Management company made £11.7m profit after taxes and dividends
Residents haven’t had heating since October
Residents include an 80 year old and mother with newborn baby
Black mould everywhere.
What in the actual fuck. This dystopian freehold system needs a reform now.
fucking Dickensian, housing in this country is disgraceful, and the nickel and diming attitude coming from No 10 downwards isn’t helping.
This sounds exactly like my building APT Parkview in Brentford. Our heating/cooling systems are daisy chained to our neighbours, so if someone doesn’t pay their electricity it turns off all of our systems.
This is happening all over East Village too. Regular complaints about East London Energy (ELE) failing to provide heating and hot water. The tenants/flat owners can’t even change supplier.
If you’re reading this and can’t decide between a zone 2/3 flat or a zone 4 house, take this as your sign. Get a house on the Elizabeth line and the commutes are often comparable (when it’s actually working).
As a leaseholder, your home – and potentially your health – is in the hands of profit seekers.
If you’re in a house and your boiler dies, you at least have the option to choose how quickly you will fix it, what type of replacement it will be, and how much you’re willing to pay. You’re in control of your circumstances.
And you don’t need to worry about the flat above you flooding you. Or them having a defective fridge that catches on fire.
Nearly everyone I know in London has damp problems and have had boiler issues. People from Nordic countries cannot fathom how bad our housing is when they move here.
If this was my building I’d get an electric heater and plug it to an extension cord plugged into the socket in the public area..
My sympathy obviously goes to these people, it sucks to be in the cold for anyone, let alone vulnerable people.
There’s a very important consideration mentioned way down at the end of the article:
>Better Properties Limited, a company representing the freeholder, said the freeholder no longer had any responsibility to manage the building **as the leaseholders had recently decided to take over the building management.**
This scheme exists (Right to Manage), and if it had been indeed applied, then the residents **cease to pay the service charge** to the freeholder/management company and they collectively become responsible for managing all communal issues, utilities, building insurance etc.
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£2,500 per year service charge
Management company made £11.7m profit after taxes and dividends
Residents haven’t had heating since October
Residents include an 80 year old and mother with newborn baby
Black mould everywhere.
What in the actual fuck. This dystopian freehold system needs a reform now.
fucking Dickensian, housing in this country is disgraceful, and the nickel and diming attitude coming from No 10 downwards isn’t helping.
This sounds exactly like my building APT Parkview in Brentford. Our heating/cooling systems are daisy chained to our neighbours, so if someone doesn’t pay their electricity it turns off all of our systems.
This is happening all over East Village too. Regular complaints about East London Energy (ELE) failing to provide heating and hot water. The tenants/flat owners can’t even change supplier.
If you’re reading this and can’t decide between a zone 2/3 flat or a zone 4 house, take this as your sign. Get a house on the Elizabeth line and the commutes are often comparable (when it’s actually working).
As a leaseholder, your home – and potentially your health – is in the hands of profit seekers.
If you’re in a house and your boiler dies, you at least have the option to choose how quickly you will fix it, what type of replacement it will be, and how much you’re willing to pay. You’re in control of your circumstances.
And you don’t need to worry about the flat above you flooding you. Or them having a defective fridge that catches on fire.
Nearly everyone I know in London has damp problems and have had boiler issues. People from Nordic countries cannot fathom how bad our housing is when they move here.
If this was my building I’d get an electric heater and plug it to an extension cord plugged into the socket in the public area..
My sympathy obviously goes to these people, it sucks to be in the cold for anyone, let alone vulnerable people.
There’s a very important consideration mentioned way down at the end of the article:
>Better Properties Limited, a company representing the freeholder, said the freeholder no longer had any responsibility to manage the building **as the leaseholders had recently decided to take over the building management.**
This scheme exists (Right to Manage), and if it had been indeed applied, then the residents **cease to pay the service charge** to the freeholder/management company and they collectively become responsible for managing all communal issues, utilities, building insurance etc.