Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety In the light of the system failures which have been revealed by testing carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, Government has commissioned an urgent, independent review of building and fire safety regulations and their effectiveness. Residents’ are invited […]
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Residents of the Holland Estate in London’s Spitalfields have won the battle to save their homes from the demolition proposed by registered social landlord EastEnd Homes.After a high profile campaign led to increasing local, political and media pressure, EastEnd Homes has revoked the demolition notice they served on the estate […]
New community landlord takes shape - How it all started in 2002How the idea of Eastend Homes came to be in the mind of Paul Bloss (then Assistant Director of Housing at LBTH) as presented to residents in the fun packed "Open House" magazine. Plans for a new, Council-sponsored, not-for-profit community […]
BBC Residents campaign against proposed demolition of the Holland Estate to hold public meeting Saturday 25th July with guest speakers Mayor John Biggs and Deputy Mayor Shirajul Islam The meeting, to be held at 6:30pm in the BBC Community centre on the Holland Estate, E1 7NR, will offer residents a […]
Andrew Gilligan Evening Standard – 2007 A PRIVATE company has taken over much of London’s most famous street market by “fraud.” according to one of the company’s own directors. In a barely publicised deal, dozens of lucrative shops along the streets which make up Petticoat Lane – together with more than […]
East End Homes has been flagged over the size of its board, along with exposure to interest rate volatility. The board has 18 members, of whom eight are residents. The HCA says this structure has constrained skills based recruitment to the board. It adds EEH does not have an explicit […]
Read here a report to the LBTH Cabinet written in 2003 by an aspiring housing official spinning out the vision for the new council sponsored Registered Social Landlord (RSL) EastendHomes Ltd. That ambitious employee was Mr Paul Bloss now the Chief Executive of EastendHomes Ltd. So compare the report […]
EastendHomes Ltd is a registered charity as you can see here on the Charity Comission web site. As a registered charity EastendHomes Ltd have to provide an annual Summary Information Return (SIR) The purpose of the Summary Information Return is to provide the public with better information about the wonderful […]
Well today is a big day for Gordon House on the Glamis estate. 10 of the residents (leaseholders) in Gordon house have applied to go to tribunal about the extremely high service charges in the block. Our case had to be in today. It is interesting to note that we managed to get an awfull ot of data about the accounts and invoices for service charges over the past since 2007. It was certainly very interesting, but very time consuming working through all of this to see what our money is being wasted on.
The Strategic Development Committee voted on the Eric, Treby and Brokesley planning application. The result was 3 votes against the application and 4 votes for. The efforts of residents and all the local councillors were not taken into account when a political decision was made at the SDC meeting at […]