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...