Category Archive: profiteering

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Please join online meetings on how to get Right to Manage at Chelsea Bridge Wharf – November 30th 7-8pm and December 1st 1-2pm

Dear CBW residents
Are you tired of paying huge service charge increases?
Do you want a better level of estate upkeep and service?

Please join one of our online meetings — find out how we can get Right to Manage, choose our own managing agent and take back control of our development. The meetings feature a short presentation by Canonbury Estate Management
followed by a Question and Answer session

All residents welcome! Contact residents@chelseabridgewharf.org.uk if any questions

November 30th 7-8pm
Zoom link https://qrco.de/bdWj64
You should not need a passcode but if asked please enter TrK6yG

December 1st 1-2pm
Zoom link https://qrco.de/bdWjbi

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Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Newsletter – Summer 2022

The Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association (CBWRA) have claimed RTM is not achievable at CBW – experts say otherwise! Independent expert advice obtained by residents in June 2022 shows that CBW can achieve Right to Manage (https://tinyurl.com/28dht6ya) and therefore it appears CBWRA has misinformed residents in stating that Right to Manage is not possible at CBW.

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12th August – 6.30pm : The residents’ meeting with no interaction

Rendall and Rittner have decided to hold the twice yearly so called ‘residents’ meeting’ purely online.  A justifiable decision perhaps, due to COVID19 but what is not  justifiable is making the meeting ‘broadcast… Continue reading →

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325% (three hundred and twenty five per cent) increase in RENDALL AND RITTNER DIVIDENDS to shareholders

Rendall and Rittner 2019 accounts deposited at Companies House on 14th May 2020 show a 325% year on year increase on the dividends paid to shareholders (from £121,410 in 2018 to £515,920 in… Continue reading →

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Rendall and Rittner – service charges for 2020 go up by 17% at Chelsea Bridge Wharf (30% increase over 2 years)

On 28th Feb I received the latest service charge demand from Rendall and Rittner. The quarterly service charge from 1 April 2020 (1 bedroom flat in Warwick building)  is £710.19  representing a 17%… Continue reading →

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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 →

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Residents’ Satisfaction Survey: more dishonesty, excuses and obfuscation from Rendall and Rittner

More than a  year on from the closure of the residents’ satisfaction survey and residents have still not been given the results by Rendall and Rittner. At a residents’ meeting on 25th September… Continue reading →

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Rendall and Rittner – 17.5% service charge increase

In April 2018, without resident consultation, collection of service charges for Warwick Building was transferred from L&Q housing association to Rendall & Rittner. The author of this blog has confirmed that service charges… Continue reading →

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Protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market: call for evidence

The government consultation on cracking down on abuses by managing agents and letting agents closes today at 11.45 pm https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/protecting-consumers-in-the-letting-and-managing-agent-market-call-for-evidence Residents are encouraged to give their views about Rendall and Rittner’s management at… Continue reading →

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Battersea Power Station traffic speeding through pedestrians – Rendall & Rittner not interested

Rendall & Rittner are responsible for managing this road but have allowed it to become dangerous. Despite numerous resident requests they claim they can do nothing about the fact that 100% of the… Continue reading →