KPE Tenants’ Association News – September 2016
More information on the News items below can be found in our Annual Report 2015-16 here
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Legal Advice Session – 28 September 2016
The TA is organising a free independent Legal Advice Session with an experienced solicitor who specialises in Housing issues. All tenants welcome!
Next TA meeting – 20 July 2016
To tenants and leaseholders of Kennington Park Estate You are invited to attend a Meeting of the Kennington Park Estate Tenants’ Association 6.30 pm for prompt 7.00 pm start on Wednesday 20 July 2016 at the Kennington Park Estate Community Centre 6.30 pm – local councillor and Hyde staff available for private help or advice, plus refreshments Prompt start of meeting at 7.00 pm All tenants and leaseholders are members of the Association and welcome to attend meetings A G E N D A Welcome and Introductions OVAL HOUSE SUMMER SCHOOL – Naomi, Oval House’s Head of Youth Arts, and Sophie from Hyde Plus have been invited to tell us about the Creative Youth Project and other local activities Apologies for absence Minutes of the last meeting of the Association held on 27 April 2016: (here) For approval and matters arising, including 2.1: Proposed merger between Hyde, London and Quadrant and…
Next TA meeting – 27 April 2016
To tenants and leaseholders of Kennington Park Estate You are invited to attend a Meeting of the Kennington Park Estate Tenants’ Association To be held at 7.00 pm on Wednesday 27 April 2016 at the Kennington Park Estate Community Centre 6.30 pm – local councillor and Hyde staff available for private help or advice plus refreshments Prompt start of meeting at 7.00 pm All tenants and leaseholders are members of the Association and welcome to attend meetings A G E N D A Welcome and Introductions Apologies for absence Minutes of the last meeting of the Association held on 17 February 2016: For approval and matters arising (here) New cleaning and grounds maintenance contract: Latest information from Tony O’Connell, Estate Services Contracts Manager Housing management and estate management issues: Reports and queries from tenants and leaseholders for the attention of HSH management Proposed merger between Hyde, London & Quadrant and East Thames…
Our Rents for 2016-17
UPDATE 14 April 2016 – KPE RESIDENTS – MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR SERVICE CHARGE, RENT AND DIRECT DEBIT NOTIFICATIONS CAREFULLY. WE HAVE FOUND A NUMBER OF ERRORS! Contact your TA reps (see contact details in the right-hand column) if you need help in understanding these bills. **************************************************** Tenants will have received a notice from our landlord, Hyde, this week notifying us of the amount of rent due from 4 April 2016. The TA considers this notice misleading, to say the least, as it gives the impression that tenants will have to pay less than we currently pay. This is very unlikely to be the case because we pay service charges on top of our rents. Last year some residents saw their service charges nearly double and the TA has no expectation that they won’t be increased again this coming year. Indeed, most residents have already been informed (in the…
Next TA meeting – 17 February 2016
To tenants and leaseholders of Kennington Park Estate You are invited to attend a Meeting of the Kennington Park Estate Tenants’ Association To be held at 6.30 pm for 7.00 pm on Wednesday 17 February 2016 at the Kennington Park Estate Community Centre All tenants and leaseholders are members of the Association and welcome to attend meetings 6.30 pm – Oval Ward councillor and Housing Officer available to consult for advice plus refreshments Prompt start of meeting at 7.00 pm A G E N D A Welcome and Introductions Apologies for absence Minutes of the last meeting of the Association held on 18 November 2015 here: For approval Matters arising from the minutes of the last meeting Housing management and estate management issues. (Reports and queries from tenants and leaseholders for the attention of HSH management) Briefing on new cleaning and grounds maintenance contract: Tony O’Connell (Hyde Estate Services Contracts…
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,…
More on the Housing and Planning Bill
Kennington Park Estate TRA has joined with other TRAs in Stockwell to write to the Board of the Hyde Group calling on them not to implement the Pay to Stay proposals in the Bill. Our letter and the Hyde Group’s reply are here. Detailed briefings on the contents of the Bill by our Chair, Joan, and the ‘Kill the Housing Bill’ campaign can be found by clicking here and here.
Next TA meeting – 18 November 2015
The next TA meeting is on Wednesday 18 November at 7pm in the Community Centre. The agenda can be found here
Where to Get Advice
Many residents are having disrepair problems and are frustrated at the length of time Hyde takes to deal with them – if they fix them at all! Sometimes the only thing we can do is get help from a solicitor or local councillor in enforcing our rights as tenants. We can help you with that. Contact us (see right sidebar or here) and we will give you the details of a solicitor who is helping several KPE tenants. There is also free advice (on benefits, debt, money, etc as well as housing) available at One Lambeth Advice (run by Lambeth Council and the Citizens Advice Bureau) at https://onelambethadvice.org.uk/ or by phone 0800 254 0298. Contact details for our local councillors and our MP can be found here. And our neighbours in Stockwell have organised an advice session on 3 November which is open to KPE residents.