Category Archive: Right to Manage

Urang Still Refuse to Explain keeping their Chelsea Bridge Wharf Contract secret, the delays in elections, why no election procedure published and why they seem to be ignoring leaseholders’ priorities to reduce service charges

Tony Hymers of Urang is unable or unwilling to give meaningful answers to any of these questions. The idea that Urang will create  a new era of transparency is beyond ridiculous. Urang are… Continue reading

Government consultation on Leasehold Reform – Closes 26th September – please have your say – the freeholders certainly will!

The UK Government’s July 2025 Leasehold Reform Consultation claims to outline major changes to empower leaseholders and end outdated, unfair leasehold practices in England and Wales. Built on the foundation of the Leasehold… Continue reading

First Chelsea Bridge Wharf Leaseholders’ meeting with Urang – have we dialled the wrong number?

If you attended the meeting with Urang at BPS on 9th June, I would be interested to hear what you thought of it. In my view there were some good questions from leaseholders… Continue reading

2025 Open Letter to Rendall and Rittner from the Rendall and Rittner Action Network

Rendall and Rittner – fiddling while Rome burns? In 2020, a collective of leaseholders wrote to Rendall and Rittner to express their growing concerns about the way in which Rendall & Rittner manage… Continue reading

Urang bizarrely claim ‘new era of transparency’ at Chelsea Bridge Wharf – but leaseholders cannot even see the contract with Urang and little prospect of fair elections

In a rather bizarre and laughable email to leaseholders on 9th May, Urang (the managing agent which will take over from Rendall and Rittner in under a week) announced their first meeting with… Continue reading

Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association refuses to deal with complaint about electoral manipulation – Leaseholders still not able to see contract with Urang

Rendall and Rittner ‘invited’ to Answer Questions in Parliament as Nationwide Petition Nears 6,000 Signatures

Rendall and Rittner have accepted an ‘invitation’ by Labour MPs to be interviewed in Parliament on May 22nd to answer questions about their performance and conduct, following complaints from a considerable number of… Continue reading

Still no elections, still no sight of the contract with Urang or what their plan is. Arbitrary ban on CBW app continues.

The Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association announced on 28th Feb 2025 that they will hold elections for Directors of the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Right to Manage Company, which will take over running of… 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