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.

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Notes from Pre-Inspection Meeting on Tue 12 Oct 2021 – Part 3

By Nige on October 13, 2021 at 9:38 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

Points raised in relation to the northern end of the east side of the development:

Notes from Pre-Inspection Meeting on Tue 12 Oct 2021 – Part 2

By Nige on October 13, 2021 at 9:37 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

Points raised at the entrance to the development:

Notes from Pre-Inspection Meeting on Tue 12 Oct 2021 – Part 1

By Nige on October 13, 2021 at 9:36 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

Attendees: General points:

Notes from Pre-Inspection Meeting on Tue 12 Oct 2021

By Nige on October 13, 2021 at 9:34 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

These notes will be available in a Word doc on the shared drive in due course, but to make these easy to read, we thought we would post sections of our notes on FB, based on the area of the development they concern. Remember this only focuses on the Public Open Space (POS), so it […]

Pre-Inspection Meeting Held

By Nige on October 12, 2021 at 9:32 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

We attended a pre-inspection of the Public Open Space (POS) with Bloor, VWHDC and East Midlands Landscaping (EML) with a view to finalising the work that EML will be doing over the next month or so, ahead of a formal inspection by VWHDC. We have got a lot of notes and there will be a […]

Challenge to FirstPort Service Charges

By Nige on September 2, 2021 at 9:31 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort | Soha

We have indicated in the past that as a principle, we don’t believe there is any justification in FirstPort (FP) charging residents anything at this point in time, ahead of formal handover from Bloor to the Management Company (MC). We know a lot of you agree on this point. We have pulled together a high […]

Reminder about Work on the Play Area

By Nige on August 25, 2021 at 9:29 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes

Some of you will have already seen some of the work being undertaken around the development. Quick reminder about the work on the play area which will mean it is out of action for a while.

FirstPort Year End Adjustments

By Nige on August 16, 2021 at 9:27 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort

We have received a response from FirstPort about the change in approach to calculating year end adjustments. We have stored an Excel file that they sent to me in the shared area here: [Old Link]. This shows the amount to pay based on completion date. We would imagine this is ordered in some way by […]

Update on Handover

By Nige on August 12, 2021 at 9:24 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes

Just had a call with our Bloor Adoption Manager. Key points: The Bloor Adoption Manager reaffirmed Bloor’s intention on meeting its obligations. We have complete faith in him – he’s a guy of integrity but we suspect he is constrained by Bloor senior management. That’s it for now. Happy to answer any questions.

Update on Latest FirstPort Service Charges

By Nige on August 9, 2021 at 9:23 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: FirstPort

Unfortunately, we received an email from FirstPort this morning to advise of the following – this was in response to our challenge of their charges: So, we think that means we can expect to receive further emails/letters with an updated balance – every resident’s balance will be different. Sounds like some will gain from this […]