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You are here: Home / Latest News / Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

February 13, 2022 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Beleagured leaseholders at Fletcher Court in Colindale, north London, now face their freeholder wanting 44 new flats on top of the building … which has Grenfell ACM cladding, a B2 rating after an EWS1 survey, other building safety issues … and a London Fire Brigade waking watch since December, which leaseholders believe was prompted by the planning notification of the Hallmark Property Group Limited

Hallmark Property Group, the freehold owner of a block of 75 flats with a host of building safety problems is using the government’s controversial permitted development planning give-away to stick 44 new flats – worth around £15 million at pre-cladding prices – on top of the blighted building.

For leaseholders at Fletcher Court, part of the 1,087-flat Pulse development in Colindale, north London, this is a bitter pill to swallow, coming on top of expensive building safety works to remove ACM cladding and other defects that resulted in a B2 rating after an EWS1 in 2019.

Worse, a waking watch was imposed in part of Fletcher Court by London Fire Brigade in December – possibly prompted by the planning request by Hallmark Property Group Limited. This is understood to affect half of the building.

The owner Hallmark Property Group Limited is understood to be Andrew Charles Bacon

Barnet council has to date received 130 objections to the permitted development notification.

One of the leaseholders writes: “The residents cannot handle a building site on top of their homes. All the other issues with the building are already unbearable, and yet you are looking to make more profit …”

The issue has been reported in the local newspaper the Barnet Post

New homes planned on top of Colindale block deemed ‘unsafe’ | Barnet Post

Residents “trapped” in unsellable homes because of cladding issues have vented their anger over plans to build two extra floors on top of their building. Residents “trapped” in unsellable homes because of cladding issues have vented their anger over plans to build two extra floors on top of their building.

It quotes Mab Moeiri-Farsi, who lives in Hitherwood Court, a separate part of the development, saying that he feared the application would be the “tip of the iceberg” and, if approved, would open the door to upward extensions being built on the other blocks.

Fletcher Court, which is above 11 metres tall but below 18 metres, was completed by Fairview New Homes in 2009. Around 887 flats at Pulse are private and a further 200 are owned and run by the Notting Hill Genesis housing association.

Fairview New Homes has sold off the freeholds to the sites to four private freehold investors:

Sinclair Gardens, named so disobligingly in the Commons in the 1990s, with owner Paul Chevalier referenced by then Conservative MP for Edmonton Dr Ian Twinn saying: “It should make us ashamed that our law allows people to behave in that way.”

Zthank ‘eavan, Paul Chevalier has been given the push from Zenith Building, Leicester

Winchester-based E and J Estates, or E and J Capital Partners, run by James Tuttiet, lampooned as a fat cat in The Sun. It had a host of sites with aggressive ground rents.

The Sun attacks ‘fatcat’ housebuilders with inflated fortunes thanks to Help To Buy
Ground rent baron James Tuttiett gives £8,500 to the Tories (which is a bit stingy, considering …)

Adriatic Land 3, part of William Waldorf Astor’s Long Harbour group, which hides the beneficial ownership of its freeholds, often offshore, and had some connections with Hutchison Whampoa of the Li Ka-Shing family.

Does Li Ka-shing own your Adriatic freehold, or Hutchison Whampoa, or billionaire Frank Sixt, or Astor? Only Long Harbour knows, and it’s not saying …
‘Cameron’s brother-in-law Will Astor and the toxic leasehold scandal’, Daily Mail

And Hallmark, which also owns The Stay Club hotel across road Charcot Road.

Boswell and Hitherwood Courts at Pulse are poised to go to the property tribunal against E and J Estates over insurance costs.

The local Conservative MP for Hendon Matthew Offord has had some involvement with Pulse, but to date has not raised the issue of Mr Bacon’s 44 new flats application.

Prior to Communities Secretary Michael Gove’s dictat on January 10 that leaseholders will not be paying for the building safety crisis and that developers need to stomp up £4 billion, Fairview New Homes had been considering a contribution to assist the remediation costs.

Those talks with the residents’ management company are superceded.

Matthew Offord did attend this demonstration of leaseholders outside Parliament in February 2020, just before lockdown:

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

Related posts:

Lord GreenhalghGreenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’ Ritu Saha UKCAGBBC R4 MoneyBox told Grenfell cladding cash difficult to get and does not cover waking watch Jeremy Pocklington cladding scandalMHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’ Government may help over waking watch bills EWS1 Inside HousingWhy hasn’t EWS1 restarted the market in flats caught in the cladding scandal?

Category: Cladding scandal, E&J Capital Partners, Latest News, News, Sinclair Gardens Investments, William Waldorf AstorTag: Adriatic Land, Andrew Charles Bacon, Cladding scandal, Dr Matthew Offord MP, E&J Capital Partners, E&J Estates, Fairview New Homes, Fletcher Court, Hallmark Property Group Limited, Hutchison Whampoa, James Tuttiett, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, Paul Chevalier, Pulse Colindale, Sinclair Gardens, William Waldorf Astor

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  1. Edward

    February 17, 2022 at 3:56 pm

    The current leasehold system from substandard starter flats to rip off reirement apartments is completely immoral. Leaseholders need to consider very carefully which party to vote for at the next general election.

    • Kim

      February 21, 2022 at 5:51 pm

      Indeed. Couldn’t agree more. However the inconvenient truth is that political parties of all hues cannot resist taking wads of cash from developers, offshore freeholders.
      FFS, Labour under Blair promise to “ Abolish Leasehold “……..Ha ent heard a squeak out of Lib Dems re the leasehold/ Cladding/ GR scandal.

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