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Slough council takes Nova House leaseholders to tribunal over Grenfell cladding costs

August 2, 2018 By admin

We are only billing leaseholders for the fire marshals not Grenfell cladding removal, says Slough Council is understood to have bought the freehold to the stricken site for £1 – officially, a ‘nominal fee’ – off freehold investor Robert Steinhouse Liverpool debt collectors JB Leitch to take the tribunal action Leaseholders at Nova House which […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News, Slider2 Tagged With: Martin Boyd, Nova House, Robert Steinhouse, Slough Council

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

August 1, 2018 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News Tagged With: Citiscape, Cypress Place, Fresh Building, JB Leitch, Lendlease, Nova House, Pemberstone, Professor Susan Bright, Robert Steinhouse, Slough Council, Vallea Court

Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?

January 20, 2018 By admin

Slough council may take over Nova House from ground speculator Robert Steinhouse, but it is an open question whether it will pay to remove the Grenfell cladding. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid optimistically believed that freehold owners would pay up – in law, the building and land is their’s – but that was never very likely. […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press Tagged With: ARMA, Ground Rent Estates 5 Limited, Nigel Glen, Nova House, Robert Steinhouse, Slough Council, The Guardian

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What is the Property Tribunal doing to protect its own appointed manager? West India Quay: £10 million ‘unaccounted for over six years’ The poisonous dispute at the upmarket site Canary Riverside, part of Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands, was raised by LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse. He accused John Christodoulou […]

LKP and Bottomley at Number 10 to reverse flawed reform of recognised tenants’ associations

LKP chair Martin Boyd and Sir Peter Bottomley attended a meeting at Number 10 yesterday to urge government to overturn its flawed statutory instrument to reform recognised tenants’ associations. The MHCLG announced changes in October and made the existing arrangements even worse for leaseholders. The key hurdle faced by leaseholders is to contact their leasehold-owning […]

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Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia?

The low-born woman who made the Duke of Westminster’s fortune Today’s article in the Financial Times prompts this historical footnote. The FT quite rightly highlights the Court of Appeal action of chartered surveyor James Wyatt, of Parthenia Limited, who is challenging the mathematical calculation of values in lease extensions. If he wins the case, and […]

Ratner moment for UK housebuilders, says Chris Blythe, CEO of Chartered Institute of Building

The forthright CEO of the Chartered Institute of Building has again criticised the UK’s plc housebuilders this month. He references Bovis admitting paying its customers to occupy unfinished homes to meet year-end sales as well as the leasehold house / ground rent scandal. The article can be read here  In February Mr Blythe criticised the […]

Ground Rents Income Fund plc offers help to leaseholders … in order to keep this grisly show on the road

The publicly quoted Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it will help some leaseholders with doubling ground rents. The initiative is a desperate effort to get government off its back and to ensure speculation in the freeholds of ordinary people’s homes can continue. Its statement is here 11 per cent of the fund, which has […]

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Grenfell cladding leaseholders form campaign group

A campaign group of leaseholders in private blocks with Grenfell cladding is being formed. It is calling itself the UK Cladding Action Group: UKCAG and can be contacted here: ukcladdingactiongroup@gmail.com LKP welcomes the initiative and will do all that it can to assist. The Guardian reports: “Only 10 of the 173 private buildings discovered with […]

Bellway and Peabody cave in over Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter

Bellway “as a responsible developer” is meeting the bill … So what about the not-so-responsible Lendlease and Ballymore? In yet another triumph of leaseholder activism, Bellway and the Peabody Trust have caved in over the Grenfell cladding costs at New Festival Quarter. The east London site in the constituency of Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for […]

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Legal army to stop West India Quay getting … a recognised residents’ association

Giving recognition to a residents’ association at the most exclusive apartment block in Canary Wharf posed the sort of “risks that you see with the trade unions”, the First-Tier Tribunal was told last Thursday. The remark was made by the freeholder’s professional witness, chartered surveyor Bruce Maunder Taylor – and was greeted with guffaws of […]

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‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled LEASE annual conference

Leasehold sector insiders were aghast at the address given by Sir Peter Bottomley on Wednesday at the Leasehold Advisory Service “annual conference”. The event was packed with surveyors, valuers, lawyers and property managing agents paying £350 a head to attend what has until now been the most important trade show of the sector. Earlier housing […]

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