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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Barry Gardiner (Labour), on Thursday, 13 January 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 19 members in total.


BARRATT HOMES AND NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSITS

That this House strongly condemns the action of Barratt Homes Limited in retaining ??18,000 in non-refundable deposits from prospective home-buyers at the Chamberlayne Walk development at Preston Road in Brent North without advising them that they themselves had no legally registered title to the land and that this would make it impossible to secure a mortgage on the property, thereby forfeiting the deposit; regards such sharp practice as contrary to the basic principles laid down in Section 110 of the Land Registry Act 1925, and as a scam perpetrated on people who paid deposits in good faith; and urges Barratt Homes to refund the deposits forthwith.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
260 
Session
1999-00
Subjects
Deposits Housing Land Registration Brent Barratt Developments
Link
View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk