16_PBC to RBK&C_10-6_16 (2pp)

10 May 2016 (by courier)
S. Belafonte Esq., Tenancy Relations Officer, Town Hall, Hornton St, London W8 7NX
MITRE HOUSE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
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Re: Section 21 & 22 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (Mrs Hillgarth/PFC Begg/Mitre House Mngt Ltd)
I do hope you received our letter of 27 April couriered over to the Town Hall, Hornton Street as directed.
Please find attached to this letter a copy of our recent letter to Mr. PFC Begg, the Solicitor who had approached you on or around 20th April regarding his client, Mrs M. Hillgarth, with some serious accusa- tions to do with our Management of Mitre House, 124 Kings Road, London SW3 4TP
As you will hopefully have noted from our letter in reply to yours of 22 April 2016, we do not consider any of Mr. Begg’s concerns to be in any way correct, true or indeed enforceable.
His client, Mrs M. Hillgarth of Flat 5 Mitre House has a clause in her lease stating unambiguously:
Schedule 8_pp17 (5)_The Lessor shall procure that there shall be open to inspection by the Lessee
during normal working hours during the daytime on reasonable notice in writing at the Lessor’s premises
for a period of six months following the date of the Accountant’s certificate the audited accounts for the preceding Maintenance Year and the Lessor shall further supply to the Lessee a summary of such accounts [we are though quite content to supply photostat copies on any rendezvous despite no obligation]
We maintain that no formal request was made until Mrs Hillgarth’s somewhat informal request dated 17 December 2015 to view documents from the 2014 accounts which were dated 30 May 2015.
This request was acknowledged and advised that due to the oncoming Christmas break, it was an inoppor- tune time to do until the New Year. No further request/reminder was followed up until Mr. Begg’s letter of 23 March 2016.
We are advised by our Solicitor that there is no legal obligation to comply if requests are not formally made within this six month period. We do not consider a request made on 17 December 2015 to view 2014 year end accounts dated 30 May 2015 to be within that six month period.
Despite that, we did initially offer to comply but it was ignored. I am hopefully the case is now closed but if you still consider the matter ongoing, or indeed Mr. Begg does, I would still welcome your kind offer to attend your office to further discuss.
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