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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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Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told

By Harry Scoffin Leasehold houses are STILL being sold under the Help To Buy scheme and taxpayers’ subsidy for them will remain until 2021, the Communities Select Committee has been told. Only in 2021 do the existing Help To Buy procedures end. Oral evidence – MHCLG annual report and accounts 2018 – 21 Jan 2019 […]

Stop auction of ‘worthless’ flat at Blythe Court and alert authorities, Commons asked

Sir Peter Bottomley has urged the Commons to intervene in the auction sale of Flat 1 Blythe Court, where the freeholders and managers are Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond. Flat 1 Blythe Court is up for auction with Barnard Marcus on February 2 in central London with a guide price of £65,000. Sir […]

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Ripped-off leaseholders bring protest to central Manchester

” template=”default” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] More than 60 leaseholders caught up in the ground rent scandal joined a demonstration organised by the National Leasehold Campaign Facebook group in Manchester yesterday. The demo staged their protest outside the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Housing, which was to be addressed by new housing minister […]

Dear Jeffrey Fairburn … Can I buy the freehold to a Persimmon house before you sell it to anonymous investors, please?

An excellent letter has been sent to Jeffrey Fairburn, the CEO of Persimmon Homes, which has built and sold more leasehold houses than any other developer. A potential buyer asked the Facebook National Leasehold Campaign whether he can buy the freehold to the house he wishes to buy, and copies the correspondence to housing minister Gavin […]

BBC R4 Today programme hears of ‘venal, greedy housebuilders’ playing the angles of leasehold

The influential BBC R4 Today programme this morning devoted five minutes discussing the ground rents housing crisis. It can heard here at 2:32 It featured a report of leasehold house owners in Clitheroe, Lancashire, who had bought their properties from Taylor Wimpey. Leaseholder Andrew Henderson told the programme that the ground rents doubled every ten […]

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Cladding forum for private leasehold blocks – 18th July

LKP is organising the first forum for leaseholders in private blocks with ACM cladding. The event will take place in Parliament on the 18th July from 6pm to 8pm. As well as hearing from the speakers the meeting will allow leaseholders from different sites with cladding problems and share theier experiences. It will also provide […]

House of Commons briefing to MPs on Grenfell Cladding: contact LKP

The House of Commons Library today advises MPs and constituents to contact LKP – as well as the Leasehold Advisory Service, which has received extra funding to deal with the issue. The policy is rather different to government’s: LKP has briefed civil servants and advisors numerous times over this issue. But it has never advised […]

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Why does it take 60% of leasehold residents to create a tenants’ association – and only 30% of his constituency to elect Housing Minister Mark Prisk?

The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership is strongly urging Housing Minister Mark Prisk (right) to change the rules to recognise tenants’ associations, as leasehold residents’ associations are formally known in law. At present they can only be set up when 60 per cent of the residents ask for one to be recognised by their freeholder. This is a […]

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Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year

Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond have spent years as landlord causing distress to the leaseholds at Blythe Court and many other sites. LKP first broke the story of the Panie’s ground rent exploits in January 2016 despite warning letters from solicitors Taylor Emmet LLP. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/martin-paine Since this story, we have covered the activities […]

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

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