To Me
14 Jan
Dear Ms Flores
Thank you for your email addressed to M Sweeney at One Housing Group, copied also to the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).
We are unsure as to why this has been sent to the HCA?
Firstly
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) became the social housing
regulator on 1 April 2012. A new independent Regulation Committee is
responsible for
regulation within the HCA. The committee will set and oversee the
Regulatory Framework, including the standards required of providers.
A copy of our framework can be found at:
The
Role of the regulatory committee is to ensure that social housing
continues to be available to current and future tenants and to support
the supply of new
homes and wider public benefits in a way that represents a fair deal
for taxpayers. The regulator will do this by:
•
Obtaining assurance that providers are governed effectively, financial
viable, and focussed on value for money in relation to their social
housing
assets
•
Where providers are not meeting our economic standards, supporting them
to address problems, and where necessary stepping in to ensure the
social
housing assets are protected
•
Facilitating new entrants to the sector, whilst ensuring they meet its
standards and offer good value to the taxpayer
•
Supporting providers to secure private finance at competitive rates, by
offering assurance to lenders and working with providers and lenders to
develop the lending market
To help social housing tenants get a fair deal by:
• Setting clear consumer standards for social housing tenants
•
When presented with evidence of serious harm or potential serious harm,
addressing the issues quickly and effectively in relation to social
housing
tenants
So
our role is one of primarily an economic regulator. The HCA as
regulator does not have a statutory mandate to deal with complainants
and cannot mediate in
disputes between landlords and tenants or others. Providers
have principal responsibility for dealing with, and being accountable
for, complaints about their service,
and the Tenant Involvement and Empowerment standard requires that they
have clear and effective mechanisms for responding to tenant complaints.
A tenant or other with a complaint against the landlord should raise it
with the landlord in the first instance.
Therefore
our role, regulatory remit and framework document relate to social
housing and social housing tenants. It is not clear as to what your
relationship
is with One Housing Group. If you are not a social housing tenant and
the properties in question are not (they seem to be commercial
properties) then it is unlikely your issues would fall within the role
of the social housing regulator. I would advise in the
first instance to review our regulatory framework document. If your
matters relate to any commercial or business relationship with One
Housing then you will need to continue with your own legal case with any
breaches in the contractual agreement you have with
them.
However for us to consider clearly what information you are bringing to the Regulator can you confirm the following:
Are you a social housing tenant, social housing leaseholder, commercial tenant or have a contractual agreement with One Housing?
Are you still a social housing tenant with One Housing Group?
From
reading our regulatory framework what breaches of our standards to you
believe has happened to you if you are a social housing tenant?
Once we have received this information we can assess your concerns more appropriately in relation to our role.
I hope this information assists you.
Regards
Simon Wadsworth
Referrals and Regulatory Enquiries Advisor
Homes and Communities Agency
Referrals and Regulatory Enquiries Advisor
Homes and Communities Agency
The Social Housing Regulator
1st Floor, Lateral, 8 City Walk, Leeds, LS11 9AT
T: 0113 233 7170
1st Floor, Lateral, 8 City Walk, Leeds, LS11 9AT
T: 0113 233 7170
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From: Scarlet Maguire Gallery [mailto:scarletmaguire@yahoo.com]
Sent: 13 January 2014 15:34
To: lizzie.clifford@housing.org.uk; michelle.smith@housing.org.uk; msweeney@onehousinggroup.co.uk; Monique Jamera; editorial@camdennewjournal.co.uk; Z_mail
Subject: Par for the course - Fw: 106-108 Cromer Street shop availability
Sent: 13 January 2014 15:34
To: lizzie.clifford@housing.org.uk; michelle.smith@housing.org.uk; msweeney@onehousinggroup.co.uk; Monique Jamera; editorial@camdennewjournal.co.uk; Z_mail
Subject: Par for the course - Fw: 106-108 Cromer Street shop availability
Dear Mick Sweeney,
When
people come to my humble one bedroom flat that I have had since I was
19 years old fresh out of the care system, they say "I love your flat". I
think, 'what is there to
love' as they all say it.
