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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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Leasehold houses are the ‘spivvy idea of a financial director to make more money on wet Thursday afternoon’, says MP

Andrew Selous, Conservative MP for South West Bedfordshire, told the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform on April 19 that leasehold houses were “despicable”. “For me, this is a spivvy financial director dreaming up on a wet Thursday afternoon how developers can get another stream of income. We should not be treating homeowners in […]

Companies like ARMA member SDL Bigwood are ripping off homeowners in private estates, Parliament is told

SDL Bigwood tried to dump its debts on ‘services that residents did not see being implemented’, claims MP Kelly Tolhurst Hyde Housing Association raised ‘service’ charges from £85 to £128 a month London and Quadrant Housing ‘tried to charge for street lamps and street cleaning provided by Medway Council’ Housing minister wants to ‘make it […]

Tory MP Eddie Hughes moves private member’s bill to cap existing ground rents at £250

By Harry Scoffin Eddie Hughes, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Walsall North, launched a crackdown on ground rents in the Commons today. Ground Rents (Leasehold Properties) includes one of the Communities Select Committee’s headline proposals: regulating existing leases to have ground rents set at 0.1 per cent of the present value of a property, up […]

Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents ‘as low as’ zero

From the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership: The announcement today by Sajid Javid is welcome. Indeed, with 93 MPs and peers in the All Party Parliamentary Group, of which LKP is the secretariat, it at last looks like government is listening. Leasehold houses are an absolute racket: a means by which developers have managed to turn ordinary […]

Dear Ted Ayres … your company Bellway sold our family’s future

Ted Ayres, the CEO of Bellway, also received a wave of emails from his disgruntled customers this morning. The initiative was organised by the Facebook group National Leasehold Campaign of leasehold house owners. In common with all the others in on the leasehold house wheeze, Bellway has been creating an investment asset class at the […]

Ground rent speculators Pemberstone seek £3m tribunal ruling over Grenfell cladding

Another ground rent speculator, the Pemberstone Group, is seeking a tribunal ruling to dump Grenfell cladding costs on 300 leaseholders at two Manchester sites, reports The Independent today. The two sites are Cypress Place and Vallea Court in the so-called “Green Quarter” of the city. The sites were built by Australian builder Lendlease but the […]

Galliard Homes ‘needs to take responsibility for what it has built’

APPG, April 26 A very different scene was outlined to the All Party Parliamentary Group on April 26 by Nigel Pickford (left), a leaseholder at New Capital Quay, another site with Grenfell cladding of more than 900 flats built by Galliard Homes only four years ago. The house builder also owns the freehold and the […]

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

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