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

January 15, 2019 By admin

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 […]

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Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Tory MP Stephen McPartland has successfully shamed Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into varying 15-year doubling ground rents that trapped young families in unsellable homes. Last month Mr McPartland raised the issue in the Commons of 130 shared-equity leaseholders at Six Hills House in Stevenage being unable to sell their properties. But yesterday the beneficial […]

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98% of rip-off lease sales broke consumer protection rules, says Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association claims that 98% of sales of properties with onerous or doubling ground rents broke consumer protection rules. Only 2% of purchasers received information prior to viewing a property, according to a survey carried out with the help of the National Leasehold Campaign and the Home Owners’ Alliance. The Conveyancing Association has reported […]

Vans are banned in Persimmon leases, so here is one outside your sales suite!

Imaginative leasehold activists have struck again: parking a van outside a Persimmon sales suite with warnings about leasehold houses. The van reads: Thinking of buying a dream house? Before signing anything make sure it’s not … LEASEHOLD Or it will become a PRISON! Insist on freehold ONLY Persimmon leasehold houses can have restrictions on parking […]

Dear Pete Redfern … Taylor Wimpey cheated us: what are you doing about it?

Taylor Wimpey CEO Pete Redfern was deluged with emails this morning from desperate owners of leasehold houses. The initiative was organised by the Facebook group National Leasehold Campaign of leasehold house owners. The correspondence was copied in to Sajid Javid, Secretary of State at the DCLG, and housing minister Gavin Barwell. Many emails were also […]

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£3m Grenfell cladding bills fall on residents at Lendlease’s Cypress Place and Vallea Court

The property tribunal last week dumped the cost of removing Grenfell cladding on the residents at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester’s Green Quarter, which were built by Australian builder Lendlease. And Vallea Court pays for the “waking watch” fire marshals. In addition, the tribunal declined to issue a section 20c order, which means […]

Sajid Javid calls for Grenfell cladding round table with developers and freeholders … and LKP will be invited

Communities Secretary Said Javid called today for a Grenfell cladding round table with developers and ground rent speculators … and LKP will be invited to attend. Mr Javid also repeated to the Commons his hope that freeholders and developers take more responsibility for the cladding, which is threatening financial ruin to thousands of families. The […]

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Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

A last minute attempt to stop LKP from publishing three legal opinions extremely critical of the government’s bungled reform to Recognised Tenants’ Associations failed last week. The government introduced a statutory instrument in October that has actually made the position of leaseholders worse. The failing was referenced in the Commons by Sir Peter Bottomley with […]

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

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