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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.

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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.

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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.

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Smoke and mirrors

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…!!!

drbrianpotter.wordpress.com

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Ombudsmans ‘Shocking” report on Islington Council

Dr Brian Potter is repeatedly asked for the Ombudsmans ‘Shocking” report on Islington Council while campaigning.

We’ve all heard how Islington Borough Council’s Housing Chief (and now Boss) Una O’Halloran was too “busy” to speak to the Islington Tribune’s news reporter recently. 

Perhaps her understandable reticence to be interviewed concerned the shocking report,  which high lighted council tenants still trapped in home’s riddled with damp and mould years after the Ombudsman’s damning report into Islington’s serious Mismanagement of this Borough, (link here 

The Rt Hon Michael Gove’s scathing letter to the council which followed, detailing how Islington Borough Council’s appalling administration rate’s were four (4) times higher than the national average, and noted that IBC still repeatedly failed to follow their own procedures and policies, as reported here on the ILA website earlier this year. 

Dr Brian Potter was repeatedly asked for, and supplied numerous copies of the ombudsman’s report (attached below) while campaigning as an independent for Junction ward on housing issues.

Perhaps it was this revelation which upset the council to the point where at November’s meeting of the ILA, the meeting required relocating, without notice, after the Council banned the ILA from hiring the Town Hall after 17 years of service to the Borough.

Possibly, their actions were due to the councils inability to handle any form of tenant criticism, or as others have frequently noted, their propensity for censorship and total lack of democracy. When questioned on the subject, the council simply stated that they “did not recognise the association” after 17 years…!!!

So much for democracy.!

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Vote Brian Potter

Your Junction ward Islington Council Independent Candidate for Your Voice , Your Community, Your Change on Thursday 28th November.

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Please feel free to distribute this notice, forward it on social media, print out and put in your window… or someone elses, it all helps 🙂 Thanks

#YourVoiceYourCommunityYourChange

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ILA November Meet Moved

ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION MEETING
on
WEDNESDAY

13th November 2024
in
St Mary’s Church
Upper Street
(located approximately 100 yards from the Town Hall walking towards the Angel.)
7-9pm
Meetings are still held on the second Wednesday of every month
www.ila.org.uk

Please be aware that the ILA will still be taking place AS usual…But since the Council will no longer allow us the use of a room in the Town Hall we will re-locate as above…Please watch future posts for important up-dates on this situation…. 😥 and other developments…

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Leaseholder champ runs for election

Dr Brian Potter is looking to upset council by-election contest

Friday, 1st November — By Isabel Loubser

from: Islington Tribune – read here

Brian Potter

Dr Brian Potter said it was disgraceful that the council won’t take bookings from the ILA

A FAMILIAR face is looking to upset a council by-election contest with the message that leaseholders are being treated as the “magic cash cows”.

Dr Brian Potter, the chair of the Islington Leaseholders Association (ILA), revealed this week he will be among the candidates on the Junction ward ballot.

It is the third council by-election in six months and comes in a year when voters have already taken part in the London and general elections.

Dr Potter is furious that the council has told the ILA that it can no longer book the Town Hall in Upper Street for its meetings.

It has held one there every month for the past 10 years.

“It’s disgraceful,” said Dr Potter who says the organisation, which represents a third of those living in the borough, no longer has a place to meet.

The action came after the ILA said it was un-invited to a council-run “home owners’ event”. Dr Potter decided to hand out leaflets for an ILA meeting outside this event, and at this point was approached by a council officer telling him that the association would not be allowed to use the space.

Dr Potter said: “We’re the best-attended meeting in the borough and now they won’t let us have a room. It’s crazy.

“If they were to do that to anyone else, it would go viral.” He added that he would be “getting on the internet” to spread awareness of the injustice.

The Town Hall say, however, that Dr Potter was not barred from the event last week and claim that the ILA can no longer use the council chamber because it does not represent the council.

The ILA advocates for the rights of leaseholders in the borough and says they are often hit by repairs bills totalling thousands of pounds that they cannot afford.

Dr Potter said: “We get extremely bad works, and the cost given by the council to leaseholders is astronomical and unjustifiable.

“The council are letting the contractors run riot. The billing is absolutely crazy.”

He added that his campaign in the Junction ward would raise aware­ness of the ILA and encourage “any leaseholders with problems” to contact the association.

“They just see us as the magic cash cow, we just keep producing money but it doesn’t matter what you do, you can’t justify these bills,” he said.

An Islington Council spokesperson said: “Here in Islington we’re determined to ensure that everyone has a safe and decent place to call home.

“As part of that we work closely with leaseholders to provide the best quality service, to keep them updated on any works that are being carried out and to ensure that these works offer value for money.

“We know that local people, including leaseholders, know their borough better than anyone and we’re committed to listening to their views.

“That’s why we’re in the process of setting up an independent Leaseholder Forum, which will give leaseholders the opportunity to share their views with the council, hold us to account, and be properly governed.”

The known candidates declared so far for the Junction by-election are James Potts from Labour, Rebecca Jones for the Liberal Democrats, Devon Osborne for the Greens, Jackson Caines from the Islington independents and now Dr Brian Potter.

Any other candidates need to have applied to stand by today’s (Friday’s) deadline.

Voting will take place on Thursday November 28.

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ILA November Meet Cancelled

 ISLINGTON LEASEHOLDERS

ASSOCIATION’s

Monthly Meeting

ON

13th November 2024

IN ISLINGTON TOWN HALL

Has been CANCELLED due to the councils refusal to allow the use of our usual room in the Town Hall

For Alternate Venue see: –

islington.leaseholders@hotmail.co.uk

and

www.ila.org.uk

We formed to assist Council Leaseholders and are therefore completely independent of the Council. There is no charge

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ILA Meeting in October

Monthly Meet

on

Wednesday 9th October 2024

in

Islington Town Hall

at

7pm – 9pm

Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month

Islington Leaseholders, Please bring a copy of all your correspondence on the issues you wish to refer to…….e.g. s20 estimate. etc,

Hosting the Meet – Dr Brian Potter

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

The ILA is the organisation, recognised by the Council, as the body representing some 11,000 leaseholders in the borough.

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Face Book www.facebook.com/IslingtonLeaseholdersAssociation

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ILA Meeting in September

Monthly Meet

on

Wednesday 11th September 2024

in

Islington Town Hall

at

7pm – 9pm

Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month

Islington Leaseholders, Please bring a copy of all your correspondence on the issues you wish to refer to…….e.g. s20 estimate. etc,

Hosting the Meet – Dr Brian Potter

All Islington council leaseholders are welcome.

The ILA is the organisation, recognised by the Council, as the body representing some 11,000 leaseholders in the borough.

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