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You are here: Home / News / £30,000 bill for RTM ‘fiasco’

£30,000 bill for RTM ‘fiasco’

June 13, 2012 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

A group of 120 leaseholders in Brighton have failed in their bid to win “right to manage” and have been left with a legal bill of more than £30,000.

The RTM company set up at Kingsmere, a Seventies building on the London Road in Brighton, has only £800 left in the accounts and faces going into administration.

“We have been completely let down by lawyers and by the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal process,” says John Deacon, chairman of the residents’ association and the RTM company.

“Going for RTM is a ‘no fault’ process and should have been simple. Instead, this has been an utter fiasco and a whole load of ordinary leaseholders have been left with a massive legal bill.”

Residents at Kingsmere in Brighton feel “frustrated and bitter” after LVT defeat

Deacon claims that Kingsmere’s residents will have to pay approximately £14,000-16,000 for their own costs, and another £17,000 on behalf of the landlord.

Kingsmere is divided into four blocks and includes communal gardens and garages. The site is managed by Parsons Son & Basley for the freeholder Anstone Properties.

In April last year some residents set up an RTM company, and in three buildings there was an eagerness to opt for RTM, with notices served on July 20.

The fourth building delayed and only achieved a majority for RTM, serving notice on September 9.

This 49-day gap between the dates has sunk Kingsmere’s attempts to win RTM.

The landlord contested the RTM, barristers were engaged by both sides and the LVT heard the case last February.

The case turned on whether the residents’ company had the right to RTM for the four sites as only three blocks had elected for RTM at the same time. And as the application did not specify RTM for any less than the whole site, the residents got nothing at all.

“Everyone here feels very frustrated and bitter,” says Deacon. “It is very likely the RTM company will go into administration.”

The leaseholders’ solicitors JPC Law were contacted, but declined to comment.

Read the full LVT ruling here:

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  1. Jeff Platt

    June 13, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    Going into administration will not resolve all their cost issues. It is not the RTM Co which is responsible for the landlord’s reasonable costs but each individual member – as stated on the notice inviting participation in the company.

  2. Morven McCallum

    June 26, 2012 at 11:40 am

    Thank goodness we didn’t go down the RTM route, but for the whole hog…ie buying the freehold. This won’t be that expensive in the long run Not only will we not have to pay the silly annual charges including a highly inflated insurance premium, the bizarre costs they think up during the year, the ‘management charges’ they dream up, everything having 15% added to the cost. Our management agents were the same people as the freeholders so we were well stitched up. Also, using a highly recommended local solicitor rather than some supposedly champions of the cause was a good move. We are FREE of the exploitation we have experienced for many years and it is wonderful.

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