An Update for Chelsea Bridge Wharf Residents

Preparation for a Right to Manage application is underway at Chelsea Bridge Wharf albeit that it is led by people (Larissa Villar Hauser and Louis-Sebastian Kendall)  who were part of a committee which told residents for two years that RTM was not possible, forced me off the committee for refusing to close this petition against Rendall and Rittner and closed my CBW app account for stating that Right to manage was possible and that the CBWRA committee were misinforming residents that it was not. 

CBWRA continues to suppress criticism of Rendall and Rittner (and the CBWRA committee) on the CBW app (private social media platform). CBWRA have given no explanation or apology for misinforming residents about Right to Manage for two years, and the horrendous behaviour towards me personally (which led to me and at least one other resident making complaints to the Police about the former Chair) and other residents who argued for Right to Manage from 2021 to the current time. My CBW app account remains closed, making fair elections impossible and suppressing any opposing views to the committee. No evidence of any rule breaking by me has been presented by the CBWRA committee and my account was closed without any due process. .

Still, this is progress! Right to Manage is important but if we get it and residents are still being excluded and not consulted then we will only have won half the battle. So until such time as the CBWRA committee treat me and other residents with respect, consult us fairly on important decisions and hold fair and free elections for Chair and committee, and allow freedom of speech on the CBW app and end arbitrary account closure,  then I ask CBW residents to attend the CBWRA special general meeting on 12th September at 7pm  (online only, via Teams)  https://teams.live.com/meet/9413383969775?p=ryGgMuf3MR4c28ML or to appoint me as your proxy (contact me if unclear how to do that:   residents@chelseabridgewharf.org.uk)

At the meeting please: 

·         vote AGAINST  ratification of  committee (because they are not consulting residents, the consultations they do carry out are biased/ leading and the proposed quarterly ‘forums’ are too infrequent and exclude non-leaseholders.  Also  there is not freedom of speech on the app, and you might also say because they misinformed residents about RTM and have not explained or apologised for that). Also that there should be ELECTIONS not ‘ratification’

·         VOTE AGAINST the ratification of the constitution because we are only being given 10 days to see it before the meeting (it will only come around on 30 AUG) 

·         VOTE AGAINST CBWRA fees rise CBWRA have never given any meaningful justification for the 140% increase in fees  which they carried out in Feb this year. They claimed it was partly for legal fees to do with RTM but they have also said Urang  (the proposed new managing agent) are covering all fees or will recover them through the service charge.

I also encourage residents to consider withholding all payment to CBWRA until they adopt normal standards of governance in respect of fair elections, free speech and resident consultation. #NOSAYNOPAY

In the extremely biased CBWRA 'consultation' please also vote against spending any more money on the fountains 

Will any of this be an obstacle to Right to Manage? No, not at all, it just means that CBWRA will have to respect residents and adopt normal standards of governance before they can get our support, financial and otherwise. Right to Manage should mean passing power from the freeholder to residents, not just passing to a tiny group of residents hitherto mostly unelected and who do not have a strong record on informing consulting or involving residents, We need Right to manage AND a fair and democratic residents' association. Until we get both, the fight goes on. Please contact me: residents@chelseabridgewharf.org.uk for further information or with a view to supporting.  

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