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You are here: Home / News / FirstPort / AgeUK would not get involved, Shelter has quit, Peverel has been expelled and Esther Rantzen is asking questions … the fiasco of the Campaign for Housing in Later Life

AgeUK would not get involved, Shelter has quit, Peverel has been expelled and Esther Rantzen is asking questions … the fiasco of the Campaign for Housing in Later Life

April 29, 2014 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

CampaignforHousinginLaterLife9Last Friday, Peverel was expelled from the House Builders’ Federation campaign to reinvigorate the retirement housing market.

Its logo was removed from the campaign’s website, while earlier in the week the homeless charity Shelter also decided to jettison the campaign. AgeUK – which last year removed its logos from the Peverel Retirement site – had declined to get involved.

Meanwhile, Esther Rantzen, who is fronting the campaign and who was also contacted by Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, has requested – and received – a full explanation from Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation of its criticisms of the campaign and the wider retirement housing sector.

The HBF has expelled Peverel from involvement in the campaign because of the OFT ruling in December last year that its subsidiary Cirrus had run a bogus tendering operation to win business for warden call and electronic door entry systems.

The OFT found that 65 sites had been scammed between 2006-2009.

Even though Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation had long reported the swindle to the authorities – and the Times had even reported it – the OFT granted Peverel “leniency” on the fiction that it had somehow turned itself in. The property manager got off scot-free, although it has made a £100,000 “goodwill” payment into the contingency funds of the sites affected.

Stewart Baseley, the executive chairman of the HBF, has explained his decision to expel Peverel from the Campaign for Housing in Later Life in an email to a Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation reader:

“In light of the OFT’S recent ruling on Peverel’s breaches of competition law, the campaign partners decided to disassociate Peverel from the campaign and the company’s logo will shortly be removed from the website.

“This was the sum total of Peverel’s involvement with the Campaign for Housing in Later Life, but because of seriousness of the OFT ruling – albeit some years ago and while the company was under different management – we reached the decision that it was no longer appropriate for them to have such a link with our campaign.”

It is astonishing that Peverel was even admitted to the campaign, given the OFT ruling of December 6 last year.

Owing to Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation taking up the issue, Shelter pulled out. Sensibly, AgeUK – which until recently had a retirement leasehold unit – did not get involved.

Yesterday, the Campaign for Housing in Later Life was discussed at a meeting between Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation and Labour’s shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds, the MP for Wolverhampton North East, hosted by Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse.

Coincidentally, Reynolds had earlier met McCarthy and Stone, the retirement house builder that is principally backing the campaign.

Esther Rantzen has suggested that the retirement house builders and Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation should meet to establish common ground and work to improve housing for the elderly, which is desperately needed. Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation enthusiastically agrees.

The Campaign for Housing in Later Life has a narrow agenda to encourage easier planning rules for retirement developers.

It does not address problems in the sector well attested in OFT reports, numerous court records and debates in Parliament, where retirement freeholders and managers have been named.

Related posts:

Shelter ‘dumps’ the Campaign for Housing in Later Life Default ThumbnailEsther Rantzen speaks at ARHM Campaign for Housing in Later Life traced to … McCarthy and Stone HQ! AgeUK removes its logos from the Peverel Retirement website AgeUK echoes Campaign against Residential Leasehold Exploitation in demanding retirement housing reform

Category: FirstPort, HomeSlider, McCarthy and Stone, News, Peverel Cirrus story so farTag: AgeUK, Campaign for Housing in Later Life, Emma Reynolds, Esther Rantzen, Home Builders Federation, McCarthy and Stone, Peverel, Shelter

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  1. Simin Eftekhari

    April 29, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Excellent News. Thank you to LKP and all campaigners. pleased with The lights at the end of tunnels. leaseholders have been in dark for very long time.lime.

  2. Simin Eftekhari

    April 29, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    Excellent News. Thank you to LKP and all campaigners. pleased with The lights at the end of tunnels. leaseholders have been in dark for very long time.

  3. Brenda

    May 1, 2014 at 8:02 am

    Private Eye is covering this story page.30 current edition

  4. Mr.Philip Son

    May 30, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    I am chairman of Limewood Court Residents Association based in Ilford Essex.We are in the process of applying for Right to Manage..We had agreed for a Door Entry and Pull cord system to be installed by Cirrus via Peverel.Now that the OFT report has come to light we have stopped this order and any new contracts involving Peverel.
    Peverel&Proxima the landlord have tried a number ways to deter us from completing our RTM Process.The latest being a last minuet objection resulting us to having go to The Leaseholders Tribunal..
    They do not realize the determination of the older generation not to be worn down or intimidated
    .So anyone in the same position don’t let these large companies stop you exorcising your legal right to Right To Manage.

    The Chairman Limewood Court Residents Association

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