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The Jumble Trail will take place on Sunday 21st September 2014 10am-3pm. in the mile around St James Street Station. Front gardens will become stalls selling bric-a-brac, crafts, clothes, cakes etc. If you live in the area it’s a great opportunity to find a new home for stuff you never use. For everyone else its […]

On Wednesday 30th July Leasehold Solutions are giving a Q&A on this with a focus on how it works for Warner flats. There are a lot of things wrong with leasehold law but the right to buy the freehold (aka Collective Enfranchisement)  is one of the good things about it. For some background information, ALEP […]

Is it necessary, and if so, who pays? It seems even the experts disagree.  A Leasehold Valuation Tribunal recently asked to address these questions promptly had its verdict reversed by an Upper Tribunal. Eleven residents of a small block in Swindon asked the LVT to determine whether their landlord had a right to charge them […]

Some Warner residents have already bought their freehold. Others want to know more about it. So we asked some specialists in leasehold law to address a local meeting to talk through the basics of how it works, what it costs, who is eligible, and why it’s worth doing. 7.15pm, 30th July. Priory Court Community Centre […]

Should landlords be licenced? This was the focus of a meeting of Walthamstow tenants on 7th December, addressed by Stella Creasy, MP and Councillor Marie Pye and co-organised by Movement for Change. The question may not seem immediately relevant to leaseholders, but read on. Firstly when when landlords ignore major repairs or infestations, it means misery […]