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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.
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 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 July 12, 2022
at 11:04 am
Type: News
Category: Maintenance
Tags: Bloor Homes
For awareness, we have heard from a few people about concerns over the landscape maintenance, including a lack of weeding (thanks for taking this on Paul), the need to keep the balancing pond growth under control, weeds on the block paved roads and now a note about ragwort on the east edge of the Dovecote […]
By Nige
on June 13, 2022
at 10:54 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes | Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council
Reminder about two things:
By Nige
on May 21, 2022
at 10:00 am
Type: News
Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort
For those interested in the charges being imposed by FirstPort as Managing Agent when the Management Company (MC) currently has no responsibility for the Public Open Space (POS), we have a (possibly) positive update. On behalf of one household (i.e. not in relation to the Residents’ Association), we submitted a speculative complaint to Bloor Homes […]
By Nige
on February 27, 2022
at 9:49 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council
We received a voice mail on Friday @ 4:30pm to say there is an inspection meeting next Tue afternoon @ 2pm. We were invited to attend if we were available. Shame we couldn’t have had a bit more notice… We have consequently sent an email back to the Bloor Adoptions Manager, strongly emphasizing the residents’ […]
By Nige
on February 1, 2022
at 9:47 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council
In respect to the state of the paths, we have been in contact with VWHDC and they have provided the following information to help us challenge Bloor about the state of the paths: We am going to send this on to Bloor’s Adoption Manager and will highlight this as a fundamental issue that will prevent […]
By Nige
on January 20, 2022
at 9:46 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes
You will have noticed that the trees are being replaced. We are not quite sure why they are not planting the new trees in the same place as the old ones? Anyway, we guess we should be grateful for some activity of any sort. We are concerned about the state of the path through the […]
By Nige
on December 15, 2021
at 9:44 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes
We had a call with the Bloor Adoption Manager yesterday afternoon and he provided the following updates:
