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  • in reply to: Rodmell – Major Works invoices #5911
    christopher2965187
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      Hi, send me your mobile number and I’ll add you to the Camden leaseholders WhatsApp group who are hoping to tackle this disgrace somehow. Thanks, chris

      in reply to: Rodmell – Major Works invoices #5910
      christopher2965187
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        Hi, send me your mobile number and I’ll add you to the Camden leaseholders WhatsApp group who are hoping to tackle this disgrace somehow. Thanks, chris

        in reply to: Gaisford Street – Major works charges #5753
        christopher2965187
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          ok, lots of posts on this topic. I think we are all in the same boat, all being totally ripped off by the council with crazy high fees offering little or no value for money, but the question is how do we take this forward and take action against the council ? Without this, I fear these kind of charges will continue year after year. Lets start with a whatsapp group. Can everyone email me their mobile number to: Christopher2965187@hotmail.com
          Once I get your email with your number I can create a group. Perhaps we all need a meeting. Potentially we need to employ an audit firm to investigate the spending, and potentially a legal firm to take action. As I’ve said, I’ve paid circa £14k over 4 years on my place, scaffolding was up for a year before anyone even went to the building. Its got to the stage where I’m not tempted to sell the flat just to get out of this crap !

          in reply to: Gaisford Street – Major works charges #5654
          christopher2965187
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            ok, so what are the next steps ? Who has time to take the lead on this and set up a group and stop these crazy charges going forward. It seems there’s a number of us in the same boat. I would love to bring some action against the council for miss-use of funds and general over charging for everything over a number of years. I am now worried that next year or the year after there will be another ridiculous bill for more major works. I’m going to have to sell the flat if there’s anymore major works, I can’t keep paying out thousands of pounds a year to Camden Council for virtually no benefit.

            in reply to: Gaisford Street – Major works charges #5639
            christopher2965187
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              I’m totally up for a whatsapp group. If there’s enough of us, we can employ an audit firm to really scrutinize the spend. As I said, I’ve paid £14k in the last 4 years, and extremely little to show for it, I just don’t know how to fight it without incurring lots of time and legal costs. Yes, I could get their spreadsheet, and no doubt it would add up to the total, but what we don’t know is if we have got value for money or competitive quotes etc. We need to fight this as one group. As Karl Marx once said, we need to move from potatoes in a sack to a sack of potatoes – there’s power in a sack, but if we all moaning as individuals we have no real power. Step 1 is getting everyone together into a group and agreeing a strategy to stop these persistent crazy charges !

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