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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Leigh Pemberton [mailto:clQ@sw12grou,p.com]
Sent: O7 June 2017 16:03
To: rplondon@hmcts.gsi.gov.uk
Cc: Bruce R. Maunder Taylor; bcook@maundertaylor.co.uk
Subject: Mitre House, 124 Kings Road, London. SW3 4TP - L&TA 1985 - Section 20C. L&TA 1987 - Section 24(1)
Dear Ms Burrow,
l am a leaseholder at Mitre House and am writing to you to express my support for the action currently being taken by Michele Hillgarth and Maria Leoni-Sceti in the First-Tier Property Tribunal against Mitre House Management Limited; l would be grateful if you would make my position known to the judge hear- ing the case.
(comment/reply) Would be more correct to state that “my company is the owner and landlord of Flat 8 Mitre House in which I have a very elderly lady tenant whose ongoing tenancy agreement makes clear no obligation on my part for any repairs nor maintenance nor normal landlord/tenant attention required. I have though requested of Mr Brown-Constable (Second Defendant) to attend to certain requirements on my behalf on occasion and I have been reliably informed that Mr Brown-Constable keeps a very close attentive and watchful eye out for this tenant including making repairs and improvements at no charge to either herself or myself. I have only ever made very irregular visits to Mitre House, I have not witnessed the interior since the 2014 Works’ programme and I have never met Mr Brown-Constable in the twenty years I have been owner of Flat 8 despite he being Chairman of the Residents’ Association. Mr Brown- Constable initially contacted me in 2011 politely informing me of the Head Lease Auction and inviting me to participate which I declined to do.” (end comment/reply)
Mitre House Management Limited, acting through its director Paul Brown-Constable, has proved the most unreliable and unsatisfactory manager of the property. In particular I have found it deeply unsatis- factory that l have been completely unable, despite a number of attempts, to obtain a proper understand- ing of who has been paid how much, and for doing what, in relation to a substantial refurbishment of the property that was carried out in the autumn of 2014.
(comment/reply) Would be more correct to state that in various correspondence between (Applicant) Mrs Hillgarth’s Solicitor and (Second Defendant) Mr Brown-Constable over a period of twelve months, various accusations were made regarding Mr Brown-Constable’s refusal to oblige requests for accounts’ information from myself, the Applicant and other lessees. This was denied by Mr. Brown-Constable on multiple occasions and indeed he requested evidence of these requests. None was ever forthcoming including regarding the references to my alleged multiple requests and in a Witness Statement signed by the Applicant on 10th August 2016 she states in (para 73) “...many of the lessees, including myself, were so completely exasperated and exhausted with dealing with him that we failed to take advantage, within the prescribed period of six months from the date of the service charge accounts, of section 22 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 to inspect the invoices supporting MHML's service charge accounts summary.” I did though make a request for information on 29 September 2016 following prompting from Mrs Hillgarth and received a reply by return with both compre- hensive explanations and relevant documents. (end comment/reply)
This information was not available from the service charge accounts and nor have we been able to dis- cover it subsequently from Mr Brown-Constable. He continues to tell us that information is available on the Mitre House Management Limited website, but that website (as he knows) is designed to keep us in a state of confusion and is completely unusable.
(comment/reply) Subsequent to a Witness Statement signed and made by Mr Leigh Pemberton on 12 September 2016 but not presented as evidence until 31 May 2017, Mr Brown-Constable contacted Mr Leigh Pemberton with information of the 2014 Workings which had been available on the Mitre House website since 3 April 2016 along with substantial and very comprehensive other relevant documents ranging from 2006 - 2017 for the benefit of all lessees or research or legal references. It is quite incor- rect, as a perusal of the website amply evidences, that the website was designed to confuse or be unus- able. This comment reflects an exact same comment made by Mrs Hillgarth in her attempt to deride its use. I have practiced as a Graphic Designer since 1969 and well accomplished in website design and navigation. (end comment/reply)