Islington Leaseholders AssociationLEASE 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
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.
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Latest on New Act…
Islington Council – Homes and Neighbourhoods Structure Chart 2024 with email addresses
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.
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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.
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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
The ILA directors wish all leaseholders a Merry Xmas and Great New Year.
See attached paperwork on subjects DISCUSSED/EXPLAINED at Tuesday’s (10.12.24) latest meeting of the ILA…
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.
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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…
It doesn’t surprise me in the least that in this weeks edition of the (Islington Tribune (22/11/24) Cllr Ona O’Halloran immediately admits the fact that both the Housing Ombudsman and The right Honourable Michael Gove recently condemned and Castigated Islington Council, stating they where shocked to find that complaints in Islington were found to be four (4) times higher than anywhere else in the country, In the mouldy and damp ridden homes she preside over …Since she was obviously advised to highlight, and dispose of such a disgraceful record, before demands for her to acknowledge it by Residents, really opened up the “can of worms”…anyone needing a copy can get it free from www.ila.org.uk.
I thought Una’s call for independents to stand down showed her up as authoritarian. Hasn’t it occurred to Cllr O’Halloran that the reason so many independents were standing in Junction ward could be directly attributed to the fact that there is no Democracy in Islington…we are a ONE PARTY BOROUGH, and will remain so as long as tenants are keep in the dark in regard to issues such as : -Their average weekly council rent rise this year of £10…And Leaseholders Cyclic Maintenance bills now increasing exponentially (I saw one for £72,000)…while at the same time our pensioners are choosing to either Freeze or go hungry…
I really do think that it is time Cllr O’Halloran…started to look, listen, and learn…instead of just spouting election rhetoric…
Does she at any point associate her early life problems with those of the poorest residents in this Borough…I think NOT, for should she do so, she would stop banging the drum on the progress of the Labour Party and start to install some democratic processes into Islington…
Recently, she oversaw a Third of this Borough’s tenants openly discriminated against because the council “didn’t like” what they said about Rents and Service charges…and did nothing about it…
Democracy…Where…!!!
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