{"id":340456,"date":"2025-08-13T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340456\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:24:14","slug":"birmingham-leaseholders-hit-with-unfair-200k-energy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340456\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham leaseholders hit with &#8216;unfair&#8217; \u00a3200k energy bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Gas, which no longer supplies the Latitude complex, told the BBC it &#8220;remained engaged&#8221; with the managing agent over what it described as &#8220;historical unpaid energy bills dating back to 2020&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was despite residents being told by Centrick, via a newsletter seen by the BBC, that the bills dated back to 2014. The company has been asked for clarification. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Wilkie accused the management companies of being disingenuous, lackadaisical and unprofessional, while questioning how the bills can be passed from one firm to another over the past nine years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of the residents haven&#8217;t been here that long and it&#8217;s simply unfair to pay,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of leaseholders told the BBC they intended to seek legal advice with a view to contesting the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Gas, which no longer supplies the Latitude complex, told the BBC it &#8220;remained engaged&#8221; with the managing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115020029352269917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}