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Items relating to First Port Property Management, who took over Chamonix Estates as the Estate Manager for The Dovecote (Drayton) Management Company.
By Nige
on October 26, 2023
at 1:29 pm
Type: News
Category: Residents
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort
The RA has prepared lots of information to help residents make the right decision for them when it comes to the Big Vote. We can now confirm the timeline for voting!
By Nige
on October 21, 2023
at 5:57 pm
Type: News
Category: Residents
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort | Vale of White Horse District Council
To help residents decide on how to vote in the Big Vote, due to start shortly, we have organised two open forums to allow residents to ask any question they would like answers to.
By Nige
on October 17, 2023
at 1:39 pm
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort | Vale of White Horse District Council
Following some really positive discussions with residents in the past day or so, we are currently preparing two things to help bring all of this to life for residents.
By Nige
on October 9, 2023
at 4:00 pm
Type: Post
Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort | Vale of White Horse District Council
This is the critical one, which effectively asks whether residents (1) want to take control themselves, or (2) are happy to stick with FirstPort.
By Nige
on April 2, 2023
at 3:36 pm
Type: Post
Category: Estate Management
Tags: Announcements | FirstPort
A Management Information Pack (MIP) is a collection of documents that contain important information that may affect a buyer’s decision to proceed with a house purchase.
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?
By Nige
on March 6, 2023
at 6:45 am
Type: Post
Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | FirstPort
Since 2021, the residents of The Dovecote have been receiving notifications of annual service charges and an associated account statement. We thought it would be helpful to explain what these service charges relate to and whether you need to pay them.
By Nige
on February 28, 2023
at 12:10 pm
Type: News
Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | FirstPort
As one or two residents have already posted on this subject, but we have just received two service charge statements in the post: As one resident has already noted, we were already made aware of the charge for £8.15 sometime last year, so that’s not something new.Interestingly, we have not had a service charge for […]
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 […]
By Nige
on February 14, 2023
at 12:07 pm
Type: News
Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort
We think it’s about now when residents can expect to receive a statement from FirstPort with charges for the previous year. It will be interesting to see whether they attempt to charge residents this year, due to the fuss we have made over reclaiming these charges from Bloor Homes. As a reminder, most of us […]
