Spring residents meeting 2022

Written By Nell Greenhill

Summary

Spring residents meeting
Thursday 28th April 2022

Attended by:
Residents
Margaret, Nat, Georgia (and Yoshi), Liv, Brian, Sean, Pauline, Jean, Christina, Nell, Rich.

Representing Southern Housing:
Paulina Escobar Cumbicus

Local Councillor
Sam Pallis

Review of last meeting and updates

Review of meeting with Lisa Worth

Paulina discussed new structure for SH with home ownership and home services

Walkabout - South Towerblock

  • TV arials - are these charged? Maintained?  Currently in poor state (cables)

  • Rust on entry doors (same for North Towerblock)

Costs

  • Water charges - is the broken water tap included in this - what’s the breakdown of the costs?

  • Insurance - more than doubled over last year - why what’s the justification >> 134  (2019), 158  (2020), 185  (2021), 412 (2022)

  • Fly tipping - how much does the estate pay for this given it’s mostly off-estate offenders

Cleanliness

  • Boiler House Parties - mostly after weekend, rubbish having to be cleared by estate teams taking up time and effort away from estate duties, on estate in general, play area and basketball court.  Noise and other impacts on estate

  • Food / nappies being thrown from 1st floor and potentially other flat in North Tower block - need to identify flat number so additional action can be taken

  • Spitting in lift (North Tower block)

Gardening

  • Hedges getting bigger (note this has been done post 24.04) but what schedule is this on, how often?

  • Bushes outside front of North Tower block seems to be less frequent, rubbish specifically

  • Notice board - better visibility of jobs list (current and ongoing)

  • Sand on estate - still seems to be there

Lighting

  • Still a problem on estate, very erratic.

Misc

  • Pillar on one side of car part entrance loose, looks likely to topple

  • Further discussion of Gates on entrance of estate, some pro, but concerns around deliveries, opening / locking times, responsibilities, cost

  • CCTV - dummy / recorded vs live all discussed, would like to continue discussing options

  • Tenants - white goods, responsibility depends on agreement but generally it’s tenants for upkeep of white goods, but can depend.

  • Illegal parking on estate - becoming a problem - very aggressive

Nell Greenhill
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