Blog - Tag Archive for Announcements

By Nige on August 30, 2024 at 6:45 am
Type: News

This is the blog page. This is where we share longer articles, which aim to share important concepts and ideas. It is also the general page for showing author, category, tag and time-based archives.

This is an archive showing posts assigned to tag: Announcements.

Update on Recovery of FirstPort Expenses

By Nige on February 28, 2023 at 11:25 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort

We have had no response from Bloor recently in respect to the recovery of costs we have incurred from FirstPort. We assume others are in the same boat. We would expect we will soon receive the annual charge from FirstPort – it’s normally early Feb (if we recall correctly), since the “year” runs from start […]

The Technical Foundation for Our Website

By Nige on February 27, 2023 at 2:11 pm
Type: Post Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Website

Some residents may be interested to know more about how our website has been developed and how it will be run moving forward. This blog post is for you! Anyone not interested, can move along to the next blog post or a different page now!

Discussions with FirstPort and Bloor Homes

By Nige on February 14, 2023 at 11:33 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort

For awareness, we have exchanged emails with the new Property Manager at FirstPort. They have been on site; we can only assume at the invitation of Bloor Homes. We have recommended they spend no more time working on the development on the basis that it will simply lead to expenses that FirstPort will pass on […]

Content of Email from FirstPort

By Nige on February 10, 2023 at 11:30 am
Type: News Category: Estate Management
Tags: Announcements | FirstPort

As promised, this is the content of the email from FirstPort: CIRCULAR – CHANGE OF PROPERTY MANAGER As Managing Agents for your development, we am writing to you to introduce myself as the new Property Manager for the scheme. The reason for the Change of Property Manager, is to ensure that as a business we […]

Email from FirstPort

By Nige on February 10, 2023 at 11:29 am
Type: News Category: Estate Management
Tags: Announcements | FirstPort

We assume everyone has received an email from FirstPort advising of a change in property manager. We will paste the content in a separate post for completeness. Ignore the email – it adds no value to The Dovecote and is completely irrelevant. Just a reminder that there is NO NEED to register on the FirstPort portal. Our […]

An Intro to The Dovecote Residents’ Association Website

By Nige on February 1, 2023 at 6:59 pm
Type: Post Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Website

We have only been around for just under 3 years, but we finally have a website to give the residents some additional focus on activities going on in and around The Dovecote.

Response to Bloor Deputy MD

By Nige on January 23, 2023 at 11:22 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes

Our response to the Deputy MD of Bloor Homes, South Midlands: Deputy MD, Many thanks for your response. Your reference to “…our former development…” is interesting. Since Bloor is very much still responsible for the development and is likely to continue to be responsible for a good amount of time to come. For Bloor Homes, […]

Update on Recovery of FirstPort Expenses

By Nige on January 19, 2023 at 11:27 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort

Anyone received any further comms from Bloor? If they don’t confirm they will pay by end of today, we need to issue Letters Before Action to Bloor on Friday (as threatened in our last comms) to demonstrate we are serious. It may be that although Bloor gave in to us (we were only looking for […]

Email from Bloor Deputy Managing Director

By Nige on December 6, 2022 at 11:18 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes

We have just received an email from the Deputy MD of Bloor Homes South Midlands. It relates to our request for a generic Deed of Variation to avoid mortgage challenges for residents in the future. Ultimately the response is disappointing (but unsurprising), but there are lots of entertaining elements in there as well. I’ve included […]

Handover Delays Continue

By Nige on November 24, 2022 at 11:13 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council

We continue to hear nothing from the council over handover. As previously reported, we have held two pre-inspection meetings in the past 12 months or so. The first was in Oct 2021 (ish) and the last one was held on 1st March 2022. Since then, the council have done nothing and currently (as we understand […]