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Furious attack on government Grenfell cladding inaction in Commons

January 22, 2019 By admin

The government was under attack in the Commons today over its inactivity over Grenfell cladding in private blocks of flats. John Healey, Labour shadow housing secretary, made a powerful attack on Housing minister Kit Malthouse, asking “if the government cannot deal with this, what is it in office for?” Mr Malthouse said, “as a result […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Parliament, Press Tagged With: Clive Betts MP, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Dame Louise Ellman MP, Dr Matthew Offord MP, Heysmoor Heights, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Kit Malthouse MP, Lucy Powell MP, Robert Neill MP, Sir Peter Bottomley

Brokenshire tells freeholders to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. But how can that work?

November 29, 2018 By admin

The government is persisting with its argument that “building owners” must pay up to remove Grenfell cladding from their sites – even though the law has said that they don’t pay, leaseholders do. The statement today from Communities Secretary James Brokenshire says: “Local authorities will get the government’s full backing, including financial support if necessary, […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Cypress Place, Heysmoor Heights, James Brokenshire, Lendlease, Nova House, Vallea Court, Will Astor

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

November 24, 2018 By admin

And sector offers up yet another ‘code of practice’, this time for freeholders (whoever they may be when hidden offshore) One of the greatest fictions of the leasehold sector is that freeholders – even anonymous offshore ones – are the only reliable long-term stewards of a block of flats. The leasehold owners would be incapable, […]

Filed Under: Communities Select Committee, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, ARMA, British Property Federation, Heysmoor Heights, John Dyer, Long Harbour, Louise Ellman MP, Mick Platt, Nigel Glen, Richard Silva, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP, Wallace Partnership Group

Private Eye identifies yet another murky offshore landlord, Vuillard Holdings Limited, with Grenfell cladding

October 4, 2018 By admin

“Snakes and cladders” is Private Eye’s headline revealing Vuillard Holdings Limited as the latest landlord with Grenfell cladding on site. Owned by shy proprietors David and Patrick Kennedy, it owns the freehold of Victoria Wharf, two sites Limehouse in East London, where leaseholders have so far “been forced” to pay £165,000 for fire wardens. LKP […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Press, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Blenheim Centre, David Kennedy, Heysmoor Heights, Long Harbour, Patrick Kennedy, Private Eye, Reflexions, Victoria Wharf, Vuillard Holdings Limited, Will Astor

Government to ask Will Astor: who is the offshore freeholder at Heysmoor Heights (where ordinary families face £18k Grenfell cladding bills)?

May 17, 2018 By admin

The government said yesterday that it was going to haul in the agents for the Guernsey-based freeholders of Heysmoor Heights in Liverpool, which has Grenfell cladding, and demand to know who the freeholders are. LKP has highlighted the issue of Heysmoor Heights several times. Yesterday it was raised in the Commons by local Labour MP […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Parliament, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Heysmoor Heights, Homeground Management Limited, Jake Berry MP, Louise Ellman MP, Sesame Apartments, William Waldorf Astor

Tchenguiz, Astor and offshore freeholders like Abacus Land 4 Limited should PUBLICLY meet over Grenfell cladding, MPs told

March 16, 2018 By admin

Sir Peter Bottomley urged government to hold a public meeting and call in Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor and the offshore owners of residential freeholders to resolve the Grenfell cladding issue. He told Communities Secretary Said Javid: “This week saw the first proper tribunal decision, regarding Citiscape in Croydon, which is owned by the Tchenguiz […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Blenheim Centre, Citiscape, Galliard, Gavin Barwell, Heysmoor Heights, Leasehold Advisory Service, Legal & General, Louise Ellman MP, New Capital Quay, NHBC, Sajid Javid, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

Grenfell cladding crisis prompts the question: what are freeholders actually for?

February 9, 2018 By admin

Taxpayers will have to intervene over cladding, by issuing loans, to prevent hundreds of leaseholders losing their homes. But the crisis shows the pointlessness of current leasehold landlordism. What do they actually do, apart from having all the power over ordinary people’s homes and raising revenue for themselves? The Grenfell cladding crisis demonstrates to an […]

Filed Under: ARMA, Latest News, News, Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: ARMA, Citiscape, Grenfell, Heysmoor Heights, Nigel Glen, Sadiq Khan, Sajid Javid

Fresh building is to pay £100,000 for fire marshals … with more Grenfell bills to come

