Category Archive: Service charges

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.

Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Survey 2021

The initial report from the above survey is now available here OVERVIEW FINDINGS CBW as a place to live A large majority of respondents (80.1%) agree /strongly agree that ‘CBW is a good… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner Action Network

The Rendall and Rittner Action Network (RRAN) is a collaboration of residents in Rendall and Rittner managed developments, working together to share information and strategies in order to combat unreasonable service charges and… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner ‘Late Payment’ charges rise by 277%

The author of this blog noted in early May 2021, while helping a resident with a query about service charges, that the Rendall and Rittner ‘late payment fee’ had mysteriously risen from £18… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner stand to make £20-40 million from contracts around cladding remedial work

An article in the Sunday Times on 21st March 2021 exposes how Rendall and Rittner stand to make tens of millions of pounds from contracts around cladding remedial work, some of which, it… Continue reading

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

Residents at ‘One Stratford’ development withholding service charges as protest against Rendall & Rittner

  2 reviews 3 days ago One Stratford: AVOID at all costs, investigate if you are stuck with them. Rendall & Rittner manage a development in East London, One Stratford. Residents (~ 90)… Continue reading

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

BBC story : Imprisoned by cladding: The flat owners who cannot sell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51412328# Thousands of people in the UK are living in flats they cannot sell, because the outside wall is covered in cladding. Sometimes it’s combustible, like the material that turned Grenfell Tower into… Continue reading

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