Notice of AGM 2019

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[button align=”left” link=”mailto:info@fpra.org.uk?subject=FPRA AGM 2019 Attendance Confirmation&body=Please include your name and RA name/number. Thanks” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”#003399″ textColor=”#FFFFFF”]For members only. Please send an email to the FPRA Office (info@fpra.org.uk) if you are attending the AGM. Thank you. Click here. >>[/button]   [button align=”left” link=”https://www.fpra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AGM_noticemap_sheet_2019_v3b.pdf” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”#003399″ textColor=”#FFFFFF”]2019 AGM notice PDF download >>[/button]     NOTICE OF […]

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Important Case on the Operation of Section 303(5) of the Companies Act 2006

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Important Case on the Operation of Section 303(5) of the Companies Act 2006 Judgment was handed down in case of Kaye v Oxford House (Wimbledon) Management Company Ltd [2019] EWHC 2181 (Ch) on Thursday 8th August 2019 by Deputy High Court Judge Lance Ashworth QC and is authority on the operation of Section 303(5) of […]

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NOTB Issue 100 magazine for FPRA members

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[ms-protect-content id=”4097″] Issue 100 of News on the Block has now been made available  to FPRA members to   to read online. News on the Block would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors, advertisers and sponsors who have supported News on the Block over the last 100 issues. This issue […]

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Leasehold home ownership: buying your freehold or extending your lease Consultation paper

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Leasehold Enfranchisement Team Law Commission 1st Floor Tower 52 Queen Anne’s Gate London SW1H 9AG 16th November 2018 Dear Sirs Leasehold home ownership: buying your freehold or extending your lease Consultation paper This response to your consultation is on behalf of The Federation of Private Residents’ Associations (FPRA), which as far as we know, is […]

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FPRA response to Law Commission’s Consultation Paper: Reinvigorating commonhold: the alternative to leasehold ownership

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Leasehold Enfranchisement Team Law Commission 1st Floor Tower 52 Queen Anne’s Gate London SW1H 9AG 4 March 2019 SENT BY EMAIL AND POST Dear Sirs Law Commission’s Consultation Paper: Reinvigorating commonhold: the alternative to leasehold ownership This response to your consultation is on behalf of The Federation of Private Residents’ Associations (FPRA), which as far […]

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Law Commission’s Consultation Paper: Reinvigorating commonhold: the alternative to leasehold ownership

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Leasehold Enfranchisement Team Law Commission 1st Floor Tower 52 Queen Anne’s Gate London SW1H 9AG 4 March 2019 SENT BY EMAIL AND POST Dear Sirs Law Commission’s Consultation Paper: Reinvigorating commonhold: the alternative to leasehold ownership This response to your consultation is on behalf of The Federation of Private Residents’ Associations (FPRA), which as far […]

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Bob Slee, Director

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Originally from the North-East and a long line of coal miners, Bob Slee spent a diverse career of over 30 years in Whitehall, which included the establishment of a tri-service government agency responsible for the UK military housing estate, followed by two years as a member of the Agency’s management board. In 2005, following early […]

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No Pets Allowed

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No Pets AllowedQ: We are a block of 20 apartments. Our lease (we are freeholders) states quite clearly, when originated some 30 years ago, that NO pets are allowed. Over the years the committee, on compassionate grounds only, have allowed new owners/renters who already had a pet to keep them …but not to replace them. […]

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Paying for Fire Safety Improvements

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Paying for Fire Safety ImprovementsQ: In the absence of relevant provisions in the lease, does the management board have any legal authority to compel leaseholders to accept (and pay for) fire safety improvements in the apartments, for example, intumescent seals and self-closing hinges being added to front doors? Another example is the installation of heat […]

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