Why this blog exists – it is a much needed response to censorship and misinformation at Chelsea Bridge Wharf

This blog exists because due to sustained online bullying, meaningful debate on the CBW App has become impossible. Residents who question the RTM co or Urang are often subjected to personal attacks, which discourages open discussion. They may have their CBW app accounts closed or ‘shadow banned’. My blog, together with the Facebook group, provides an alternative forum where issues can be discussed more freely.

Rather than focusing on the existence of my blog, I would encourage the RTM company to engage with the substantive issues it raises. If the concerns are unfounded, they should be addressed with evidence. If they are justified, they deserve to be acted upon.

First, there was very little about Chelsea Bridge Wharf on my blog until my CBW App account was arbitrarily closed after I challenged misinformation being circulated to leaseholders by the CBWRA about RTM not being possible (circa 2022). It was the behaviour of the committee, and in particular attempts to silence criticism, that led me to write more extensively about events at CBW. 

Second, I am entitled to express my views within the law. Freedom of expression includes the right to criticise those exercising positions of responsibility, including the RTM company and its directors and Urang.

Third, it is obvious that my blog is not an official publication of the RTM company. There is no such thing as the “official view” of an entire development in any case. The RTM company manages the building; it does not control what residents are entitled to say or think, nor does the freeholder, nor does Urang.

Fourth, I take accuracy seriously. Everything I publish is based on published evidence or evidence available to me which I can produce if needed. If you believe that any statement is factually incorrect, please let me know the specific point and provide any supporting evidence. If I have made an error, I will correct it.

Fifth, I know that residents find the blog useful because it provides detailed commentary on matters affecting CBW that they cannot obtain elsewhere. It also has a wider readership among leaseholders interested in leasehold reform and building management and is linked to a 6,000+ petition against Rendall and Rittner and the Rendall and Rittner Action Network. It was a key part of getting RTM at Chelsea Bridge Wharf , particularly exposing CBWRA’s misinformation to residents about Right to Manage supposedly not being possible and supporting others at countless developments to do so.

Please follow this blog, join our Facebook group or contact me directly: residents@chelseabridgewharf.org.uk. Freedom of speech and impartial information with criticial analysis are vital to leaseholders holding Urang and the RTM company to account. This is badly needed as the latest service charge increases and large planned expenditure show.

A year ago, many leaseholders at Chelsea Bridge Wharf were told that a new dawn was arriving. Out would go Rendall and Rittner, long criticized by residents over service charges, transparency, and accountability and murky involvement with the politics of the residents’ association. In would come resident control through Right to Manage (RTM), with Urang taking over as managing agent. There was excitement. There was optimism. There was talk of democracy, accountability, and “taking back control.” Urang (with little credibility even at the time) promised a ‘new age of transparency’.

So now, after a year of Urang at Chelsea Bridge Wharf, how has it actually gone? At the current time, despite Right to Manage, leaseholders at Chelsea Bridge Wharf:

• Cannot view the management contract with Urang (this has recently been offered subject to an NDA which is so sweeping and restrictive that no reasonable person could sign it).
• Cannot see notes of meetings between the RTM company directors and Urang or other ”interested parties” such as Garton-Jones estate agents.
• Cannot hear a recording or see a transcript of meetings between Urang and leaseholders and are instead given notes by Urang which are a complete misrepresentation of the meetings with residents, omitting all criticism of Urang and the directors 
• Cannot vote for directors in a meaningful and fair election.
• Cannot participate in a meaningful AGM  there has been ONE AGM  in the entire history of the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Right to Manage Company (in December 2025) using LUMI software and that lasted nine minutes: leaseholders were not able to see or hear each other and there was no discussion of any kind
• Are not meaningfully consulted on our priorities / how our service charges should be spent.
• Cannot see the results of a ‘residents’ survey’ carried out by Urang in November 2025.
  
• Since the RTM directors were ‘elected’ in December 2025, up to the time of writing (end of June 2026) there has not been a single meeting with leaseholders.

Leaseholders supported the Right to Manage but did not have any meaningful say in the appointment of Urang nor in the renewal of Urang’s contract in January 2026 (a contract which they are unable to see unless they sign an NDA which is so sweeping that it would amount to a gagging order on anything to do with Urang). Indeed leaseholders were not even informed that Urang’s contract had been renewed in January 2026 or for how long or with what fees, terms and conditions. This is not good enough and as long as Urang and the RTM company continue to insult leaseholders’ intelligence and until there is freedom of speech on the CBW app, and fair elections for the directors of the Right to Manage company then there is a need for this blog.