Tenants of Charles’s estate are forbidden to buy free property under the laws “controlled by the heir to the throne”

Tenants of Prince Charles’ private property are prohibited from buying free ownership of their homes by laws “controlled by the heir to the throne.”

Parts of the Duchy of Cornwall (a stable £ 1bn real estate and investment portfolio) are exempt from two property laws that give families the right to buy their home directly.

Archival documents show that the exemptions were approved after Charles received the legislation’s preview under an obscure parliamentary process, The Guardian reported.

Exemptions mean that residents live in homes that are difficult to sell as the lease runs out and against which they struggle to borrow.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, meets with residents of The Guinness Partnership’s 250th Affordable Home in Poundbury on 8 May 2015 in Dorchester, Dorset

Retired oil executive Davis in the photo, a tenant from the Isles of Scilly, part of the Duchy of Cornwall, told the newspaper he could not buy free ownership of the bungalow he bought in 1984.

But a spokesman for the Duchy of Cornwall said: “Any claim that the Prince of Wales has blocked or unduly influenced the legislation is incorrect.”

Alan Davis, a tenant in the Isles of Scilly, part of the Duchy of Cornwall, told the newspaper he could not buy the free ownership of the bungalow he bought in 1984.

It has been affected by an exemption from the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1993, which excludes Dartmoor, much of which is owned by the Duchy and the Isles of Scilly.

With less than 65 years left to execute the lease, he worries about the future value of his home and tells the Guardian, “The problem comes when you want to sell it. If the lease is reduced to about thirty years, people will only run away. “

He added that it was “absolute nonsense” that he and other residents could not buy their homes directly from the duchy.

Another tenant Jane Giddins has lived since 1996 in one of the prince’s houses in the village of Somerset in Newton St Loe.

She said she and her husband had “invested a lot of money and love in renovating them,” but that when they die, our children will be left with a property that is very difficult to sell.

Mrs Giddins told the newspaper: “The question is: why should the crown be allowed to continue with a feudal system just because they want to?”

The oval cricket ground and Dartmoor Prison are just a few of the properties on the property of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Created in 1337 by Edward III for his son Edward, the Black Prince, the main purpose of the duchy has been to provide a rent, independent of the monarch, for the apparent heir.

The Guardian also said the documents showed that Charles, who holds the title of Duke of Cornwall, also revised the Common and Tenancy House Reform Act of 2002, which contained exceptions that favored the duchy.

The Isles of Scilly, which is part of the Duchy of Cornwall

A spokesman for the Duchy of Cornwall said: “It is a long-standing convention that Parliament is asking the Prince, as Duke of Cornwall, for the consent of those bills that Parliament has decided would affect the interests of the Duchy. of Cornwall.

“If consent is required, the draft legislation is put, by convention, on the Prince of Wales to grant it solely on the advice of ministers and on a matter of public record.”

The spokesman added: “The Duke of Cornwall and the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall have no involvement in drafting legislation relating (to) any part of the leasehold reform, including the residential franchise.

“However, the Duchy takes great care to ensure that anyone who buys a property in which the property belongs to the Duchy is fully aware of the restrictions that may apply to their property as a result of the legislation.”