Islington Leaseholders Association
You can also talk to Council, Mears, Partners, BreyerGroup about:
Your annual or major works service charges
Future works to your block or estate
Subletting or selling your property
Meet: LEASE – the independent leasehold advice service
Zurich Municipal – building insurance provider
St Mungo’s Broadway – for money and benefit advice
Credit Union – community savings and loans
Building Control – advice on building regulations
Find out more about:
Islington Residential, our property management service for leaseholders who sublet their property
How to have your say
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on
3pm-7.30pm
Islington Assembly Halls
Upper street
N1 2UD
Islington Leaseholders Association Meeting
on
Wednesday 9th July 2014
in
Islington Town Hall
at
7pm – 9pm
Guest Speaker: Mr Ross Howarth the “Housing Ombudsman Service” adjudicator.
Hosting the meeting: Dr Brian Potter Chairman (ILA)
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The “Adjudicator” of the “Housing Ombudsmen Service”
Dr. B.S. Potter ( Chairman ILA)
Islington Leaseholders Association Meeting
and
Annual General Meeting
on
Wednesday 11th June 2014
in
Islington Town Hall
at
7pm – 9pm
Hosting the meeting: Dr Brian Potter Chairman (ILA)
Guest Speakers: Mrs Patricia Napier
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The apolitical ILA have invited all Islington political parties to attend a Hustings at our ILA monthly meet, to tell us how they will help Leaseholders.
Leaseholders are invited to come along and ask them how they’ll help you.
Guest Speakers from Islington’s political parties confirmed so far include:
Cllr. James Murray – Executive Member for Housing (Labour),
Cllr. Terry Stacy (Liberal) ,
Charlie Kiss (Green),
Patricia Napier (Conservative),
Pete Muswell (UKIP)
Islington Leaseholders Association Meeting
on
Wednesday 13th November 2013
in
Islington Town Hall
at
7pm – 9pm
Guest Speakers:
Mr Andrew Nutter Islington Council – Service Director for Property and Procurement
Hosting the meeting: Dr Brian Potter ILA
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The Leaseholders Fair
Is on
Wednesday 9th Oct
In
The “Assembly Rooms” at Islington Town Hall
The Islington Leaseholders Association (ILA) will be in attendance from 3pm until 7pm
Also
Our regular Wednesday meeting will take place, as usual, in the Main Council Chamber of the Town Hall from: –
7pm until 9pm
All council leaseholders…are strongly advised to attend
And ask questions.
…Remember…
Knowledge is Power
‘£30k maintenance charge drained my life savings’ says 88-year-old leaseholder
Published: 13 September, 2013 by PETER GRUNER and SERINA SANDHU from Islington Tribune
HOUSING activists are launching a campaign to force Islington Council to pay back most of the £30,000 in maintenance fees which drained the life savings of an 88-year-old leaseholder.
They will claim that widowed pensioner Joan Leonard was not properly consulted some eight years ago, nor did she give her approval of work done on the tower block Emberton Court, on the Brunswick estate, Clerkenwell.
The move follows plans for more work on the estate for which Mrs Leonard will be asked to contribute another £8,000.
Retired tailor Mrs Leonard, who has lived on the fifth floor of the estate for more than 60 years, said: “I paid the money for four new windows and two doors. They also replaced a perfectly good boiler.
“But I got a shock when I got the bill. Now they want more money for things like CCTV and repairs. Well, I don’t have it.”
Two of the borough’s most formidable campaigners, Dr Brian Potter, chairman of Islington Leaseholders Association, and student barrister Patricia Napier will take on the case.
The work on the estate was carried out by the now-defunct housing management organisation Homes for Islington in 2008-09.
Dr Potter said: “This is a woman who was forced to spend her entire life-savings on work which probably wasn’t needed. She came to us because she’s being asked to spend more money.”
He added: “We hope of course that rather than a long, protracted tribunal or court case the council will agree to a refund.”
Ms Napier said: “£30,000 is a huge amount of money. I hope to get a great proportion of it back. Mrs Leonard is obviously not a wealthy woman and it appears she was not aware of her rights at the time the work was done.
“The council will have to prove that the work was necessary.”
Councillor James Murray, executive member for housing, said that if any leaseholders have difficulty making the payment a member of the housing team can help them by discussing options.