Month: January 2024

You may have noticed that Craig Dunkley and his team have been working at Little Meadow over the past few days.

So far they have concentrated on the grass verges; mowing the green and the play area; weeding beds and trimming bushes. Shortly they will be topping up the bark mulch on all the flower beds and around the bases of the trees to help prevent weeds.

They have also commenced the clearing of some previously neglected areas – with a lot more still to be tackled.

Craig and his team will be back twice a month from now onwards and subject to satisfactory weather conditions the next two visits will be on 12th and 26th February. Little Meadow should be a tidy and attractive place to live and we believe that a good start has been made!

We hope that we have identified all the things that need to be dealt with, but the directors would welcome your input in case we have overlooked something, so please let us have any feedback via the “Contact the directors” page. As you know, Tim Townsend has now taken up his duties as Managing Agent, acting for LMC, so you may also contact him directly by email tim@alfm.co.uk

Here are some photos to show some of what’s been achieved so far. You can click on any photo to see a slideshow.

It has come to our attention that FirstPort has just written to a number of Little Meadow owners demanding payment of debts which have already been settled in full.

FirstPort was informed by LMC’s directors via a “signed-for” letter and email on 18th September 2023 that they were no longer authorised to collect monies on behalf of LMC or to take any action in respect of alleged arrears; also that future payments would be directed to LMC’s own bank account.

If you should receive a similar communication from them please inform the directors immediately using the website “Contact the directors” form.

FirstPort’s letters were dated 8th January 2024 and, as you are already aware, after 7th January 2024 FirstPort no longer acts for LMC in any way whatsoever.

Update, Monday 15th January:

Just for information we have received a reply from FirstPort to our robust complaint email which says:

“I sincerely apologise you received communication the day after the handover.  I can confirm that our system is showing the site has moved from FirstPort.  As you received communication the day after handover, I can only assume that the system did not update this detail quickly in order for the billing team to see this clearly.”

Let’s hope that’s the end of it, but of course please let us know immediately if you receive any communication from them.

By the way, you may be interested to click on the link below – you can judge for yourself what type of company FirstPort is!

https://www.allagents.co.uk/firstport.co.uk/reviews/