Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the google-analytics-for-wordpress domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/ilaorguk/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the health-check domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/ilaorguk/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the wptouch-pro domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/ilaorguk/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
Islington Leaseholders Association
Categories
Government Housing ILA Information Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Leases London Major Works Meetings Newsletter PFI Repairs Service Charges Website

ILA meeting Tues 8th April 2025

ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION (ILA)

MEETING on TUESDAY the

8th April 2025 at

7-9pm in
St Mary’s Church, Upper Street

(located approximately 100 yards from the Town Hall, walking towards the Angel)

Solicitors from LEASE will be attending to explain the terms of the NEW LEASEHOLD ACT…

Hosting the meet – Dr Brian Potter

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

X (FKA “Twitter”) @ilaorguk

Face Book www.facebook.com/IslingtonLeaseholdersAssociation

Please join or renew your membership via our website ww.ila.org.uk . You can obtain the appropriate membership forms from the “Support” tab in menu

Categories
Cyclical Works Financial Government Housing Information Leaseholders Leases Newsletter Repairs Service Charges

Leasehold Act (New)

LEASE article on the new Act.

https://www.lease-advice.org/article/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/

We also recommend Tanfield Chambers website which carries a number of very useful articles such as this one-

https://tanfieldchambers.co.uk/the-leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024-an-overview

Also of note is this document from the House of Commons Library-

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/leasehold-reform-in-england-and-wales

Categories
Housing ILA Information Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Leases London Major Works Meetings Newsletter PFI Repairs Service Charges Website

ILA meet Tues 11th March 2025

ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION (ILA)

MEETING on TUESDAY the

11th March 2025 at

7-9pm in
St Mary’s Church, Upper Street

(located approximately 100 yards from the Town Hall, walking towards the Angel)

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month

Hosting the Meet – Dr Brian Potter

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

X (FKA “Twitter”) @ilaorguk

Face Book www.facebook.com/IslingtonLeaseholdersAssociation

Please join or renew your membership via our website ww.ila.org.uk . You can obtain the appropriate membership forms from the “Support” tab in menu

Latest on New Act…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgezyz31jlo.amp

Categories
Leaseholders

Homes and Neighbourhoods – IBC – Structure Chart 2024

Islington Council – Homes and Neighbourhoods Structure Chart 2024 with email addresses

Categories
Housing ILA Information Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Leases London Major Works Meetings Newsletter PFI Repairs Service Charges Website

ILA meet Tues 11th Feb 2025

ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION (ILA)

MEETING on TUESDAY the

11th February 2025 at

7-9pm in
St Mary’s Church, Upper Street

(located approximately 100 yards from the Town Hall, walking towards the Angel)

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month

Hosting the Meet – Dr Brian Potter

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

X (FKA “Twitter”) @ilaorguk

Face Book www.facebook.com/IslingtonLeaseholdersAssociation

Please join or renew your membership via our website ww.ila.org.uk . You can obtain the appropriate membership forms from the “Support” tab in menu

Categories
Housing ILA Information Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Leases London Major Works Meetings Newsletter PFI Repairs Service Charges Website

ILA meet Tuesday 14th Jan 2025

ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION (ILA)

MEETING on TUESDAY the

14th January 2025 at

7-9pm in
St Mary’s Church, Upper Street

(located approximately 100 yards from the Town Hall, walking towards the Angel)

Our guest at this meeting is RICS Surveyor Ian Pierce.

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month

Hosting the Meet – Dr Brian Potter

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

X (FKA “Twitter”) @ilaorguk

Face Book www.facebook.com/IslingtonLeaseholdersAssociation

Please join or renew your membership via our website ww.ila.org.uk . You can obtain the appropriate membership forms from the “Support” tab in menu

Categories
Cyclical Works IBC ILA Information Islington Islington Council Leaseholders Leases London Major Works Partners Repairs Service Charges

The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA)

The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) is part of the building safety legislation that was introduced in the wake of the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster.

The government set this legislation to help protect leaseholders from the burden of remediation costs for historical safety defects.

The protection under the BSA only applies to “relevant defects “ in “relevant buildings”.

A relevant defect, broadly covers historical building safety defects, which cause a building safety risk from the spread of fire or collapse of the building or part of it, such as combustible cladding, or defective foundations, and must have created in the 30 years prior to the leaseholder protections coming into force, (meaning the defect had to be created from 28 June 1992 to 27 June 2022).

The definition of a relevant building is one that contains at least two dwellings and is at least 11 metres in height, or has at least 5 storeys, (whichever criteria is met first).

