Monthly Archive: Mar, 2024
Tweets supporting military action against the UK, which are also antisemitic and generally a bit worrying…
I have become aware of some wholly unacceptable tweets from someone who may have a Chelsea Bridge Wharf connection.. WARNING – these tweets contain upsetting images, scenes of violence and foul language and… Continue reading
CBWRA’s amazing ‘electricity deal’ outside of bulk retendering process. Does it actually exist?
In October 2023, a resident posted a link from this blog regarding the work I have done around analysing and challenging the Rendall and Rittner electricity tendering process. Rather predictably this person was… Continue reading
CBWRA – still no answers Chair Election procedure and why there are no elections for Directors of the Right to Manage Company
My email to CBWRA today on the Chair Election procedures. I am sure that I will get a prompt, professional and meaningful reply. 🙂 24th March 2024 Dear CBWRA, Larisa Villar Hauser, Louis… Continue reading
The Londoners who are on service charge ‘strike’
Tarah Welsh, BBC London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce7x901l8pko Last week, BBC London reported on the soaring service charges faced by tenants and residents, some of whom have seen their monthly bill rise by hundreds of pounds… Continue reading
Chelsea Bridge Wharf – Right to Manage, Chair elections, and the need for change in CBWRA
There is a lot happening at Chelsea Bridge Wharf with Right to Manage, Chair elections and most importantly ever increasing service charges. In this short video I do my best to summarise the… Continue reading
A letter to the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association on the 2024 Chair Elections and Right to Manage
18th March 2024 From Mike O’DriscollWarwick leaseholderTo: CBWRA ‘Co-Chairs’ Larisa Villar Hauser, Louis Sebastian Kendall Thank you for your email to leaseholders regarding the Chair elections 2024. It is a shame that as with the 2023 elections,… Continue reading
CBWRA 2024 Chair Elections – the further adventures of a Banana republic
In the February committee meeting notes CBWRA claim they had ‘dealt with’ a complaint which I (Mike O’Driscoll) had submitted on the 15th January regarding the misconduct of the 2023 Chair elections. The truth… Continue reading
‘We can’t sell our flat and can’t afford to live in it’ – shared owners worst hit by service charge hikes
Tara Welsh, BBC London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkvkv32e1ro The sky-rocketing charges faced by tenants and residents for the service element of their monthly bills amount to an “industrial-scale scandal”, a support group has told BBC London.… Continue reading