News

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.

Posts are normally shown in reverse chronological order, in groups of 10, but you can adapt the results using the controls below.

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 […]

Status of Handover

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 […]

Concerns over Landscape Maintenance

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 […]

Reminder about Arts Funding Ideas

By Nige on June 30, 2022 at 11:02 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Quick reminder about sending in your suggestions for the use of the £47k arts funding. Deadline is Sun 3rd July. You can post your suggestions here, on Facebook or you can send your suggestions to the normal email address or just use our contact us form.