Half the country was declared to be in serious drought this week, for the second consecutive year, with the...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
Here are all our posts for July. Wednesday 1st July Housing Law Handbook 6th Edition by Diane Astin Read my review of the latest edition Housing Law Handbook Thursday 2nd July Landlord Law Blog Roundup for June Roundup of posts for June Friday 3rd July Landlord Law...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
More bookings sound like more money. In the Lake District, the numbers do not work that neatly. The town with the highest occupancy is not the highest earner, while the town charging the highest nightly rate has the lowest occupancy. That is why this guide looks...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
FENSA stands for Fenestration Self Assessment Scheme. It was originally established by the door and window replacement industry in response to the new building regulations introduced in April 2002. These required that any new double-glazed door, window or roof light...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
For qualifying business premises in England and Wales, the Section 40 Notice is a tool for landlords and tenants approaching the end of a tenancy. This legal instrument, rooted in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, serves as a formal request for information, enabling...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
More and more houses will be net zero carbon housing in the future. Here’s a guide to net zero carbon housing including what it is, why it’s important and how to build a net zero carbon house.Article updated: August 2026ContentsWhat is Net-Zero Carbon...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
If you are running (or setting up) a buy-to-let limited company tax rules differ from those if you are owning buy to let properties in your own name. Here’s a guide to understanding tax for buy-to-let limited companies.Article updated: August 2026ContentsLimited...
by Kamal | Aug 1, 2026 | Property
You’ve probably heard of properties being described as ‘freehold’ or ‘leasehold’ but what do these terms actually mean? Today, we look at what do you will need to know if you are thinking about buying a leasehold property and also at...
by Kamal | Jul 31, 2026 | Property
An elderly public housing tenant whose home was damaged by sewage overflows will be fully compensated by the New South Wales government after it disposed of her personal belongings without her consent and failed to properly support her insurance claim.The NSW...
by Kamal | Jul 31, 2026 | Property
Section 21 ends: what possession options do landlords have now? » The Landlord Law Blog / Source link
by Kamal | Jul 31, 2026 | Property
Welcome to our last Newsround of July where bring you all the latest landlord related news from the past week. The end of Section 21 Today (31 July 2026) is the very last day that landlords can issue proceedings for possession based on a Section 21 notice. The end of...
by Kamal | Jul 31, 2026 | Property
Investing in the Lake District? See buy-to-let deals across the UK→The Lake District sits in the north west of England, and since April 2023 it has been split between two councils: Cumberland in the north and west, and Westmorland and Furness in the south and east....
by Kamal | Jul 30, 2026 | Property
In Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of...
by Kamal | Jul 30, 2026 | Property
We should all applaud Andy Burnham’s commitment to end rough sleeping (‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?, 24 July). The ambition is right and overdue. But he set the same goal in Greater Manchester in 2017 and found, as anyone...