A Websters Surveyors donation Kisharon £1,500 donatedLearning disability Kisharon supports children and young adults with learning disabilities and special needs, predominantly in Hendon, Golders Green and Stamford Hill. Founded in 1976, its vision is a world in which people with learning disabilities have the same opportunities as their peers. Today, Kisharon offers education, opportunity and support to children and adults …
North London Hospice
A Websters Surveyors donation North London Hospice £2,000 donatedEnd-of-life care North London Hospice, established in 1984, provides people with potentially life-limiting illnesses with 24-hour physical, emotional and spiritual care, encouraging its patients to live life to the fullest, whatever their condition. Together with Dan Knowles, we have donated a total of £2,000 to the charity — made as two separate …
Regenerate
A Websters Surveyors donation Regenerate £2,000 donatedCommunity support Regenerate provides support to young people in Roehampton and the surrounding areas. One of its centres sits in the heart of the Alton Estate in Roehampton — an estate undergoing regeneration that we have been involved with. With local-authority funding for youth work across London heavily cut in recent years, the work …
PACE
A Websters Surveyors donation PACE £1,750 donatedDisability support PACE Charitable Trust is a voluntary organisation that promotes the inclusion and participation of young disabled people in sport, leisure and social activities. Since its establishment in 2004, PACE has gone from strength to strength in delivering competitive sport programmes — helping its members build confidence, communication and physical and social skills, …
INTRODUCING 3 YEAR TENANCIES
The Government are currently looking at increasing the minimum term for tenancy agreements to be three years. Research suggests that 81% of tenants have agreements for 6 or 12 months whilst the average tenant remains at a property for 4 years. The justification is clear. It can be very difficult for tenants to uproot their lives if their Landlord evicts …
HEATHROW EXPANSION LEGAL CHALLENGE REJECTED
The High Court on 1st May 2019 rejected legal challenges against Heathrow Airport’s decades-long campaign to expand the aviation centre. The challenge was brought by local councils, residents, environmental charities and London Mayor Sadiq Khan after the House of Commons voted in favour of building the runway, approving transport secretary Chris Grayling’s National Policy Statement by 415 votes to 119 …
Developers commit to combat Toxic leases
About time, many may say! Many leases of newbuild properties have rather onerous ground rents, described as toxic. Ground rents are typically annual payments paid by a leaseholder to a freeholder to reflect that the latter owns the ground on which the property sits. For too long, they have been seen as an income stream for freeholders. A way to …
Leasehold reform
The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) committee recently released its report into leasehold housing, in their report the select committee set a range of recommendations to the government to implement: • Ensure that commonhold becomes the primary model of ownership of flats in England and Wales• Require ground rents on new leases to be set at a peppercorn level …
Removal of the borrowing cap
As long as anyone at our company can remember, successive governments have talked up the need to build more housing. Also, as long as we can remember, the country has failed to do so. This has been the case for a number of reasons including supply and demand cycles and a complicated and protracted planning system. Tinkering at the edges …