KPE TRA meeting 24 November 2023 – all Estate residents welcome!
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Hyde’s presentation of its redevelopment plans
These are the slides Hyde presented to residents at the meeting on 20 October 2023.
Residents’ meeting, 6.30pm Friday 20 October 2023
All Estate residents and Community Centre users are invited to come to a meeting to discuss Hyde’s proposals to redevelop the site of the Community Centre and the Oval Arts Depot. (hover over and click the arrow at the bottom of the poster to read more on page 2……)
COVID-19 Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive and unprecedented danger to all our lives and livelihoods. STAY AT HOME AND SAVE LIVES! The situation and measures being taken are changing hourly and daily. Locally many volunteers have joined together in Mutual Aid groups to befriend and support those stuck at home with shopping, collecting prescription. You can contact the group covering Oval Ward and Kennington Park Estate through the Lambeth Mutual Aid Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/LambethCOVID19MutualAid/ Lambeth Council is working hard to help those who are most vulnerable and support local businesses, workers and residents. The Leader of the Council has written today (Lockdown Day 2) about some of the things they are doing “Today we are launching a helpline for vulnerable people to contact the council as part of our Community Hub which is the command centre for their protection and where food and medicine delivery,…
Communal repairs
Have you reported a communal repair to Hyde during 2019? If so, they are surveying your experience – https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CommunalRepairFeedback/
Come to our 2019 Annual General Meeting: 24 September
Rents and service charges from 1 April 2017
Hyde is currently sending out notifications of our rents and service charges for the coming financial year. The Government has instructed Housing Associations like Hyde to reduce rents by 1% (roughly £1 per week) but there is no such restriction on service charges. The charges we have to pay from 1 April are estimates and we advise everyone to look at the figures very closely. Check them against last year’s bill if you still have it. Hyde should have sent out statements of how much was actually spent on services during 2015-16 before Christmas; these figures are meant to form the basis of the estimates for the coming year. These statements are now several months overdue. The Tenants Association has made it clear that we find this unacceptable, particularly since we submitted comments on the invoices for the Estate at the beginning of November. The contract to monitor the CCTV…
OUR COMMUNITY CENTRE IS UNDER THREAT! SAVE OUR COMMUNITY CENTRE!
At the heart of Kennington Park Estate in Oval is our Community Centre which is well used and loved. Hyde Housing now plans to get rid of our Community Centre. In its place Hyde wants to build expensive flats for private sale. ***** UPDATE – Hyde has extended the deadline for its consultation on the future of our Community Centre. We now have until 5pm on Friday 6 January 2017 to tell them we oppose their plans to demolish our Centre. You can do so here https://www.hyde-housing.co.uk/tenants/resident-/community-centres-review/ And keep signing and sharing our petition here https://www.change.org/p/save-oval-s-kennington-park-community-centre ***** The TA has responded to Hyde’s Review of Community Centres, expressing our opposition to their plans for Kennington Park Community Centre. This is what we have said in our conclusion: “This is a manifestly flawed, fraudulent Consultation. We believe that the words “existing plan” are being used as a smokescreen for Hyde’s true intention…
Visitors’ Parking Permits – Piloting a New Scheme
The Tenants Association has successfully negotiated a pilot scheme to test a new system of issuing visitors’ parking permits in the Alverstone/Lockwood/Blades courtyard. You will be able to buy up to five weeks’ worth of tickets (ie. 10) which you can use on any one day up until the end of 2016. This means you can have one handy for those unannounced visits by relatives or maintenance engineers, particularly at weekends. The pilot will run from 15 February to 15 April. Let us know if you think it’s working or if you want to suggest changes. Here is Hyde’s letter about it: To All Residents Alverstone House, Blades House, Lockwood House Dear residents, Re: Visitor Parking Permit Pilot for Alverstone, Blades and Lockwood House. We are writing to inform you that we are working with the Kennington Park Estate Tenants and Residents Association to pilot a new scheme for visitor’s parking permits for Alverstone,…
Mears Repairs Surgery – 10 November
Mears and Hyde are holding a ‘Repairs Surgery’ on 10 November from 12 to 2 pm in Kennington Park Community Centre. If you have any outstanding repairs or repairs issues this is your chance to talk to the people responsible.