When I walk
down my street in Tonbridge Street I look at my two shops 'spaceshift'
and 'Scarlet Maguire Gallery' and I see some sort of devastation of one
of my two shops,
somewhat reminiscent of some bombed out town in Northern Ireland, in
the day, since it was actually given rent free to a tenant for a year to
run almost like a joyrider into the ground, that people in the area
used to be proud of in the same way as with my
flat and they used to say "I love your shops".
So what am I doing right that has created so much wrong and what kind of a mind have I got to keep on fighting?
Should I
just accept in these days of a lack of social justice, corruption and
greed that this is all just par for the course? I don't think so... or
we would all just be apathetic
and accept a life times worth of financial ruination and effectively
slavery with an ongoing acceptance of negative mental health born out of
real situations and not voices in our head which thus far I am glad to
say I have not experienced.
I
have from 2008 to 2014 experienced however wrongful eviction for a
single day late rent payment, been hauled through the county court for a
period of two years, faced legal
costs of £400,000, been misrepresented in full at the Court of Appeal,
ignored in full by the Supreme Court and now am successfully in the
European Court of Human Rights exercising my rights under Article 1
'right to protection of property' and Article 6 'right
to a fair trial' and all this I might add I have done without any legal
help as I was forced to get my justice by representing myself, which is
I must add has been pretty much more than a full time job especially
against the top Landlords and Tenants QC's
in this country employed by the landlord One Housing Group.
There are a few things about my case that can be safely said;
1) I
experienced flooding and leaks that came from the landlords properties
that kept putting me out of business. During those times I was still
forced to pay rent and business
rates.
2)
Even though I paid insurance to the landlord against any such incident
occurring which would protect me from having to pay rent and compensate
me in the event of these types
of occurrences my rights conferred in the insurance policy were not
exercised by my landlord.
My 10 years lease for 'spaceshift' runs out in April 2014 so I approached the landlord in December to say;
Dear Mick Sweeney,
Historically
I am sure your intention was not to ill will me and I have no doubt
that it was influenced by the purposes of the insurance company in
saving money but nevertheless
the deed has been done thus far effectively.
Bearing in mind intention, what do you want for the shop?
After all business is business and I am interested.
Mary Jo VF Flores
To which there was no reply.
To which there was no reply.
I
feel like a cat marking territory and generally know what is going on
with those shops at all times. An estate agent moved in to 'Scarlet' and
I happen to see him marking
my shop as his new territory and sure enough, I find out as I always
do, he wants it. So I approach him and say look mate, there is £400
pounds worth of copper on the bar, there is a grands worth of glass,
there is four grands worth of new boiler and 13 radiators,
five grand in wooden flooring laid throughout, apart from you and I no
one has put in an interest and those assets are mine. I have just about
kept my sanity whilst the last tenant ran the place down. He said to me
'well' and gave me that look as business
has no morals, so I said well I will not be happy and "if I am put to
fighting for my rights, I'll take this one back as well" maybe it was
fate as I may have left him out of it but now I too want to put Scarlet
back!
In
competition law, the landlord should have replied. Yet another mistake I
think Mr Sweeney!!! No justice, no peace, no matter how long it takes.
Jo Flores
spaceshift...
in association with Scarlet Maguire Gallery
104-108 Cromer Street
London WC1H 8BZ
UK
tel: 00 44 (0) 20 7837 6680
mob: 07916 325037
mob: 07916 325037
On Friday, 13 December 2013, 12:37, Scarlet Maguire Gallery <scarletmaguire@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Dear Mick Sweeney,
Historically
I am sure your intention was not to ill will me and I have no doubt
that it was influenced by the purposes of the insurance company in
saving money but nevertheless
the deed has been done thus far effectively.
Bearing in mind intention, what do you want for the shop?
After all business is business and I am interested.
Mary Jo VF Flores
spaceshift...
in association with Scarlet Maguire Gallery
104-108 Cromer Street
London WC1H 8BZ
UK
tel: 00 44 (0) 20 7837 6680
mob: 07916 325037
mob: 07916 325037
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