Orona Limited Archives - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

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 […]

Sebastian O’Kelly
Martin Boyd
sok@leaseholdknowledge.com
martin.boyd@leaseholdknowledge.com

Please use the HELP FORM for ALL non-urgent matters.

Only call the numbers below if you are familiar with the LKP website and feel your issue can only be dealt with on the phone.

020 8050 2602
07808 328 230

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, a registered charity and the secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform, is explained here

Managing agents can apply to become an accredited managing agent here

Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

These issues were raised by Sir Peter Bottomley in the Queen’s Speech debate yesterday Let me turn to other issues that come up for Back Benchers. I pick up causes, one of which came about as a result of an incident in my constituency regarding leasehold, when some elderly, frail and poor people found themselves […]

Housing Minister Mark Prisk holds meeting with LKP – but keep pestering MPs!

After years of banging on a closed door, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation held a meeting with Housing Minister Mark Prisk (right) yesterday. But leasehold activists are urged to keep pressing MPs (and copy us in to your correspondence!) As a result of the meeting, the minister is reviewing the following: How […]

Ground rent scandal risks becoming full-blown crisis as loans are refused on blighted homes

The ground rent scandal risks becoming a full blown housing crisis as mortgage lenders refuse to loans for homes with onerous terms, says the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. This week LKP was contacted by two buyers who had had their mortgages refused, even though the terms are not that onerous. One was in London, where the […]

Cramlington: The wet dream of housebuilders, where everything is sold leasehold

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms By Michael Ellis I live in Cramlington in Northumberland, a new town which began its development in the Sixties by what is now Bellway and Persimmon homes. The vast majority were sold as […]

Why are leasehold house owners mobilising while flat owners suffer in silence?

Around 50 leasehold stakeholders and seven parliamentarians attended the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform on Wednesday evening. The parliamentary turnout was lower than expected, owing to the election. Sebastian O’Kelly, trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, was the first speaker, welcoming owners of leasehold houses from the North West making their second […]

Fury in Manchester as Lendlease wins £160m contract to refurb city hall, while dumping Grenfell cladding costs on leaseholders

Anger has erupted in Manchester after Australian building group Lendlease was awarded a £330 million contract to refurbish the city hall – while declining to help remove Grenfell cladding from its private sites in the city. Lendlease refuses to contribute to remove cladding at two sites in Green Quarter, Vallea Court and Cypress Place which […]

The Sun / The Times urge caution over leasehold purchases, while The Times / Guardian / Mail report Barratt paying out £2m at Citiscape

The number of articles in the national press on leasehold issues continues to grow. Today sees two articles published, one in The Times where it reports on cladding and one in The Sun. The Sun gives its readers a very sensible cautionary guide to leasehold purchases including a mini guide to leasehold from LKP trustee […]

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

DIrection

Find Everything

Essential reads …