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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 […]

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Lords debate leasehold reform

Both the Tchenguiz family and Peverel were named in a House of Lords debate yesterday on leasehold service charges. They were singled out by Baroness Gardner of Parkes (Conservative) – the only freeholders and managing agents named in the debate – when referring to landmark LVT settlements, including the £1 million pay-back to residents at […]

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Where does one start with Housing minister Heather Wheeler’s evidence to the Communities Select Committee? LKP described Mrs Wheeler’s evidence on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme as “ill-informed”.  Of the ten or so MPs in the room, it was apparent that the housing minister knew the least about leasehold. At 13.30 below: You […]

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Ground rent scandals

ITV News covers the leasehold house scandal, and homeowners stage mass demo on March 18

ITV News has again reported the leasehold house scandal, which particularly affects the North West. The item, broadcast on March 7, precedes increasing militancy from caught-out leasehold homeowners, some of whom cannot now sell their houses because of onerous ground rents. On March 18 a demonstration is planned by the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group […]

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

By Sebastian O’Kelly On Monday, MPs of the Communities Select Committee at last flushed out the developers and ground rent speculators who profit from turning ordinary families’ homes into long term investment assets. A murky sector that habitually hides behinds the courts, lawyers, lobbyists and trade bodies finally had to justify its practices and, indeed, […]

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 […]

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Grenfell cladding

New Capital Quay cladding may cost £7-10m, while NHBC sends in experts – and libel warning to BBC

The misery of the leaseholders at New Capital Quay featured on the BBCR4 You and Yours programme after the APPG on April 6. It emerges that Galliard estimates the cost removing the cladding at the 1,00 flat site at £7-10 million (plus the fire marshals). The warranty provider the NHBC, which employed celebrity libel lawyers […]

(Galliard v NHBC v the Government v Cladding suppliers) v the Leaseholders

This week saw The Times, the Guardian and the BBC reporting on the ‘New Capital Quay’ site in Greenwich.This site is the largest privately owned development in the UK with ACM type cladding. Costs for replacing the cladding are being suggested at £20 million or even £40 million. In an interview for ‘You and Yours’ […]

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Has Brokenshire trashed Sajid Javid’s reforms of leasehold?

  October 14 2018 UPDATE: On January 29 2019 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire held a round table with leaseholder groups, assuring them that zero ground rents were on the table. Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP and www.BetterRetirementHousing.com, argued for retirement housing also to lose its exemption from any ground rent ban.  This week we should have […]

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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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