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You are here: Home / Latest News / Flush with money: how Kier Homes leaseholders pay for a public toilet in Worthing

Flush with money: how Kier Homes leaseholders pay for a public toilet in Worthing

October 24, 2018 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Privy Council: Arun and Worthing Council won’t take responsibility for the toilet on Worthing beach front unless leaseholders pay up a sort of endowment

Leaseholders in a private block of flats built by Kier Homes on the Worthing seafront are indignant to have to pay to maintain a public toilet out of the service charge.

Planners at Adur and Worthing Council insisted on a public convenience as part of the consent for The Waterfront, on Eirene Road, but when it comes to paying for it, who better than the clueless leaseholders?

The management regime of Chamonix Estates Limited, the freeholder, “clearly demonstrates that the company accepted responsibility for future maintenance of the toilet and indicates that residents would agree to a service charge to cover the costs for maintaining both the public garden and the toilet”.

LKP asked Adur and Worthing Council why it did not choose to make the developer liable for setting aside the funds needed to maintain lavvy.

But it replied that “the ongoing basis for management of communal and public spaces as well as the toilet was for the developer to resolve”. 

The council will take on the maintenance of the facility, but only if the leaseholders pay up a commuted sum.

“However, I appreciate this will not address your concerns that Kier Homes should not have passed responsibility onto the residents and I can only request that you continue to take this matter up with the developer.”

LKP asked the council why it had not told leaseholders they could seek a variation in the s106 agreement and were that declined there is a further right of appeal.

“The Ombudsman is currently dealing with the neighbours complaints and will assess whether there has been any maladministration in this case,” said the council.

Who better to pay for Kier Homes’s inconvenient public convenience than its gullible former customers who bought leases at The Waterfront, Worthing?

 

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  1. Brad

    October 24, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    An here was me kicking off about a single courtyard parking light for neighbouring houses being wired into my unassociated flat block. This is much worse!

    Taylor Wimpey was the builder in question and Chamonix is the agent. Taylor Wimpey have not admitted wrong doing but have confirmed it’s wired into my flat block and agree we should not be paying it. Chamonix on the other hand have remained quiet on the matter. I really hope they do the right thing and evidence the cost deduction from my service charge this year!

  2. chas

    October 24, 2018 at 11:17 pm

    This is not new, Local Authority (LA) Planning Departments have asked for more than just a Public Toilet. in the past. Where this differs is the LA usually arranges for the upkeep and maintenance?
    Could this company be Chamonix Property Equity the same company along with Electra, that purchased Peverel Group out of Administration in 2012 and rebranded the company Firstport Ltd?
    We were informed, one of our first floor flats roof space had an electrical board fitted to run the Careline for the House Managers Flat.

  3. Michael Epstein

    October 25, 2018 at 9:05 am

    Clearly, developers/freeholders are not the “Gents” they portray themselves as?

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