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Housing: Solar Power

Commons · Question 38264 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 21 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Coleman

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to encourage freeholders of buildings occupied by multiple leaseholders to install solar panels.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 21 Mar 2025

The government has commenced the Right to Manage measures in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. They came into effect on 3 March 2025.These changes implement the Law Commission recommendation to increase the non-residential floorspace limit from ...