Representing leaseholders in Birmingham affected by the nationwide cladding / fire safety scandal - [email protected]
West Midlands
Joined February 2020
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BrumLAG retweeted
🙏 @YasinForBedford for your support
Raising plight of innocent #NonQualifyingLH
👉£000s for building safety for others’ failures
👉 28 days to pay or risk forfeiture
👉Unable to sell post remediation
BSA trapping LH’s &stalling housing mkt
⚖️@AngelaRayner @mhclg
BrumLAG retweeted
Why don’t flats sell anymore?
The Times highlights soaring service charges and the building safety crisis.
Nearly a decade after Grenfell, mortgage barriers and endless remediation delays continue to destroy lives and livelihoods.
The market for apartments is in freefall ― but some types are still in demand. We look at the properties buyers want ― and those struggling to sell
thetimes.com/life-style/prop…
BrumLAG retweeted
The Remediation Bill is here.
We cannot support it in its current form.
Nearly a decade after Grenfell, innocent people are still paying for others’ failures.
Labour must turn words into action: make homes fully safe and hold those responsible to account.
Our statement ⬇️
BrumLAG retweeted
A fatal fire at Neutron Tower. Residents forced from their homes.
Tasha, a shared owner, is still paying £1,540 a month in rent and service charges, plus her mortgage, for a flat she cannot live in.
Years of remediation delays. Now displacement and more financial pain.
BrumLAG retweeted
Nearly 10 years after Grenfell, why is Government still debating how much fire risk residents should tolerate?
Leaving flammable cladding in place and non-cladding defects unresolved will not end this crisis.
Is it too much to ask that homes are made fully safe and sellable?
Residents fear new rules could mean dangerous cladding is left on blocks of flats bbc.in/4hUIYBx
BrumLAG retweeted
“It’s like prison.”
Stacey has been unable to sell for eight years, losing five sales because of unsafe cladding.
Even after a reassessment, high ground rent & service charges mean she remains trapped.
She’d now accept £1 to escape.
This is what political failure looks like.
ALT Screenshot of text from the article linked in the next post. In summary, Stacey has been unable to sell her leasehold flat. She says her son and daughter share a bedroom, but this must change as her son turns 10, forcing her and her night-working husband to sleep in the front room. The article says buyers struggle to obtain mortgages because the ground rent exceeds £250 a year or contains a doubling clause, while the service charge is nearly £2,200 annually. Stacey tried auctioning the flat for £120,000 but received no bids and later reduced the asking price to £125,000. She says: “We’re just stuck here – we have tried everything” and describes the situation as “like being in prison”.
BrumLAG retweeted
90 days. That’s the industry standard for a handover like this.
FirstPort property management has taken 500 days, with residents’ money tied up & services disrupted. Enough is enough.
Read more: preetkaurgill.co.uk/post/500…
Great to meet @RichParkerLab @WestMids_CA @WestMidsFire and @BhamCityCouncil yesterday to discuss the Local Remediation Acceleration Plan. Leaseholders and residents must be placed at the heart of remediation. @AngelaRayner @AlexJJNorris @EOCS_Official wmca.org.uk/what-we-do/housi…
BrumLAG retweeted
Ground Rents Income Fund and Long Harbour are two of the freeholders currently in the High Court complaining about their human rights being infringed.
Please do join the claim at leaseholderaction.com
BREAKING: We have issued legal letters to four of the UK's largest freeholders: E&J Estates, Long Harbour, Consensus Business Group and Ground Rents Income Fund plc.
The ultimate beneficiaries of some of these companies are amongst the wealthiest people in the UK.
Read the @BBCNews article below 👇
#LeaseholdScandal #LeaseholdReform #LeaseholderAction #Leasehold @BBCMBuchanan
BrumLAG retweeted
BREAKING: We have issued legal letters to four of the UK's largest freeholders: E&J Estates, Long Harbour, Consensus Business Group and Ground Rents Income Fund plc.
The ultimate beneficiaries of some of these companies are amongst the wealthiest people in the UK.
Read the @BBCNews article below 👇
#LeaseholdScandal #LeaseholdReform #LeaseholderAction #Leasehold @BBCMBuchanan
Flat owners planning legal claim over 'secret' insurance charges bbc.in/44y4NQO
BrumLAG retweeted
A year since @UKLabour came to power with manifesto commitments to fix the cladding and building safety scandal.
But on the ground, nothing has changed.
Our @BritSafe opinion piece 👇
britsafe.org/safety-manageme…
BrumLAG retweeted
🗨️ "It's an absolute disgrace"
❌ Debt and despair for Oldham residents locked out of their homes for 5 years.
@AlexJJNorris @AngelaRayner What's the plan?
📺 @ITVGranadaTV
youtu.be/-TwvF0h2euw?feature…
BrumLAG retweeted
👩🚒 How does the Building Safety Regulator engage with residents, campaigners and fire authorities?
Tomorrow, we continue our inquiry into building safety regulation by hearing from @GilesGrover, @LiamSpender and @LondonFire.
Read more 👇 committees.parliament.uk/eve…
BrumLAG retweeted
Hundreds of families were told their balconies were safe. Six experts tell @BBCLondonNews : they never were.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvm…
BrumLAG retweeted
Survivors, witnesses and experts speak on the tragedy that took 72 lives.
GRENFELL: UNCOVERED is now playing.
BrumLAG retweeted
"The president of the US company that made the cladding on Grenfell Tower knew it was dangerous two years before the fire that claimed 72 lives".
@arconic
#JusticeForOur72
thetimes.com/article/6f40864…
BrumLAG retweeted
This time next year, Grenfell Tower will have disappeared from the London skyline.
We thank the thousands who joined us to to mark the 8 year anniversary, giving us the hope that you won't let Grenfell be forced out of sight and out of mind before Justice comes 💚
BrumLAG retweeted
Anatomy of a Firetrap:
Will broadcast on Radio 4 at 8pm tonight.
Available on BBC Sounds now: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bs…
Sneak peak here: