As @MikeAmesburyMP steps down as MP in deeply regrettable circumstances, I wanted to take a moment to recognise his outstanding contribution to Leasehold Reform.
Since elected in 2017, he has stood by the NLC every step of the way and stood up for leaseholders at every opportunity.
Thankyou Mike
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There is some hypocrisy on the part of NatWest.
RBS (part of NatWest Group) has a floating charge (a type of commercial mortgage) over buildings in the ARC Time Freehold Income Fund, albeit the £15 million loan secured by that charge is currently undrawn.
NatWest Trustee & Depositary Services (FIT Nominee, FIT Nominee 2 and Freehold Managers (Nominees)) are also the registered legal owners of all the ARC Time buildings.
At least some of those buildings (my own included) have EWS1 certificates signed by TriFire / Kiziak.
Why no new residential lending if NatWest Group is happy to keep the legal ownership and the commercial lending?
Hi @PeterTFortune the cost of these residents' winter fuel bills pale in comparison to the service charges of your constituents paying for the #BuildingSafetyCrisis. You'll be aware that the flats at St Marks Square have eye watering waking watch now. Will you meet with us pls?
In the debate on Building Safety, I outlined how in my constituency I have leaseholders who can’t move or sell their flat.
I urged the government to work at pace to get justice for leaseholders who are innocent in this toxic building safety crisis.
Grenfell style cladding, highly flammable insulation, no fire breaks between windows. No wonder residents at King Edward’s Wharf in Birmingham are worried. Insurance costs have gone up 1000%. Property owners can’t sell because banks won’t lend due to fire dangers. They’re waiting on £12m Govt money to make outside safe, but that won’t pay for worrying internal design errors. @GMB@ITVCentral
The damning Grenfell Tower Inquiry report sets out a "path to disaster" at Grenfell stretching back to the early 1990s affecting how fire safety in high rise buildings has been managed and regulated.
https://t.co/MeDGIEtzzF
A reminder of the shocking story broken by @BBCTomSymonds : Testing commissioned by the then @UKLabour govt in 2004 showed the #cladding was dangerous, but these test results were kept hidden until leaked to the BBC in 2021.
@Keir_Starmer@rushanaraali
https://t.co/hqjouRpw12
"Companies criticised by the Grenfell Tower inquiry are facing calls to be banned from public contracts as it emerged that about £250m in deals have been made in the past five years with corporations involved in the high-rise’s refurbishment."
https://t.co/8vEkU3EyAU
What can one say when such a tragic and defining moment such as #Grenfell is reported to the House and MPs walk away. It’s becoming clearer why 7 years after this tragedy that families are still stuck in unsafe, unsellable homes. Lost for words. I feel for the families attending.
"Nothing brings our family back."
Karim Mussilhy, whose uncle died in Grenfell Tower, says the inquiry into the fire needs to accelerate a real change and it proves the deaths could have been avoided.
A reminder Grenfell is 1 of an estimated 10,000+ tower blocks in the UK most of which are still potential Grenfell2s with half a million people living in them. #Grenfell💚💚💚
" Those people died for no reason other than greed and incompetence. I've got people in my constituency who live in #leasehold flats who now can't sell , can't move and have to pay huge amounts in extra insurance to pay for a fire watcher " #lbc#grenfell
Glad to see the Grenfell Tower Inquiry mirroring two investigations I've done on the disaster.
1. In 2022 leaked documents showing the government had test results for dangerous cladding 13 years before Grenfell
https://t.co/4KBzREdkgn
All those MP’s that left before the Prime Minister address the Grenfell Phase 2 report are shameless.
What was more important than hearing reaction to the biggest residential disaster/failure in modern history, and those responsible being named?
Getting lunch? Getting to the Commons bar first??
Last night in many of their constituencies, residents would’ve gone to bed in homes still wrapped in dangerous cladding.