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Email from FirstPort
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 […]
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 […]
Responses to Claims for Repayment of FirstPort Charges
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 […]
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 […]
Public Arts Funding Now on Hold
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 […]
Clarification about FirstPort Additional Charge
By Nige
on October 7, 2022
at 11:11 am
Type: News
Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort
Just want to make sure this is highlighted to everyone that has recently received a charge from FirstPort: We have all of the documentation that anyone needs to submit a claim. Just ask!
Extra Charges from FirstPort
By Nige
on October 7, 2022
at 11:09 am
Type: News
Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort
We have just received a letter in the post from FirstPort advising of an extra charge for this year. Cheeky blighters. Only £8.15 for us. Assume the same for others. What really annoys us though is them including a page of rights and obligations at the back, which does not apply to us! We are […]
Public Arts Funding
By Nige
on October 3, 2022
at 11:07 am
Type: News
Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council
Another quick update in respect to the Arts Council funding – bit of a holding statement to be honest. The Arts Funding Sub-Committee (!) has been working hard in the background on developing ideas and liaising with a very helpful member of the council. A more detailed update will be provided very soon on this […]