February 1, 2018 By admin

The 120 leaseholders at the Fresh building in Salford have been ordered to pay the £100,000 fire warden bill after Grenfell cladding was found at the site. The decision last week comes before a similar concerning Citiscape, Croydon, scheduled next week, where the freeholder is Vincent Tchenguiz’s so-called Tchenguiz Family Trust, based in the British […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press, William Waldorf Astor Tagged With: Citiscape, E&J Capital Partners, Fresh Building, Grenfell, Heysmoor Heights, James Tuttiett, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Will Astor, William Waldorf Astor

John Healey says it’s ‘wrong’ for leaseholders to have to pay to remove Grenfell cladding

January 19, 2018 By admin

Labour shadow secretary for housing John Healey says it is ‘wrong’ that ordinary leaseholders are being dumped with huge bills to remove Grenfell Tower cladding from private blocks of flats. In a letter to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid (below) he writes: “It is surely wrong that residents have to pay for these essential works. Rather […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Parliament Tagged With: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Citiscape, Heysmoor Heights, John Healey MP, Sajid Javid, Will Astor

Tchenguiz / FirstPort in court to dump £2m Grenfell costs on Citiscape leaseholders – despite Sajid Javid plea

January 17, 2018 By admin

UPDATE: FirstPort response, 6pm; Guardian report, 6.22pm; MailOnline report 23.40 Tchenguiz / FirstPort goes to court on February 6 to dump the £2 million costs of removing Grenfell Tower cladding at Citiscape, in Croydon, on the leaseholders. If successful, the leaseholders claim that they will have to pay up in full by March, while FirstPort […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Tchenguiz Tagged With: Chamonix, Citiscape, Electra, FirstPort, Heysmoor Heights, Proxima GR Properties Limited, Sajid Javid, Vincent Tchenguiz

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

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Justin Madders Bill: 10x annual ground rent and the freehold is yours … Anyone got a problem with that?

Justin Madders, the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, has unveiled his Bill to short-circuit the smokes and mirrors calculations of the leasehold sector and allow leaseholders to buy their freeholds for 10x annual ground rent. The Bill – in the extraordinary event that it is accepted – will render further Law Commission consultation […]

Brokenshire announces £200m Grenfell cladding removal fund – hours after APPG meeting of leaseholders

UPDATING … A £200 million fund to remove Grenfell cladding from private blocks was announced this morning by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire on the BBCR4 Today programme. It can be heard at 07.10 here This action has been long predicted by LKP, believing that ministers’ appeals to freeholders and developers to “do the decent thing” […]

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By Sebastian O’Kelly Persimmon share prices have surged 30 per cent to £457.4 million in the first half of the year – boosted by rip-off leasehold houses and the taxpayer-funded Help To Buy scheme. It means Jeff Fairburn, the CEO of the company, is in line for an absurd £125 million bonus. Unlike Tony Pidgley, […]

Now Daily Telegraph wades into the leasehold house racket

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms Yesterday the Daily Telegraph waded into the on-going scandal of housebuilders eroding the wealth of generation with leasehold homes. “A generation of home buyers is set to live under the shadow of complex, onerous […]

Does Steve Morgan deserve a demo on Redrow’s doorstep?

By Sebastian O’Kelly No, not entirely. Yes, Redrow may be thought to be shafting its customers at Ledsham Garden Village by playing the leasehold angles, if these houses could be sold normally as freehold. Yes, it has high ground rents at its fancy flats at, for example, Kingston Riverside, in Surrey So far, so developer […]

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Will Astor ‘tried to nobble reform of ground rents’, Daily Mail claims

The ground rent speculator – and former employee of Vincent Tchenguiz – Will Astor mounted an eleventh hour lobbying effort to derail reform of leasehold, reports the Daily Mail today. The Mail claims that the 38-year-old, who is the half brother-in-law of former prime minister David Cameron, hired London-based PR firm Pagefield through his £1.3 […]

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders

We are all waiting for Sajid Javid The All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform met on December 6 at Westminster. Overshadowing all was the conclusion of Communities Secretary Sajid Javid’s report on “Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market”: the review that he announced in the summer, that concluded in September, into […]

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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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Martin Paine resigns from IRPM after leaseholder complaint

Following a complaint to the Institute of Residential Property Management (IRPM) Martin Paine has chosen to resign his position as a member rather than face investigation. On several occasions in the last 18 months this site has reported on the exploits of Martin Paine, his FCA regulated wife, Ann Kirmond (Ref no MAK01110), and their […]

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