A recent FOI request (FOI 12797 Stock Transfer of Housing) has revealed just how much public money Social Landlord Eastend Homes Ltd got when homes & land were transferred (mostly for no cost) during Housing Choice. A waping £107 million from the DCLG was trousered by the council sponsored landlord […]
Irregularities
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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 […]
Eastend Homes Ltd have a long and glorious history of ineptitude in a variety of areas, In fact an inebriation session in a fermentation station seems out of their skills envelope at times. Not to mention planning law and the inability to add up the true number of social homes […]
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 […]
Eastendhomes – have they finally lost the plot? Fear not trusted residents…..brought in at your expense are the Metropolitan Police to help them find it (See council tax bill for further details). It seems that the old codgers on the Glamis Residents Association Board in Shadwell have been a little […]
Despite residents’ opposition the Council granted consent at Eastend Homes infill construction proposals at St Georges Estate. A Decision Notice was issued in January 2009 and 21 Conditions need to be discharged prior to the commencement of works. Without the relevant authorisation from the Council, Eastend Homes removed three fine […]
1. Consent was granted by LBTH Strategic Development Committee in August 08 for an application for development consisting of 139 ‘market units’ and 54 ‘affordable units’ (with a tenure mix of 23 ‘intermediate’ and 31 ‘social rented’ units) together with refurbishment of existing units and provision of community facilities. 2. […]
Residents of Glamis Estate were told recently by EeH’ Director of Housing John Henderson that EeH is having another think about promises made to provide a permanent new local housing office on Glamis Estate. EeH’ latest idea is that we should toddle along Cable Street to St Georges Estate and […]
Planning Application Update At the last meeting, 25 June, the Committee voted 3 against and 2 for the plans with 1 abstention. It was then decided that Council officers were to present a supplemental report setting out the reasons for refusal and the implications of the decision. So you may […]
In relation to EeH planning application for St Georges Estate infill construction scheme, various irregularities have been observed: a) LBTH decided that no Environmental Impact Assessemnt (EIA) was required. Instead it requested approximately 12 environmental studies to be submitted and considered prior to the decision for consent. This did not happened, the scheme was considered without important studies in place and some of them were submitted afterwards or attached to the Decision as discharge conditions.