By Nige
on August 30, 2024
at 6:45 am
Type: News
This is the news page. This is where we share shorter posts, which aim at highlighting important events.
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 11:15 am
Type: News
Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort
We recently encouraged residents to submit a claim into Bloor Homes to recover the costs that FirstPort were attempting to claim. We have circulated the documentation we used to quite a few residents. We wonder whether anyone might want to advise how you are progressing with your claims? This might give others the confidence to […]
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 ÂŁ47k 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 […]
