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Duchy of Cornwall: Housing

Commons · Question 89892 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 19 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of mechanisms for homeowners to seek recourse when land held by the Duchy of Cornwall reverts to Duchy ownership following the insolvency of housing develope

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 19 Nov 2025

Homeowners will have such rights of recourse against insolvent corporate developers as exist under the corporate insolvency regime. The Duchy’s policy is to give an appropriate person or body the opportunity to purchase the property formerly owned by inso...