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‘We can’t sell our flat and can’t afford to live in it’ – shared owners worst hit by service charge hikes

Tara Welsh, BBC London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkvkv32e1ro The sky-rocketing charges faced by tenants and residents for the service element of their monthly bills amount to an “industrial-scale scandal”, a support group has told BBC London.… Continue reading

Rendall and Rittner replaced at Battersea Reach

Rendall and Rittner have been replaced as managing agent at Battersea Reach, London SW11 as a letter to residents from the freeholder announced on 23rd February. Rendall and Rittner have been at Battersea… 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

CBWRA finally forced to reply to complaints of electoral misconduct

Six weeks after my complaint to CBWRA about electoral misconduct in the 2023 Chair elections. I finally received an acknowledgment and an (excuse for) a reply – a few paragraphs of meaningless waffle… Continue reading

An email to the Chairs and Secretary of the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association

From Mike O’Driscoll: (Warwick leaseholder) Dear Katherine Greenaway (CBWRA Secretary), Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall (CBWRA ‘Chairs’)  The elected term of the current Chairs expires within the next 2 weeks. Can… Continue reading

Omnishambles: The current CBWRA committee are not fit to lead, in my view and we need genuine elections now

The serving of the RTM notice on the freeholders is very welcome, albeit 2 years late and coming from people (Larisa Villar Hauser and Louis Sebastian Kendall) who were until recently telling residents… Continue reading

Freeholders make belated attempt to assess support for Rendall and Rittner

Following the serving of Right to Manage notices on the freeholders, E&M (the freeholder for Centurion, Eustace, Horace, Howard and Oswald buildings) is trying to carry out a leaseholder ‘satisfaction survey’ which is… 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

Leasehold – the documentary is released

https://www.leaseholddoc.com LEASEHOLD is the new 42-minute documentary which tells the story of the millions of leaseholders now trapped in their own homes, unable to sell or move apartment. The programme examines the need… Continue reading

CBWRA violates its own constitution- again

The notes of the CBWRA committee meeting of 21st Jan 2024 state that Chair elections were postponed to ‘quarter 2’ of 2024 (i.e. the end of June) after a vote of the committee.… Continue reading