Category Archive: Right to Manage

Leasehold Reforms Become Law

Homeowners will receive more rights, power and protections over their homes under the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act which has become law today. The Act will make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner featured in BBC’s ‘Rip Off Britain’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001zhps/rip-off-britain-series-16-4-paying-1-per-mile-for-car-insurance Residents at New Little Mill development in Ancoats, Manchester tell a story which will be familiar to most leaseholders at Rendall and Rittner managed developments. Inflated service charges, unclear statements. It is… Continue reading

The CBWRA 2024 AGM – once again a desperation to restrict resident involvement

Residents were sent the following email (below) re the AGM by CBWRA ‘co-chairs’ Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall, who changed the constitution in September 2023 resulting in only 9% of leaseholders… 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

Right to Manage Notice served on Freeholders at Chelsea Bridge Wharf. Now we must deal with the banana republic of CBWRA.

The freeholders at CBW have been served with a Right to Manage notice which is very good news, albeit two years later than it need have been. There is a long way to… 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

Right to Manage Contract with Urang was not approved by CBWRA Committee

The contract with Urang to prepare the Right to Manage application for Chelsea Bridge Wharf , and to take over as managing agent if the application is successful, was not approved by the… Continue reading

”Commonhold Now” Report Goes Live: Misaligned Incentives

Anti-leasehold grassroots campaign group, Commonhold Now, releases vital policy report on 1st November 2023 with easily deliverable law changes to liberate England’s millions of flat leaseholders and to hand them rightful control of… 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.