Reforming leasehold: discursive events and outcomes 1984-2000

BLANDY, S. and ROBINSON, D. (2001). Reforming leasehold: discursive events and outcomes 1984-2000. Journal of law and society, 28 (3), 384-408.

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Abstract

This article uses discourse analysis to explore and explain the limits of ongoing efforts to resolve the problems experienced by long leaseholders living in private flats in England and Wales. Attention is focused on the position of leasehold within the three discourses of property law, housing, and housing law, as revealed through the language used in legislation, consultation papers, Law Commission reports, political statements, media representations, and the accounts of leaseholders themselves. The implementation gap between legislative intentions and effects, so often neglected in discussion of housing policy, is explored. The article considers policy and legislation in the light of a metanarrative encompassing all aspects of the multi-occupancy of blocks of flats.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group:	Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
Identification Number:	10.1111/1467-6478.00195
Depositing User:	Ann Betterton
Date Deposited:	19 May 2009
Last Modified:	09 Dec 2009 18:23
URI:	http://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/833

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