I own a freehold property on a private estate which comprises of a mix of freehold houses and lease hold flats (total of 79 properties).
I posed some questions to the managing agents which went unanswered.
One of the questions was that the recently appointed parking control company have not been seen on site (the estate is close to Twickenham Rugby stadium) and there are parking issues on match days.
About a week later I received a penalty charge notice on my vehicle which was parked legitimately and displaying the correct permit !! (coincidence?)
The parking company refused my appeal and failed to provide a reference number that is required for me to take the matter to adjudication. I am in the process of dealing with this matter.
Another question I asked was details of expenditure in relation to common areas, in particular if costs for electricity and window cleaning of the common areas within the flats were taking from the service charge for the whole estate. This question has not been answered.
I then asked if there was a residents association and eventually got a response that this information was available from company house.
My understanding of the estate is that all properties have a nominal share holding, a share certificate, valued £5 was part of the conveyancing requirements.
There are freehold properties and leasehold properties owned by a different company to the managing agents.
I have become very very frustrated by the MA's and would like to know the following:-
1/ How do I determine if there is a residents association.The MA advice was to look on company house website, I did this and found an address for the residents association director in South London. A letter to that address directed me back to the managing agents for answers (magic roundabout!!)
Is this person the director of the shareholders or the residents association?
2/ How do I start a residents association if there is none.
3/ Who would have appointed the managing agents.
4/ What is the process of replacing the managing agents.
5/ Does the leasehold company have any 'clout', they own most of the estate property.
6/ Are there any legal requirements for the managing agents to answer general estate related questions.
Looking forward to some help here.
I posed some questions to the managing agents which went unanswered.
One of the questions was that the recently appointed parking control company have not been seen on site (the estate is close to Twickenham Rugby stadium) and there are parking issues on match days.
About a week later I received a penalty charge notice on my vehicle which was parked legitimately and displaying the correct permit !! (coincidence?)
The parking company refused my appeal and failed to provide a reference number that is required for me to take the matter to adjudication. I am in the process of dealing with this matter.
Another question I asked was details of expenditure in relation to common areas, in particular if costs for electricity and window cleaning of the common areas within the flats were taking from the service charge for the whole estate. This question has not been answered.
I then asked if there was a residents association and eventually got a response that this information was available from company house.
My understanding of the estate is that all properties have a nominal share holding, a share certificate, valued £5 was part of the conveyancing requirements.
There are freehold properties and leasehold properties owned by a different company to the managing agents.
I have become very very frustrated by the MA's and would like to know the following:-
1/ How do I determine if there is a residents association.The MA advice was to look on company house website, I did this and found an address for the residents association director in South London. A letter to that address directed me back to the managing agents for answers (magic roundabout!!)
Is this person the director of the shareholders or the residents association?
2/ How do I start a residents association if there is none.
3/ Who would have appointed the managing agents.
4/ What is the process of replacing the managing agents.
5/ Does the leasehold company have any 'clout', they own most of the estate property.
6/ Are there any legal requirements for the managing agents to answer general estate related questions.
Looking forward to some help here.

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