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
(c) James Riding – Inside Housing 5.3.25 A group of 26 MPs have urged the UK spending watchdog to investigate alleged service chargeabuse by landlords. Mohammad Yasin: “The benefits system is being defrauded… Continue reading
Excellent news on Right to Manage but it’s only half the battle. As someone who has been campaigning for Right to Manage for 5 years (despite CBWRA telling us time and time again… Continue reading
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 Property Institute has released benchmarking data for service charges based on nearly 14,000 properties across 108 developments. There is a lot of interesting data including the Buildings Safety Act costs which TPI… Continue reading
In an update (27.10.23) to all leaseholders at all developments which they ‘manage’ Rendall and Rittner state that ”The Building Safety Act introduces many new rules and duties for the management of fire… Continue reading
The latest email update to leaseholders from CBWRA ‘co-chair’s Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall gave me a good laugh. In their email of 22.10.23 they state: ” We thank you for your… Continue reading
CBWRA announced the results of the ‘fountains consultation’ on 5th September, They state
”A total of 253 leaseholders completed the survey. Of these:
130 voted in favour of submersible pumps
18 voted to turn the fountains back on without changing the pumps
105 voted to leave the fountains out of operation until such a time as they could be replaced.”
very bizarrely CBWRA decided not to give percentages for the results so I am happy to help them out
130 (51.4%) voted in favour of submersible pumps
18 (7.1%) voted to turn the fountains back on without changing the pumps
105 (41.5%) voted to leave the fountains out of operation until such a time as they could be replaced.”
vote AGAINST ratification of committee (because they are not consulting residents, the consultations they do carry out are biased/ leading and the proposed quarterly ‘forums’ are too infrequent and exclude non-leaseholders. Also there is not freedom of speech on the app, and the CBWRA committee misinformed residents about RTM and have not explained or apologised for that). Also that there should be ELECTIONS not ‘ratification’
· VOTE AGAINST the ratification of the constitution because we are only being given 10 days to see it before the meeting (it will only come around on 30 AUG)
· VOTE AGAINST CBWRA fees rise CBWRA have never given any meaningful justification for the 140% increase in fees which they carried out in Feb this year. They claimed it was partly for legal fees to do with RTM but they have also said Urang (the proposed new managing agent) are covering all fees or will recover them through the service charge.
I also encourage residents to consider withholding all payment to CBWRA until they adopt normal standards of governance in respect of fair elections, free speech and resident consultation. #NOSAYNOPAY
Stop CBWRA wasting even more of our money on electricity and endless repairs and maintenance on the fountains – vote for the final option ‘‘I am against spending money on submersible pumps and… Continue reading
