Make Your Voice Heard :  Leaseholder meeting with Urang & unelected RTM Directors Mon. 15th Sep 6.30 pm – at Pestana or Online

Just a reminder to all leaseholders that there is a meeting with Urang and the unelected RTM company directors tomorrow, Mon. 15th Sep 6.30 pm – at Pestana or Online Despite RTM, you… Continue reading →

Government consultation on Leasehold Reform – Closes 26th September – please have your say – the freeholders certainly will!

The UK Government’s July 2025 Leasehold Reform Consultation claims to outline major changes to empower leaseholders and end outdated, unfair leasehold practices in England and Wales. Built on the foundation of the Leasehold… Continue reading →

Our Petition is Cited in Government Letter to Rendall and Rittner! Answers demanded by 11th July.

Following Rendall and Rittner’s appearance before MPs in May, which I attended as an observer, they have now been called on by the Housing, Communities and local Government Committee to answer some key questions… Continue reading →

Chelsea Bridge Wharf RTM director resigns – Still no answers from Urang on the fundamental questions at Chelsea Bridge Wharf

Urang and the RTM directors need to answer these questions: So much for Urang’s ‘new era of transparency’. If you would like to leave a review for Urang on Trustpilot (good or bad) the… Continue reading →

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No answers from CBWRA on the dodgy Chair 2024 elections, even dodgier than the 2023 Chair elections?

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →