Category Archive: Banana Republic

CBWRA AGM – Omnishambles

Thanks to all residents who attended the AGM – or tried to! the CBWRA AGM was a shambles..even by CBWRA standards. The list of committee members circulated 2 hours’ ahead of meeting, new… Continue reading

CBWRA REFUSES TO ALLOW COMMITTEE OR RESIDENTS TO SEE THE CONTRACT WITH URANG – IS THERE SOMETHING TO HIDE?

I proposed this motion for the CBWRA AGM – ”The contract which CBW RTM signed with Urang (managing agents) in September 2023 approx, for preparing the RTM application, and becoming managing agent if the… Continue reading

CBWRA AGM 2024 – people asked to vote on committee ‘ratification’ without any advance list of committee members – the committee includes one resident who has been the subject of 4 complaints to the Police by 3 residents

Summary: CBWRA members are being asked to vote for the ”ratification” of a group of people without any idea of what they have done, what they stand for or even who they are.… Continue reading

CBWRA still refuses to let committee or residents see key contract with managing agent

The CBWRA 2024 AGM – once again a desperation to restrict resident involvement

Residents were sent the following email (below) re the AGM by CBWRA ‘co-chairs’ Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall, who changed the constitution in September 2023 resulting in only 9% of leaseholders… Continue reading

Omnishambles: The current CBWRA committee are not fit to lead, in my view and we need genuine elections now

The serving of the RTM notice on the freeholders is very welcome, albeit 2 years late and coming from people (Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall) who were until recently telling residents… Continue reading

Residents force CBWRA to abandon closure of the CBW app – still no procedure to prevent arbitrary app account closure

CBWRA made a unilateral decision to close the CBW app a few weeks ago, supposedly because it was ‘unsustainable’ at a cost of £5k per annum (which is roughly what they have left… Continue reading

El Presidentes say elections would threaten stability of Banana Republic and will stay in office beyond their elected term

At the so called ‘Leaseholder forum’ on 24th Jan, El Presidentes (Chairs Louis Sebastian Kendall & Larissa Villar Hauser) stated that the Chair elections (due in February) will be postponed for reasons of… Continue reading