Thieving Southwark Council scum

[spider69]

You should have received the following before any Major Works are undertaken

What is the Section 20 consultation process for major works?

The Section 20 consultation process generally has three stages:

A notice of intention

Notification of estimates

Notification of award of contract

You will also be asked for your comments.

If you have just bought the above should have been declared by previous owner also your solicitor would have asked in a pre-assignment request.

[fredbear]

we have had some overpriced work from Southwark i now always take before and after photographs and ask for a complete breakdown of the work.We have been charged for scaffolding that has not been used and for repairs to the tenents below our flat window locks when i queried this i was told they were part of the fabric of the building and was therefore liable for half the cost.

[Blah Blah]

Being repsonsible for window locks to another dwelling? That is just bonkers. Did you challenge that?

[Pugwash]

My neighbour is a leaseholder in ex council flat had to pay ?5000 for exterior painting which in less than 6 weeks is already peeling off. His downstairs neighbour is a council tenant pays nothing. I have received a quite for exterior painting front and back for whole house for a similar price.

[Blah Blah]

Of course tenants pay nothing, because they are tenants.

Leaseholders know that they will be charged for communal works and service charges. Whilst I understand being able to challenge the amounts involved, I can't understand why anyone doesn't understand that's what they sign up for.

[nunheadbelle]

I don't think it works out at ?16,000 per flat, I would imagine it's divided up between the leaseholders, as the tenants pay nothing.

I warned my sister-in-law about these costs before she bought an ex-council flat.

Loz Wrote:

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> As someone else said, the real issue is the price.

> ?16k per flat is an extraordinary amount - what

> is being done for that sort of money??

[Blah Blah]

You imagine wrong. Leaseholders are not charged for the entire cost of any works to their building.

[malumbu]

The title of this thread and your commments are libellous and if I was a thieving Southwark Council Scum Councillor or thieving Southwark scum senior official (assuming that you are aiming your remarks at this whole layer of local government) I may may be tempted to take some action against the unimaginative and poorly informed posting.

Have you tried talking to one of your thieving scum councillor about this? Are you not tempted to stand against the thieving scum, in a party that is not thieving scum (if they exist) or set up your own party 'the non-theiving scum'.

Nothing like a good rant (I have plenty of them) but try to be a bit more reasonable in your acusations.

Here is my favourite one. Dear Southwark Council, you did a lovely job of pedestrianising Rye Lane, but the bus lane is too narrow and buses keep mounting the cycle lane and destroying the curb. Can you please work with TfL and redesign the layout rather than wasting our Council Tax simply lobbing in tarmac that gets removed a couple of days later into the damage.

Oh I seem to have already raised this on this forum, writing to both Southwark Council, and to TfL and then using Freedom of Information requests when I thought that they were not responding. I may have also used their complaints process too.

Damn democracy and democratic accountability.

[PeckhamRose]

1) If the invoice is for an amount and is dated over 18 months after the first s20 then you don't have to pay. Search the eighteen month rule.

2) If you believe that the amount is wrong or unreasonable please go to the Leaseholder Citizens Advice Centre, 8 Market Place, on Southwark Park Road, Rotherhithe. In the meantime keep copies of EVERYTHING including every email they send to you and you send to them/ the council.

3) Ignore the idiots who have posted above who know not the facts of being a Southwark Council Leaseholder. If I had paid attention to grok for example, I would not have got ?2,200 off the price of what was asked of me for replacement windows; this ?2,200 was added outside the 18 month rule.

4) Become a member of Leaseholders Association of Southwark. Google this and find the address. Run by unpaid volunteers they have been very valuable to me in their sensible and well researched advice.

Be business-like about this. Best wishes.