Blog - Tag Archive for Bloor Homes

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

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: Bloor Homes.

Items relating to Bloor Homes Ltd, the construction company responsible for creating The Dovecote.

Who is Responsible for Maintenance Pre-Handover?

By Nige on May 23, 2023 at 8:04 am
Type: Post Category: Maintenance
Tags: Bloor Homes | Management Company | Management Plan

It's been over two years since Bloor Homes sold the final property on The Dovecote. So understandably, residents are asking about who's responsible for maintaining the Public Open Space (POS) at The Dovecote.

First Cut of the New Season

By Nige on April 10, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Type: News Category: Maintenance
Tags: Bloor Homes | Green and Growing

Spring has officially sprung with the first cut of the grass undertaken by Green and Growing on Easter Sunday. Green and Growing are engaged by Bloor Homes to keep the grass under control. We track maintenance undertaken on site via the website’s Maintenance Log, primarily to ensure the POS is being maintained in line with […]

Bloor, FirstPort and the Management Company – Who are They?

By Nige on March 11, 2023 at 5:16 pm
Type: Post Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort | Management Company

We have written a lot about these three mythical beings, but do you understand who they are and what the relationship is between them? And why they are significant?

Service Charges – Claiming Back from Bloor Homes

By Nige on March 10, 2023 at 6:28 am
Type: Post Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes

Residents have been receiving service charges from Chamonix and/or FirstPort for a number of years now, but do residents realise that they can claim these costs back from Bloor Homes?

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]