ILA
Islington Leaseholders Association
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
(a meeting in public)
On Wednesday
22ND JUNE 2011
7 – 9 pm
At
ISLINGTON TOWN HALL
COUNCIL CHAMBER
Upper Street, N1
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ILA monthly meet 8.6.11
Our next Islington Leaseholders Monthly Meeting is
on
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Venue
Islington Town Hall Chambers
at
7pm – 9pm
Hosting the meeting will be Islington Leaseholders
Chairman Dr Brian Potter
Guest Speaker: Two Representatives from Islington Council
Please tell all leaseholders on your Estates and in Street Properties to attend especially those who do not have email thank you
If you wish to become a member or renew your existing membership you can download a membership form here from this website www.ila.org.uk.
Dear Islington Leaseholders
Make your voices heard; demand that all residents of Islington’s PFI contracts (PFI1 and PFI2) are included in the selection of the “Independent Tenant Adviser”. Register your complaint by email to both the Islington Tribune and Gazette and demand that your Councilors’ and MP’s, intercede with the council straight away to ensure your voice is not ignored.
Click here for Dr Potters letter to the papers: –
Directors required
Enthusiastic Leaseholder(s) required to be volunteer ILA Directors, helping to improve the situation of Islington leaseholders – duties would include attending monthly Directors meetings, occasionally attending monthly ILA Forum meetings, gathering neighbouring leasehold information on an ad hoc basis to pass on to other leaseholders.
Volunteers wanted for ILA
The ILA is looking for a volunteer to be co-opted to the ILA Board of Directors to assist with the monthly leaseholder meetings. This would include taking monthly minutes, typing up and distributing to all Directors, recording attendance and other administration tasks.
We are also looking for community minded volunteers with various skills for occasional projects e.g, professional experience in law, accounting, surveying, occasional investigation work, as well as people with skills in social networking, promotion, DTP, a sponsorship and advertising manager (for newsletter & website), journalist to improve ILA image and/or contribute to newsletter and/or website, contributors to write to press/contact media re: Leaseholder concerns.
If interested please:
email: islington.leaseholders@hotmail.co.uk or
write to : ILA, Po Box 66633 , London N1 1AA
Helen Cagnoni (ILA director) letter to the tribune on Council broken promises to return Council Housing back to Islington Councils’ direct responsibility at the completion of ‘Decent Homes’ work,, expensive delays in advertising for a so-called ‘independent tenants’ advisor’, and avoiding responsibility for their full statutory duties, and ILA preventing leaseholders from being overcharged..more
Dear Islington Leaseholders
Our next
Islington Leaseholders Monthly Meeting
is on Wednesday 11 May 2011
venue
Islington Town Hall Chambers
at 7pm – 9pm
Hosting the meeting will be Islington Leaseholders
Chairman Dr Brian Potter
Guest Speaker: Mr Ian Pearce Surveyor
Please tell all leaseholders on your Estates and in Street Properties to attend especially those who do not have email.
If you wish to become a member or renew your existing membership you can download a membership form here from this website www.ila.org.uk.
Council asks tenants to review services
21 April 2011 | By Carl Brown
Islington Council is asking tenants to contribute to a review of its housing management services.
The London authority is to appoint a residents’ panel to inform the review and to appoint an independent tenant advisor to seek residents’ views. More..
ILA monthly meeting
Wednesday 13th April 2011
Islington Town Hall Chambers
7pm – 9pm
Guest speaker: Two Solicitors from the “Lease” Organisation who will offer advice on Leasehold issues
Hosting the meeting: Dr Brian Potter, ILA Chairman
Please tell all leaseholders on your Estates and in Street Properties and suggest that they attend especially those who do not have email
You can renew your membership or download a membership form here
From: Islington Tribnune 1.4.11
Contractors working on behalf of Homes for Islington (HfI) carried out the repairs in 2006 over three months on the Blenheim estate at Marlborough Road, replacing windows with double glazing, repairing the roof and other common areas. Yara Spinelly, 56, had threatened to go to court rather than pay the full £28,000 for her share of the work on her estate because she had never received a final bill. more….
more local stories here
Bemerton leaseholders could lose their homes if estate is demolished
By ROB BLEANEY, islington Gazzette Wednesday, March 30, 2011
MORE than 250 leaseholders on an estate earmarked for demolition could be forced to give up their homes or face being saddled with huge mortgages for flats in the swanky new blocks. more…
more local stories here
A- Short answer “as many as necessary”. Long answer here.