The Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation (Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation) exists to protect the elderly in leasehold flats and to help create a fair and healthy retirement housing market. It is part of the wider Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, which is a registered charity (registration above). Retirement leasehold is a sector with a poor […]
Archives for February 2015
How we got rid of Peverel and Girling’s advertising boards
February 26, 2015 By
Anyone else having issues of this sort? A reader writes: After some sustained and determined pressure we have managed to get the Peverel / Girlings advertising sign taken down from the communal area of our development as this was in clear breach of the terms of the original lease. It is of note that the […]
Tchenguiz’s £2.2bn compo claim ‘liberally interspersed with assertions of fraud, falsity, dishonesty and improper motive’, says judge
February 26, 2015 By
(Sounds like an email to Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation from an aggrieved leaseholder …) Vincent Tchenguiz’s £2.2 billion legal action against accountants Grant Thornton has suffered a set-back as his documentation was described by a judge as “too long and failed to make clear the facts of the case”. Tchenguiz wants compo from Grant […]
Metcalfe Court overcomes 11th-hour frustrations to break free of Tchenguiz and Peverel
February 24, 2015 By
The long-running saga for right to manage at Metcalfe Court, in Romiley in Cheshire, has at last come to an end and the pensioner residents are now rid of the Tchenguiz-appointed Peverel / FirstPort management. On February 20, the management of the site passed to family-run Macclesfield firm Jones Associates, which is accredited to the […]
Watch out! There’s a lease running out
February 23, 2015 By
Michael Hollands was appalled to discover the expense and difficulty involved in extending a lease in a retirement site There is one culprit in this unsatisfactory leasehold system that can end up being a big cost to leaseholders, particularly those who reside in retirement complexes: an even bigger cost than inflated management charges or exit […]
Cycle ride to celebrate the life of Neil Dalton
February 19, 2015 By
By Sebastian O’Kelly Please could I ask all those who have been helped by Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation to sponsor me in a two-day cycle ride across the Pennines to celebrate the life of medical student Neil Dalton, 22. Neil was murdered last summer in Sarawak, Borneo, with his friend Aidan Brunger.
Woodchester Valley Village: this is what can be achieved when a retirement site manages itself
February 11, 2015 By
The Daily Mail today runs an article about Woodchester Valley Village: thought to be the only mutually owned retirement village in the country. The village, four miles outside Stroud, has been in other publications such as the BBC and the Guardian, here
Law Commission investigates retirement transfer fees
February 10, 2015 By
The Law Commission is reporting its work into the issue of retirement leasehold exit fee here Anyone who has paid these fees, can contact the Law Commission on this email address: transfer_fees@lawcommission.gsi.gov.uk Following a considerable amount of activity by Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, the issue of exit and subletting fees was taken up by […]
Re-energised LEASE annual conference 2015
February 10, 2015 By
A re-energised and confident Leasehold Advisory Service held its LEASE annual conference 2015 in central London last Wednesday. It was a gathering of some of the brightest – perhaps most socially engaged – of the players in the professional leasehold world: lawyers, surveyors, property tribunal judges, property managers. For the third time – and it […]
Service charges increase by £40,000 in ten years at Arkle Court, says resident
February 6, 2015 By
We have received the following from Ged Walsh, of Arkle Court, Chester: Dear Sirs, Madams and Readers I write as a pensioner homeowner living in a Retirement Block built in 2000 by McCarthy & Stone with freeholders Fairhold Homes (No4) Ltd and Peverel / FirstPort as the Service Managers. We purchased our flat in 2003 […]
Janet Entwistle stands down at Peverel
February 3, 2015 By
… aka Knight Square and FirstPort UPDATE: Feb 6 2015: The initial headline on this article, “Janet Entwistle is given the push at Peverel” was factually inaccurate, we are informed. The following statement to LKP / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation has been received this afternoon: Janet Entwistle to stand down as CEO of Knight […]
Packed Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation / LKP meeting at Westminster for leasehold reform
February 3, 2015 By
Seventy key figures in the leasehold sector – including some battle-scarred leaseholders – attended a packed Westminster on Thursday January 29 to hear how leasehold could be reformed. The meeting was hosted by MPs Sir Peter Bottomley and Jim Fitzpatrick, and chaired by Martin Boyd, of LKP / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation. It included presentations […]
