Bill Pearson
Bacup East Lancashire
Founder member Bacup & Stacksteads Estates Management Board/TMO involved since 1987.
Past involvement in Bacup Against Crime/ SRB-NWTRA & Lancashire Voices.
Recent activity
Comments (43)
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Comment on: History lessons
Following in the footsteps of the Housing Corporation the TSA had the same bias towards the landlords " same faces in different seats with the same views of tenants. All gloss and no substance, all talk and no real action. A change of name results the same will the HCA be any different will we ever get a regulator who works with the tenants.
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Comment on: Cashback scheme should help tenants find work
In many cases it could be called Tenants Crashback.
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Comment on: Northern landlords merge to save cash
Our so called local housing association has been subjected to 2 partnerships (mergers) and as a result has been sidelined and reduced to the role of a very junior partner resulting in a reduction of service to the tenants. Everything is done through the GROUP and is not what the tenants voted for in the transfer so once again we are sliding back into the past with urgent repairs being classed as non urgent and tenants waiting weeks for repairs to be done and often not done properly. Some fitting done when upgrades were done to properties some components are non standard eg shower curtain rails where replacement fittings can only be obtained through the company and really need a plumber to replace them after a repair is reported as the gliders that hold the curtain are so small that the washers need a knife to get them off. Disabled and elderly tenants struggle to remove the curtains when they need wash them.
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Comment on: Shapps warns 'time running out' for landlords
annual reports are as clear as mud in some cases they don't say how much they pay consultants and they still use the schedule of rates which allows them to charge ridiculous prices for repairs £90+ for a £10 internal door. Their excuse is they charge National Housing Federation schedules and there are administration fees on top.
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Comment on: Shapps warns 'time running out' for landlords
annual reports are as clear as mud in some cases they don't say how much they pay consultants and they still use the schedule of rates which allows them to charge ridiculous prices for repairs £90+ for a £10 internal door. Their excuse is they charge National Housing Federation schedules and there are administration fees on top.
Discussions (1)
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Tenants Rights
As a founder member of an EMB (1989) and now the chair of the TMO I thought I had seen it all in the 23 years I have been involved but I was so wrong. Since our LSVT we have been bullied, blackm
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Posted in: The Enemy within
We seem to be slowly but surely sliding back into the thirties as some one remaked in a national newspaper soon we will see hunger marches and hear the sound of jackboots as the new breed of blackshirts (blueshirts) take total control of the country.
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Posted in: Tenant cashback
Over the 30 odd years I have been asocial housing tenant I have replaced skirting boards, architraves, doors including an outside door to an alleyway between the house and outbuilding for security and floorboards that should have been done by contactors when upgrading work was done. Plus pipe clips that were not fitted when the central heating was installed to name but a few. All his on a state pension.
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Posted in: Something seriously wrong with recruitment
This has been going on for some time in our so called local housing association. Staff have left or taken redunancy to be replaced by staff from from elsewhere in the group so the promise made to the tenants of a local housing association run by local people has been broken.
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Posted in: How can you have Charitable Status and also be called Private
By the same token how can a Housing association be registeredas an Industrial & Provident Society and be run as a private company without it's so called members having the same say as a real I P S voting members onto a management committee who then select the officers to run it.
Does charitable aims in the company blurb mean they are in fact a charity, or is it just words on paper with no real meaning. Under the Housing Confederation model rules tenants on the board of the company have no loyalty to the tenants who elected them only to the company and who or what is the company without tenants? Without tenants there would be no company.
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Posted in: Should affordable housing be affordable?
If the cost of living was reduced by reducing the energy bills which are a major drain on income then people would be able to live within their means.