Residents of Peters Village fight have set tp a residents' association to fight ‘extortionate’ service charges on their new-build housing development.
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00:00 Orbit Homes are ripping us off with our service charges. I moved into a one bedroom flat in
00:08 Peter's Village, it's a new build, and when I first moved in the service charges were
00:12 estimated at about £1,200. I got a letter through the post last week and my latest charge
00:21 is now £2,500. So in three years it's gone up by more than 100%, which is absolutely
00:29 extortionate. And quite frankly I'm just tired of it because we don't know, I don't know
00:34 every time I open my letterbox if I'm going to get another letter asking for more money
00:38 from them. Amongst other things it's lighting and the little walkway between the road and
00:44 my actual house is pitch black. You cannot see a thing, you can't see a hand in front
00:49 of your face until you actually walk through it and approach the first house when their
00:52 automatic light comes on outside. Other than that it's like Mugger's Paradise, you can't