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Grenfell United link up with leaseholder groups to protest cladding crisis and warn next government of Grenfell 2

December 5, 2019 By Admin3 Leave a Comment

By Harry Scoffin Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have this week joined forces with leaseholders stuck in privately-owned blocks clad with deadly combustibles, telling the major party leaders of their “deep and grave concern that a Grenfell-like fire is going to occur again”. In a letter sent on Tuesday to Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: Grenfell cladding, grenfell tower, Grenfell United, Manchester Cladiators, Martin Boyd, The Guardian, UK Cladding Action Group

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

December 19, 2017 By admin

Will Astor asked whether he has beneficial interest in Abacus Land 4 Limited   The anonymous world of offshore ownership in the leasehold sector is placed in sharp relief by families facing £18,000 demands to remove Grenfell cladding and pay for fire marshals at Heysmoor Heights, in Toxteth in Liverpool. The freeholder is Abacus Land […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Slider2, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Adrian Flook, Citiscape, Crosby Textor, Grenfell cladding, grenfell tower, Heysmoor Heights, Homeground Management Limited, Long Harbour, Louise Ellman MP, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Will Astor

‘Gargantuan’ Grenfell cladding bills from Astor and Tchenguiz on sites such as New Festival Quarter, The Times reveals today

December 5, 2017 By admin

The Times today reports how leaseholders are facing “gargantuan” bills for fire marshals and Grenfell cladding removal from the likes of Vincent Tchenguiz and Will Astor. Up to a 100 private blocks of flats are affected, it claims. “The situation has echoes of a leasehold scandal this year when construction companies sold houses with ground […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Press, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Andrew Ellson, Grenfell cladding, grenfell tower, Heysmoor Heights, New Festival Quarter, Tchenguiz Family Trust, The Times, Vincent Tchenguiz, Will Astor

DCLG urged to inform leaseholders over Grenfell cladding bills … and stop snubbing LKP

December 1, 2017 By admin

The issue of DCLG civil servants declining to pass on details of flats with Grenfell Tower cladding to LKP has been raised in the Commons. Although LKP has given information of private blocks of flats with the cladding, the civil service don’t feel any obligation to do the same … even though freeholders are lining […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Andrea Leadsom MP, Blenheim Centre, Citiscape, DCLG, grenfell tower, Heymoor Heights, Sir Peter Bottomley

Croydon leaseholders at Citiscape face £750,000 bill to remove Grenfell Tower cladding

November 2, 2017 By admin

At least 20 private blocks affected Bills for fire marshals at one site have reached £16,000 a week Leaseholders in the Citiscape block of flats in Croydon face a £750,000 – £1 million bill to remove the same insulation cladding involved in the Grenfell Tower fire. Two fire marshals are employed 24/7 at £5,000 a […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz Tagged With: Citiscape, FirstPort, grenfell tower, Tchenguiz Family Trust

NATIONAL LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGN (NLC) WILL HOLD A MINUTES SILENCE IN HONOUR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE GRENFELL TRAGEDY.

August 28, 2017 By Katie Kendrick

NATIONAL LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGN (NLC) ARE HOLDING A MINUTES SILENCE TO HONOUR GRENFELL TOWER VICTIMS. Today at 1500hrs the National Leasehold Campaign will fall silent. 7200 strong members of the NLC will stand in solidarity today to hold a minute’s silence to honour all Grenfell Tower Victims. “As fellow leaseholders we stand united” Across UK, our […]

Filed Under: National Leasehold Campaign Tagged With: grenfell tower, Minutes silence, National Leasehold Campaign

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Brokenshire to meet house builders and freehold investors … but no leaseholders

James Brokenshire is to meet house builders and freehold investors  on Thursday … but not with the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership or any other leaseholder body, as Sir Peter Bottomley has recommended. These will include CEOs or senior executives of Taylor Wimpey, Bellway, Persimmon, Barratt, Countryside Properties plc, Redrow, Laing O’Rourke, Morris Homes, Miller Homes, First […]

Billionaire John Christodoulou and his lawyer David Marsden accused of ‘little short of harassment’ of court-appointed managing agent

What is the Property Tribunal doing to protect its own appointed manager? West India Quay: £10 million ‘unaccounted for over six years’ The poisonous dispute at the upmarket site Canary Riverside, part of Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands, was raised by LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse. He accused John Christodoulou […]

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BBC R4 You and Yours now turns to Countryside’s doubling ground rents

Note: Please comment on this item extensively, as time constraints mean we cannot write up the content of this important item. The influential BBC R4 You and Yours programme featured an excellent report on June 2 Countryside Properties plc flat owners facing doubling ground rents. Case study Baz Jafar spoke eloquently at how this impacts […]

STOP Selling new build leasehold houses demands Leader of the House of Commons

In the House of Commons today one of the latest members of the leasehold reform APPG spoke passionately about the scandal of leasehold houses. MP for South West Bedfordshire, Andrew Selous, raised the unacceptable practice of large developers buying freehold land on which they then sell houses on a leasehold basis.  This is currently taking […]

Leaked Taylor Wimpey document showing doubling ground sales TODAY is “an oversight”

A leaked Taylor Wimpey document says that it is still selling flats with doubling ground rents but it is “an oversight” and “incorrect”, according to CEO Pete Redfern. Translation: This is an unaccountable blunder contradicting everything Taylor Wimpey has told MPs and press about its ground rent policy. The document, dated December 2016, clearly states […]

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Grenfell cladding

Prime Minister ‘not ruling anything out’ with freeholders and builders over responsibility for Grenfell cladding

The prime minister addressed the Grenfell cladding issue in private blocks at parliamentary questions this afternoon, ‘ruling nothing out’ to get residential freeholders and developers to take responsibility rather than dump costs on leaseholders. She said that Barratt, Legal and General and Taylor Wimpey “are doing the right thing and taking responsibility”. The recognition of […]

Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore won’t be doing the ‘decent thing’ over Grenfell cladding costs at New Providence Wharf

Dublin-based developer Ballymore has bluntly told an MP that leaseholders will have to pay to remove Grenfell ACM cladding panels at New Providence Wharf in Poplar, east London. It joins Aussie developer Lendlease, which is refusing to pay out – or explain why not – at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester. A figure […]

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Tower Hamlets Homes spends thousands to thwart recognised tenants’ association

Tower Hamlets Homes is spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on lawyers to thwart private leaseholders from forming a recognised tenants’ association. This is the sort of manoeuvre adopted by some of London’s most secretive and well resourced landlords, not the housing branch of a local authority. The only serious power a recognised tenants’ […]

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Stop auction of ‘worthless’ flat at Blythe Court and alert authorities, Commons asked

Sir Peter Bottomley has urged the Commons to intervene in the auction sale of Flat 1 Blythe Court, where the freeholders and managers are Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond. Flat 1 Blythe Court is up for auction with Barnard Marcus on February 2 in central London with a guide price of £65,000. Sir […]

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