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
Woodchester Valley Village: this is what can be achieved when a retirement site manages itself
February 11, 2015 By
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 […]
New chief executives for Peverel / FirstPort property management companies
February 2, 2015 By
This is just on the Knight Square website. Janet Entwistle is chief executive of Knight Square, which controls the group. New CEO and MD appointments at FirstPort Following the successful launch of FirstPort to unite all property services businesses under one brand, Nigel Howell has been appointed as CEO of FirstPort and Keith Shields as […]
Andy Davey promoted. He headed Cirrus during Peverel’s price-fixing
January 28, 2015 By
Andy Davey, Peverel’s former head of business excellence and Cirrus executive, has been appointed MD of Appello Davey was the head of operations for Cirrus from 2002 and became head of the business from 2007 to 2009. The Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing scandal involved cheating pensioners at 65 sites by installing Cirrus equipment through bogus […]
Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation at Number 10
January 27, 2015 By
LKP / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation were invited to 10 Downing Street for a meeting this afternoon to discuss the leasehold sector and the need for reform. Every area of the sector was discussed – including, at length, retirement housing – at a meeting that was held at the request of Sir Peter Bottomley, […]
Roger Southam ‘conflict of interest’ as LEASE chair, leaseholder tells housing minister
January 26, 2015 By
A leaseholder in north London today has written to Housing Minister Brandon Lewis saying that the appointment of Roger Southam as chairman of LEASE creates a “serious conflict of interest”. Agnes Kory, who copied her email in to MPs Glenda Jackson MP and Sir Peter Bottomley, as well as the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, lives at […]
All Peverel companies applying to ARMA-Q
January 22, 2015 By
Statement from Peverel received this morning: All of our ARMA members have applied for ARMA-Q accreditation. These applications are currently being processed by ARMA. Peverel Retirement has applied for ARMA membership and this application is also being processed by ARMA. The statement concerning Peverel companies does not address Peverel retirement referred to the ARMA regulator Keith […]
Now we are told Countrywide is STILL an ARMA member … well, until February 1
January 21, 2015 By
Staff working overtime to process applications “to take our members on a journey …” LKP / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation has received a statement at 11.14am today from ARMA addressing its peculiar manner of announcing the membership of ARMA-Q. Previously, we were informed that any company that had not applied to the more rigorous […]
