Category Archive: LKP

Dodgy Elections for Directors of the CBW Right to Manage Company but – please use your vote! Do not choose ‘discretionary’ option. 

Voting has opened in the elections for directors of the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Right to Manage Company. The role of the directors is (or should be) to supervise and direct the managing agent (Urang) in… Continue reading

Urang are still evading leaseholders’ questions about procedure for Election of Directors of the Chelsea Bridge Wharf RTM company

After a great deal of pressure from residents, Urang reluctantly gave an approximate date for election of directors of the RTM company – now promised by Urang for the end of November 2025. Urang… Continue reading

Elections for Directors at Chelsea Bridge Wharf – Candidate still silenced, no dates, no procedure and the contract with Urang remains secret.

Can you have fair elections when one of the likely candidates has been deliberately silenced by the others? Where there is no opportunity for candidates to debate the issues that matter? Where there… Continue reading

Commonhold is the way forward – but we need the same democratic checks and balances for Right to Manage companies

A short letter from me (Mike O’Driscoll) which was published in the i Paper today, highlighting the lack of democratic checks and balances in the Right to Manage legislation which can so easily… Continue reading

Deadline 25th November to join next trenche of claims in Liam Spender/ Velitor group legal action on buildings insurance commission claims

***NB deadline has been extended – applications still being invited as at July 7 2025** The deadline to join the next trenche of claims in the Velitor legal action regarding reclaim of hidden… Continue reading

Freeholders and managing agents face class action over insurance commissions

Freeholders (and managing agents such as Rendall and Rittner) face ”an existential legal onslaught” as lawyers launch a class action over hidden buildings insurance commissions which leaseholders have unknowingly been paying for years.… Continue reading

LKP briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

NB the consultation on ground rents is still ongoing – please respond to it even though it is a clunky survey. Please support the option for ‘set ground rents to peppercorn’ (i.e. ground rents can… Continue reading