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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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Theresa May also thinks that ‘building owners’ – freeholders – will pay for Grenfell cladding

<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&amp;amp;amp;lt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt; After Sajid Javid, James Brokenshire and Kit Malthouse … now the prime minister this afternoon insists that “building owners” will pay for Grenfell cladding removal. The Tchenguiz group at Northpoint in Bromley has already […]

“Leaseholders are being let down again by Taylor Wimpey” says MP

Ellesmere Port & Neston MP, Justin Madders has written to developer Taylor Wimpey to express disappointment. He was contacted by constituents who had been notified that their ground-rent will be doubled in July this year, despite an offer being made by Taylor Wimpey to remove the onerous doubling terms. Mr Madders points out that when […]

Guardian reports misery of leasehold home owners trapped by John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust – and the Mail, Sun, Mirror and Lad Bible (any we have missed?)

UPDATE: for reasons that are a mystery to LKP, this story has now become widespread: Mail, Mirror, Sun (below). All are copies of the Guardian article, which may itself be from the Cambridge Evening News. It may be a case of the age of national newspaper website journalists which explains why this one took off […]

Ask Louie Burns: The leasehold houses scandal and what you can do about it

Louie Burns, of Leasehold Solutions, here gives his assessment of the leasehold houses scandal and advice on what you can do about it. LKP unhesitatingly recommends that leasehold house owners contact Louie Burns, who has a proven track record of working with leaseholders to resolve their problems. He speaks frequently at sector events and is […]

Labour to cap ‘legalised extortion’ of ground rents and end leasehold houses … Opposition and government now compete to reform leasehold

Survey on onerous ground rent data. Please fill this in if you have a leasehold house with exploitative ground rent terms The four-year campaign of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership to reform leasehold has taken a surge forward this week. Today Labour said that it will cap charges that leaseholders pay in ground rents, and set […]

MHCLG ‘fundamentally flawed’ in expecting freeholders to pay for Grenfell cladding removal, LKP tells the FT

The FT today reports that government hopes that speculators in residential freeholds – especially anonymous ones hidden offshore – are unlikely to pay up to remove Grenfell cladding. The article coincided with reports of Places for People, freeholder of Leeds Saxton, issuing a non-repayable loan to leaseholders and pursuing a claim against warranty provider NHBC. […]

Grenfell cladding debate: Who thinks offshore freeholders will pay (apart from government ministers)?

– Government should retrospectively ensure leaseholders are a legal party to insurance and warranties – Identify offshore freeholders demanding huge sums of money, MP demands – Get freeholders in front of Communities Select Committee – Waive VAT on cladding replacement costs, says Bottomley – Steve Reed MP: ‘No other country in the European Union permits […]

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

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