Category Archive: Elections

2024 Chair elections – Notes from meeting of CBWRA Chair candidates with residents – 6th April (Scott House, BPS)

Dear residents,This is an update regarding the 2024 CBWRA Chair elections.We had a useful  meeting of Chair  candidates and residents on Sat 6th April  at BPS. You can access the full notes here.  As a… Continue reading

The latest strange electoral rules changes from CBWRA – you have to buy one RA membership for each property you own, to get voting rights

The CBWRA chair elections form contains the following text ‘‘Voting remains strictly for members of CBWRA, duplicate vote submissions will be void, and members holding multiple memberships will be counted in line with the… Continue reading

Questions that CBWRA Chairs Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall can’t or won’t answer

April fools? CBWRA committee’s latest and most desperate electoral manipulations. Why are they so scared of a fair and free election?

The CBWRA ‘co-chairs’ (Larisa Villa Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall) and so called ‘electoral oversight committee’ (which according to CBWRA march 24 committee meeting notes are Catherine Thome, Toby Spoerer and the former… Continue reading

CBWRA apparently OK with Rendall and Rittner’s £400,000 fire safety charges! Also in this post: New games planned to manipulate 2024 chair elections and no elections at all for Directors of the CBWRA Right to Manage company

At the end of January 2023 I reported here that Rendall and Rittner planned to hit Chelsea Bridge Wharf with a budgeted cost of £400,000 for work supposedly related to the Building Safety… 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

50% of leaseholders reportedly signed up for Right to Manage at Chelsea Bridge Wharf – but CBWRA denies this and still acting like a banana republic

I am pleased to relate that according to information I have received, the 50% threshold for serving Right to Manage notices on the freeholders at Chelsea Bridge Wharf has been reached or is… Continue reading

Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association is Derecognised by Berkeley Homes – and why it matters

In February 2023, CBWRA was given 6 months’ notice by the main CBW freeholder (Berkeley Homes) that they would be derecognised. Despite that notice period, CBWA have not been able to satisfy Berkeley… Continue reading

CBWRA have proved they cannot run fair elections – We need independent electoral oversight

Those who were supposed to be ensuring a fair electoral process actively undermined it by initiating Garton-Jones’ biased email to 400 + leaseholders, while voting was live.