Written questions

Duchy of Cornwall: Housing

Commons · Question 89897 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 19 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to improve transparency for homeowners on the terms under which (a) communal and (b) shared land may revert to the Duchy of Cornwall in the event of developers' insolvency.

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...