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CARL actively
campaigns to keep leasehold on the political and media agenda by
seeking media publicity, lobbying MPs and government, and putting its case
to any organisation with an interest in leasehold.
Recent activities include:
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Help
CARL extend the campaign to end the misery and inequity of leasehold.
If you're not a member do join.
Keep the pressure up on your MP and force
them to take a serious interest in leasehold problems.
Write letters to the press and help raise the media profile of leasehold.
Distribute copies of CARL's newsletter The Leaseholder to your
neighbours, and engage them in the isssues. Contact CARL for more copies.
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Getting letters published
in national newspapers and Estates Gazette (the latest flurry in
the Estate Gazette can be seen in the current newsletter).
Committee Members met Shona McIsaac (MP
for Cleethorpes) in February, to argue for the revival of the All-party
Parliamentary Group on Leasehold. Shona, an MP knowledgable about leasehold,
agreed to help revive the group..
CARL chairman Nigel Wilkins appeared
on Radio 4's Money Box programme to discuss the failure of commonhold
to take off.
The Daily Telegraph consulted
CARL for a hard-hitting article on leasehold
exploitation published on 21 January 2006, and featured a committee member's
own dreadful experience with leasehold.
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Nigel Wilkins recently attended a meeting
with the Office of Fair Trading arranged by John Denham MP, to discuss
the unfair contract terms in leases.
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