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P.F.C. Begg Esq.,
Solicitor,
9th Floor, Metro Building,
1 Butterwick, Hammersmith, London W6 8DL
Ref: Mrs Michele Hillgarth & now Mitre House Management Limited & RBK&C
10 June 2016
Further to my meeting with Mr. Belafonte, RBK&C, Tenancy Relations Officer RBK&C on Wednesday 8 June, I would welcome some clarification on the various points we discussed in some detail during our one hour discourse.
As you will recall from my letter of 28 May 2016 (copied to Mr. Belafonte) I stated that I would be making it abundantly clear, with irrefutable proof which you have already been supplied with, including that supplied well prior to your initial request to Mr Belafonte) that information obviously supplied to you by Mrs Hillgarth and then repeated by you in corre- spondence to date to me is nothing short of a pack of lies.
Is it or is not already established that no request was made by Mrs Hillgarth nor any other lessee until Mrs Hillgarth’s email request on 17 December 2015. That is a date 17 days outside of the statutory 6 months available to her under the terms of her lease and under the terms of the statute as you are more than well aware.
Is that disputed, if so please substantiate? Mrs Hillgarth’s references to requests from other lessees is totally unsubstan- tiated, totally untrue and proof perfect typical of her misinformed [and disproven] accusations to date. I am more than willing to accept proof of any previous request made by any lessee for invoices relating to our YE2014 Service Charge Accounts (or indeed any other set of Service Charge accounts, 2012 - 2015). I am not, though, willing to accept alleged erroneous references to supposed requests without evidence, be that telephone recorded or email correspondence.
Mr. Belafonte also made reference to statutory Section 20 Notices possibly being non-complied with or indeed being misleadingly not correctly adhered to in their intended expenditures.
If my true and exact explanations to date to you in various correspondence including most explicitly in my written replies on your 13pp 23 March 2016 letter have not been sufficient please advise. To briefly recap:
The final s.20 Notice dated 22 June 2014 (and approved) made clear funds available were £98, 262 to cover an agreed AR Lawrence costing of £105,019 to include VAT & Fees. Hence the request from all lessees of £2000 each to both cover the shortfall, any unforeseen contingencies for only the works covered within the AR Lawrence schedule (a Schedule of Works of Works drawn up by our Surveyor in December 2013 on which all tenders were based) and to have an acceptable float for normal, possible, usual emergencies such as the lift requiring repairs, a flood, an electrical fault etc.
This additional £2000 contribution by all lessees was discussed at length months before the final s.20 Notice 22 June and was eventually agreed by all lessees as being the lesser of two evils. The other evil was a far higher contribution if
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