10 Year Record for Maple Lodge!

Fred Tilling (left) received a celebratory tankard
from RLHA Chairman Derrick Smith to celebrate
10 years of Maple Lodge.

Retired leaseholders at Maple Lodge in Poole held a garden party in August 2005 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of buying their own freehold.  Maple Lodge was the first retirement estate in the whole country to successfuly exercise their legal right to force their landlord to sell them their freehold, known as enfranchisement.  Fred Tilling, Chairman of Maple Lodge Residents' Association, was the driving force behind the leaseholders' outstanding achievement.

Leaseholders Choose RLHA

In 1995 Maple Lodge leaseholders chose RLHA to provide them with a management service.  This was followed with a second success for RLHA a year later, when the second retirement estate to enfranchise also chose RLHA.  This was Regents Court in Gravesend.

Fred Tilling commented, "We have been very happy with RLHA as our managing agents.  We find they are responsive to our needs, and work hard to communicate with leaseholders".

RLHA's Scheme Manager June Knight, appointed early in 1996, still works happily at Maple Lodge.