Leaseholders in Hendon are being made to feel like cash cows by managing agents who hike service charges but provide poor service in return.
FirstPort are the country’s largest management agent, and one of the worst offenders.
Today, I chaired a meeting between dozens of Labour MPs and the Managing Director of FirstPort to hold their feet to the fire and demand they change 👇
🔴 We recently met with @rushanaraali, the new @mhclg Minister for Building Safety.
Find out what was discussed in today's long read 👇
#EndOurCladdingScandal
https://t.co/p4Yc8I5Iie
Dear @Barrattplc
The residents of Royal Artillery Quays want ALL the flammable material off our buildings and an EWS1 A1 rating.
We do not want your proposed B1 rating and permanently high insurance. This is not an insurance industry issue, this is because flammable material is being left on our buildings!
Katrina's powerful video below ⬇️
#JournoRequest #BuildingSafetyCrisis @mtpennycook@Lees_Martina@MelissaLawford@melyork@NRLAssociation@michaelgove@MikeAmesburyMP
🎙️Thank you @BenKentish for highlighting the many parallels between the cladding scandal and the #PostOfficeScandal on your show last night
📻 Missed Ben's show on @LBC?
▶️Catch up now [from 1h03min]
https://t.co/08nAlDmrqn
#EndOurCladdingScandal
2️⃣ years since Michael Gove’s reset.
💰 We're still paying to fix problems we didn’t cause.
⌛ The firms that profited still sit on their hands.
❌ Promises to make product manufacturers pay “instead of leaseholders” have been broken.
Innocent leaseholders are #StillTrapped
EXCL: The Labour council accused of overcharging residents thousands of pounds for services that hardly happened - and ignoring warnings about collapsing balconies.
My @BBCNewsnight investigation with @jasmin_dyer@liamweir14@jackwgarland:
💸 It is not just offshore freeloaders 💸
If England’s local councils are shafting flat owners with opaque, padded and even fictitious service charges, we know it is the leasehold system which needs binning.
This isn’t about a few rogues or bad apples.
Well done, @MattLismore!
2/9 The Landmark Investments / TLT update is possibly the worst take I've seen so far.
It pips that from a surveyor sporting a Trumpian orange tan who seemed to think the European Court of Human Rights is part of the legislative process.
1/9 Entirely unsurprising vampiric freeholders are showing their true bully boy colours over #leaseholdreform
Threatening to sue the government if they do not get their way is exactly the same high-handed treatment they dole out to residential leaseholders daily.
Here’s the rub:
*don’t invest in assets that have no intrinsic value*
If you do, you’re making a bad investment, and that’s on you
The value of investment can go down as well as up
Innocent is a strong word to apply to bottom-feeding scum like the members of the Residential Freehold Association.
None of your members had any issue passing on costs to the only entirely innocent party, being leaseholders.
🔴 Next session of oral questions to @luhc ministers in parliament will take place on 16 October.
❗MPs need to table questions by Tuesday lunchtime
🚨 If you want your MP to ask a question about something that matters to you, email them ASAP 👇
https://t.co/6h5hrH9SNM
@mrjamesob@MayorofLondon doesn't know the no. of buildings in London impacted with serious fire safety defects. Buildings in a similar condition to Grenfell. Why not? And how does he plan to fix them when he doesn't know the scale of the crisis? #EndOurCladdingScandal
Looking to speak to home sellers who have reduced their asking price to get a sale for a piece in today's @theipaper
If you're in this position or you have a client in this position, please send a DM or an email to [email protected]#journorequest
🔴 NEW:
Today we are resetting our campaign to give a clear focus on what needs to happen next to end this scandal for good.
Our letter to @MichaelGove 👇
https://t.co/SNmYapRUe0
#EndOurCladdingScandal
“I’ve worked really, really hard, seven days a week, to raise my children and pay the mortgage, then to find out I don’t own it – it’s horrendous”
@Anoosh_C speaks to fed-up leaseholders who are pushing for radical change on housing.
Thread ⬇️
https://t.co/k3pR6EkJKP
🚨 NEW LEAKED DOCUMENT 🚨
I've obtained a previously unreleased document which reveals Grenfell insulation manufacturer Saint Gobain had research showing its product released high levels of toxic smoke 18 months before fire:
https://t.co/NadVl2R3zE