For me and over 250 households, Ringley has turned our homes into a waking nightmare. Their behaviour goes far beyond incompetence. It is negligent, unethical, and feels outright criminal. Let us start with the basics. Fire safety. Ringley ignored repeated warnings about intolerable fire risks for years until the London Fire Brigade was forced to threaten a prohibition order that would have made hundreds of us homeless. Only when the council stepped in with taxpayer-funded emergency measures were lives protected. Ringley failed so completely that Hillingdon Council has already said they will recover costs directly from them. This alone proves just how severe this mismanagement is. Instead of accountability, Ringley has lied to residents, tried to intimidate leaseholders, and spread misinformation. They even attempted to convince us that we would be billed for safety costs, when in reality the council made it clear they would pursue Ringley. Their dishonesty is malicious and designed purely to protect themselves and their freeholder clients. Their disregard for residents’ wellbeing goes even further. They deliberately switched off the lifts, claiming they could not be inspected due to lack of funds. Leaseholders looked up quotes and even offered to cover the modest inspection costs themselves, but Ringley refused. This has left families, elderly residents, and parents with young children stranded. One resident who had just given birth to twins called Maryanne Bowring directly for help. Her shocking response was, “Ethiopians have kids in the middle of the fields.” This contempt for residents is beyond belief. Now, in their latest act of cruelty, they plan to rip out our balconies, which are the only source of fresh air for smaller flats, under the guise of safety. These balconies form part of our property under leasehold, yet Ringley wants to take them away rather than secure them properly from the outside. This is not about safety. It is about covering themselves from lawsuits, no matter the cost to our health or quality of life. They have known that the balconies are unsafe for years. The stress and terror they cause residents is unbearable. Ringley works only for the freeholder, not for the people who actually live in these buildings. They hike service charges, ignore repairs, endanger lives, switch off basic amenities like lifts, and then spin lies to cover their tracks. Their director parades as a TV property “expert” while presiding over one of the most shameful and dangerous regimes in the industry. Do not ever buy into a development managed by Ringley. You are not just paying for bad service. You are buying into fear, neglect, financial exploitation, and unsafe homes. This company should be investigated by regulators and held legally accountable for the misery they inflict on us. They will probably reply to this review with another bunch of lies. Do not believe a single word they say. They don’t care about anyone but themselves and their precious freeholder.