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Synergy housing association fined £1m over five-year-old’s death in lift

January 15, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

Synergy Housing Limited fined £1m plus £40,000 in legal costs for health and safety failings that led to the death of a five year old girl in a lift accident. Synergy Housing Limited, a subsidiary of Aster Group, which owns more than 30,000 homes, was pleaded guilty along with lift company Orona Limited at Bournemouth […]

Filed Under: Housing associations, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Aster Group, Health and Safety Executive, Inside Housing, Orona Limited, Synergy Housing Limited

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BBC R4 You and Yours reports MPs saying leasehold houses are a ‘national con’

  BBC R4’s consumer programme reported the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform meeting of April 19. It can be heard hereat 34.00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m8z32 Reporter Melanie Abbott attended the meeting and has been covering this story since last December, which has resulted in a number of broadcasts. BBC R4 You and Yours heard that homeowners […]

National housebuilders ‘sold an illusion’ of home ownership, says Justin Madders MP

MP urges housebuilder CEOs to be hauled before the Communities Select Committee Do any of the plc housebuilder CEOs ACTUALLY live in their leasehold products? The government is talking tough about sorting out the leasehold scandal – which has put the lives of at 100,000 homeowners on hold – but those who introduced these toxic […]

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Taylor Wimpey delays ground rent scandal ‘review’ to April, and hopes, like Mr Micawber, ‘something will turn up’

Taylor Wimpey CEO Pete Redfern has told leaseholders today that his company’s “review” into its ground rent scandal will not conclude before the end of April. Mr Redfern also references being “aware of the work being undertaken by the Government on this issue and wish to understand their future plans for leaseholds”. Sebastian O’Kelly, of […]

ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners

The annual conference of ARMA held yesterday in central London was the most rigorous and clear-eyed discussion of leasehold and its many defects yet held by a trade body in the sector. At one point in the proceedings, the audience of 550 managing agents, lawyers, senior civil servants and … two trustees of the Leasehold […]

Ground rents are so valid … to pay out £300m bonuses to Persimmon cronies

Yet another example of cronyism at work as 130 Persimmon staff share out a £300 million bonus thanks to spreading leasehold houses around the country. The company’s hilariously mis-named “long-term incentive plan” – short-term fill-yer-boots, would be more accurate – has already seen CEO Jeffrey Fairburn being awarded a £112 million bonus. The company’s regional […]

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Grenfell cladding

APPG hears agony of Grenfell cladding on private sites, while Lendlease sites head to tribunal to get leaseholders to pay

In the absence of anyone else doing anything, LKP organised the first meeting of private leaseholders in blocks with Grenfell style cladding … but developers like Lendlease stayed away. The meeting was the first opportunity for leaseholders in 297 tower blocks to meet and exchange information and support. No developers, warranty providers or freeholders turned […]

Bellway and Peabody cave in over Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter

Bellway “as a responsible developer” is meeting the bill … So what about the not-so-responsible Lendlease and Ballymore? In yet another triumph of leaseholder activism, Bellway and the Peabody Trust have caved in over the Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter. The east London site in the constituency of Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for […]

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Recognised Tenants’ Association review – Part II

The APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform has asked two specialist barristers to provide formal opinions on the RTA SI which came into force on 1st November 2018. “The Tenants’ Associations (Provisions Relating to Recognition and Provision of Information) (England) Regulations 2018” The first opinion was provided by barrister Rebecca Cattermole of Tanfield Chambers. Miss […]

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Hogan Lovells property solicitors report Blythe Court scandal on website

The issue of Blythe Court flats being sold with exorbitant ground rents is the subject of a website article by international property law giant Hogan Lovells. The article can be read in full here It reports how Sir Peter Bottomley intervened to stop the sale of 1 Blythe Court, which was to have been auctioned […]

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