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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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Nige
on November 24, 2022
at 11:12 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council
Following a lot of hard work by the team looking into how we best spend the £47k arts funding that we have available to us, our council rep has suggested that we can’t actually progress with this until the Management Company (MC) takes over responsibility for the Public Open Space (POS), so effectively it’s all […]
By Nige
on October 3, 2022
at 11:06 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council
Sorry for the long delay since the last update! Not a great deal happening recently from a Bloor Homes perspective, but there has been some movement in the last few days. So what’s the status of the handover between Bloor Homes and the Management Company we hear you ask? Latest update is below: Feel free […]
By Nige
on June 22, 2022
at 11:00 am
Type: News
Category: Estate Management
Tags: Announcements | Roads
We have had an email from a resident in regards to the main crossroads at Virgate/Furlongs/Lammas Land. Specifically highlighting a concern over speeding and/or general driving without due care of others. This ties in with others’ concerns over speeding on site by delivery drivers and others, raised on the FB group. Is there anything we […]
By Nige
on June 15, 2022
at 10:56 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council
Final reminder about the Arts Teams meeting at 7pm. For those who may have checked, the Teams meeting will open at 6:30pm for our council reps and us to catch up ahead of 7pm. If everyone else joins at around 7pm, we can get started promptly. If anyone struggles with the link in the Facebook […]