Leaseholders in 5 storey blocks may request a landlords certificate from LBI, however a certificate is only required if a landlord seeks to recover remediation costs relating to “relevant defects”, within the meaning of section 120 of the Building Safety Act 2022, from leaseholders in “relevant buildings”, defined in s117 of the Act.

If a property is in a “relevant building”, and any remediation costs relating to “relevant defects” are now not legally chargeable to the leaseholder of the property, given that any “relevant defects” would have arisen from “relevant works”, either undertaken or commissioned by the council.

Of course any other costs unrelated to “relevant defects” will still be chargeable, as per the terms of the lease.

I hope this helps. You can read further information here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-building-safety-act

Categories
Greetings ILA Information Islington Leaseholders Website

Happy Holidays


The ILA directors wish all leaseholders a Merry Xmas and Great New Year. 

Categories
Financial Housing IBC Information Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Leases Ombudsman Repairs Service Charges

ILA Meet Paperwork

See attached paperwork on subjects DISCUSSED/EXPLAINED at Tuesday’s (10.12.24) latest meeting of the ILA…

Categories
Housing ILA Information Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Leases London Major Works Meetings Newsletter PFI Repairs Service Charges Website

ILA meet Tuesday 10th Dec

ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION (ILA)

MEETING ON
*  TUESDAY  *
THE
10th December 2024
IN 
St Mary’s Church
*Upper Street*

(located approximately 100 yards from the Town Hall, walking towards the Angel)
7-9pm

We will be reviewing the proposed New “Act” on Leaseholding  & Commonhold

Please note our new address, necessitated as a consequence of the councils current policy of NON inclusion in the Borough…

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month

Hosting the Meet – Dr Brian Potter

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

X (FKA “Twitter”) @ilaorguk

Face Book www.facebook.com/IslingtonLeaseholdersAssociation

Please join or renew your membership via our website ww.ila.org.uk . You can obtain the appropriate membership forms from the “Support” tab in menu

Categories
Councillors Election Financial Government Housing IBC ILA Islington Islington Council LBI Leaseholders Repairs Service Charges

Letter to all ILA Members


As I explained previously, Islington Council recently attempted to disband the ILA, by denying us use of a room in the Town Hall, stating that they “no longer recognise the ILA”. However, having solved the problem of a venue, the directors and I decided to advance the ILA’s existence into a far wider electorate, by standing as an independent in the local elections for “Junction Ward”.

Sorry to say, but this time around we didn’t get ELECTED…primarily, due to our combined inexperience and time constraints…But certainly, NOT for lack of trying, or enthusiasm on the part of those who very willingly volunteered their services…A Great big THANKS to all concerned… Nevertheless, due to their efforts, the ILA is now recognised/known by many, many more leaseholders who previously had no idea it existed…!!!

I am extremely happy with the challenge we raised in such a short period of time, and can only say that it was a WONDERFUL learning curve, that our team tested to the utmost, and one which will pay off enormously in all future efforts…(and, we only polled 18 votes behind the Conservative Party Candidate…!!!)

However, “Never say Die”…as the Chairman of the ILA I am proposing to the membership that in future we up our game PLAN exponentially by: –

1/ Possibly fielding candidates in all/any forthcoming Local Elections…In all/any Wards up for re-election…

2/ Promoting an extremely vociferous membership of ILA members, able to show Islington Council and various Government Departments that we demand to be recognised in this Borough. Sadly, although Council leaseholders currently constitute approximately ONE THIRD of all Council properties…we still lack our own “voice” in Islington Town Hall…
This situation urgently needs redressing…!!!

3/ Further our Association’s objectives by using our WEBSITE / PRESS to link up with similar Organisations with compatible aim’s and objectives…(there are 4.6 million leaseholders in this country)…

4/ Reserve a LARGER meeting room in which to hold our regular MONTHLY meetings…

5/ Generally work to a loosely, but appropriate, preset agenda…

6/ Regularly Advertise the meetings in the Press / Etc…

7/ Given that we have approximately 11000 Council Leaseholders in the Borough…a vast number of which are still painfully unaware that the ILA exists, it will be be EXTREMELY useful if all of our existing members join in our recruitment drive, and encourage more leaseholders to attend our meetings, and support our objectives…ASAP…

8/ Notably, since the government have recently reduced the discount on RTB properties, the poor old Councils must be completely overwhelmed with tenants attempting to apply prior to the new (much lower) discount effectively coming into force…(which should allow our membership to increase by 000?” Over night…)

Questions: –
1/ What’s this financial windfall to the Council, going to be used for.?…Perhaps, since it’s your cash they are about to inherit, you might like to demand an answer from Cllr O’Halloran, Leader of Islington Council…in person…!!!

Dr Brian Potter…
Chairman ILA…

Share via
Copy link