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CBWRA – still no answers Chair Election procedure and why there are no elections for Directors of the Right to Manage Company
My email to CBWRA today on the Chair Election procedures. I am sure that I will get a prompt, professional and meaningful reply. 🙂 24th March 2024 Dear CBWRA, Larisa Villar Hauser, Louis… Continue reading
The Londoners who are on service charge ‘strike’
Tarah Welsh, BBC London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce7x901l8pko Last week, BBC London reported on the soaring service charges faced by tenants and residents, some of whom have seen their monthly bill rise by hundreds of pounds… Continue reading
Chelsea Bridge Wharf – Right to Manage, Chair elections, and the need for change in CBWRA
There is a lot happening at Chelsea Bridge Wharf with Right to Manage, Chair elections and most importantly ever increasing service charges. In this short video I do my best to summarise the… Continue reading
A letter to the Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents’ Association on the 2024 Chair Elections and Right to Manage
18th March 2024 From Mike O’DriscollWarwick leaseholderTo: CBWRA ‘Co-Chairs’ Larisa Villar Hauser, Louis Sebastian Kendall Thank you for your email to leaseholders regarding the Chair elections 2024. It is a shame that as with the 2023 elections,… Continue reading
CBWRA 2024 Chair Elections – the further adventures of a Banana republic
In the February committee meeting notes CBWRA claim they had ‘dealt with’ a complaint which I (Mike O’Driscoll) had submitted on the 15th January regarding the misconduct of the 2023 Chair elections. The truth… Continue reading
‘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