Category Archive: fire safety

The ‘Real’ notes from the meeting between Urang, the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Right to Manage company and leaseholders

Notes from Meeting of Chelsea Bridge Wharf Leaseholders and Urang on 15th September 2025 6.30-8pm at Pestana Hotel London SW11 Executive Summary Urang’s notes from the meeting on 15th September are highly selective… Continue reading

CBWRA tried to avoid vote on ratification of the CBWRA committee – and then refuses to report numbers voting against ratification

As previously reported, the CBWRA June AGM was a farce even by CBWRA standards (see below). One important strand of the games apparently played by CBWRA was to try to avoid a vote… Continue reading

Fears raised over ‘fire risk’ flats in Shrewsbury flats managed by Rendall and Rittner

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2024/02/08/residents-reassured-over-fire-risk-after-block-of-flats-issued-with-enforcement-notice/

The amazing CBWRA ‘electricity deal’ which may not exist – followed by the Amazing Building Safety Act costs ‘deal’ which may not involve CBWRA.

Summary: It would seem that CBWRA may be trying to take credit for work around electricity retendering and controlling Building Safety Act costs which was actually done by London and Quadrant Housing Association.… 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

Rendall and Rittner hit Chelsea Bridge Wharf Leaseholders with £400,000 bill for fire safety

Also in this post: An update on electricity refunds and a note on the challenges for Chelsea Bridge Wharf residents in 2024. In October 2023, this blog reported the letter from Rendall and… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner – 16 x contract inflation on cladding remediation and 27% commission?

An article in the Sunday Telegraph details claims that freeholders and managing agents, including Rendall and Rittner, are alleged to be making unjustifiable commissions and inflated quotes: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/uk/everyone-just-looking-make-profit-people-taking-advantage-cladding/ One example given relates to… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner stand to make £20-40 million from contracts around cladding remedial work

An article in the Sunday Times on 21st March 2021 exposes how Rendall and Rittner stand to make tens of millions of pounds from contracts around cladding remedial work, some of which, it… Continue reading

Guardian story: ‘It’s felt life-ruining’: flat owners face huge bills for new cladding

This story below has many parallels with the situation at Chelsea Bridge Wharf especially in terms of the escalating costs of round the clock fire warden patrols and problems with buying and selling…… Continue reading

BBC story : Imprisoned by cladding: The flat owners who cannot sell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51412328# Thousands of people in the UK are living in flats they cannot sell, because the outside wall is covered in cladding. Sometimes it’s combustible, like the material that turned Grenfell Tower into… Continue reading