Date : Monday 24th August 2015
Time : 7pm – 9pm
Venue : Conference Room,
Southwark Police Station
323, Borough High St
SE1 1JL
Tabard North
A reflection on Beating the Bounds.
Estate Inspection reports for June.
Email from Russell Edwards re parking permit scheme.
From: Edwards, Russell
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 4:20 PM
To: ‘Peter Davis’
Subject: FW: estate parking update
Dear Peter,
Just to keep you updated in-case you get any enquiries:
The Traffic Management Order is ready to be finalised for 20th July 2015. We had no objections that would force the order back to community council.
Signage is already going up. Susan is meeting with Clarence next Thursday to discuss lineage.
Clarence will then give Susan the go-ahead to send the letters notifying all residents of the scheme, with go-live dates and how the process works. This should ensure that no-one gets a ticket without first being notified, given time to get their permits and so on.
Basically the line is that letters will be going out to all residents affected in the next few weeks and this will tell them of the key dates and the process for getting permits etc., so this is the feedback we will be giving anyone who enquires. They should not worry about getting a ticket as they will all get a letter first.
Hope this is helpful.
Kind Regards
Russell Edwards
Resident Services Manager
( Office: +44 (0) 20 7525 7377
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7525 1799
Email: russell.edwards@southwark.gov.uk
Address: Southwark Council, Area Housing (North Team), Housing Services Department, PO Box 68119, London, SE1P 4GP
Train trip to Brighton, Saturday 25th July.
Committee Meeting, 21st July at 7.00pm.
Video: Tate Local, Sunday 5th July 2009.
Back in 2009 Tabard North participated in the Quicksilver project at Tate Modern with the Cholmondleys.
Parking update: public notice issued 18th June 2015.
Email to Russell Edwards re parking permit scheme.
From: Tabard North <tgntra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Tabard Gardens Traffic Management Order
To: “Edwards, Russell” <Russell.Edwards@southwark.gov.uk>
Cc: “Eatwell, David” <David.Eatwell@southwark.gov.uk>, “Eastham, Karl” <Karl.Eastham@southwark.gov.uk>, “Luthra, Vijay” <Vijay.Luthra@southwark.gov.uk>, “neil.coyle.mp@parliament.uk” <neil.coyle.mp@parliament.uk>, “Dennis, Helen” <Helen.Dennis@southwark.gov.uk>, “Snell, Susan” <Susan.Snell@southwark.gov.uk>, “Parkes, Clarence” <Clarence.Parkes@southwark.gov.uk>, Richard Croly <richard.croly@talktalk.net>
Dear Russell
The contents of your email were passed onto the Tabard Gardens North T&RA Committee, which met on Tuesday 16th June. Members were very disappointed at the continuing delay. They made the following specific points:
a) while the Public Realm Projects Team have 5 other traffic order requests with them, it seems only fair that this application should be given priority on the basis that the first stage you referred to in your email below of 20th March (ie to produce the report following the site visit of 26th March) seems to have taken nearly 3 months
b) there are now incidents of aggression arising as a result of delay – one attendee spoke of non-residents being aggressive to her over parking, another attendee said that both she and her husband had been verbally abused where, as a result of others using spaces where the attendee and her husband have traditionally parked, they were obliged to try to park nearby – still on the Tabard Gardens Estate but in an area where local residents did not recognise that they too were residents. The only solution for this attendee and her husband, to avoid trouble, was to pay for metered parking.
c) the Major Works scheme work-sites have aggravated the problem, meaning that there is less space. One attendee asked if it would be possible to lift parking restrictions that normally apply elsewhere to help alleviate the problem. In fact, I first contacted you about this on 20th April, asking if street parking permits could be issued free of charge to residents of affected blocks, and still await a yes / no response.
In short, those attending the meeting were very disappointed with the fact that this proposal continues to take so long to implement and accordingly, as agreed at the meeting, I am copying this email Peter John, the Leader of the Council as well as to Eleanor Kelly, Chief Executive.
I note that Councillor Vijay Luthra asked Councillor Darren Merrill, Cabinet Member for Environment and the Public Realm, on 9th June to investigate the delay, and eagerly await a response to this enquiry also.
I look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Peter Davis
Chair, Tabard Gardens North T&RA
Knock down London council estates, says housing minister.
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has called for the demolition and redevelopment of council estates across London in a move which he said would help boost the supply of new homes in the capital.
Speaking at the London Real Estate Forum, Lewis said inner city areas were ‘dominated by high-rise concrete blocks from the 1960s and 70s’ yet a number of inner London projects had shown how ‘these concrete blocks can be torn down and replaced with streets’ – the Financial Times reports.
Mr Lewis’s call echoes that of senior Labour figure Lord Adonis, who before the general election published a research paper arguing that councils are some of the biggest land owners in London and should be encouraged to make more efficient use of their holdings.
Tabard Gardens North T&RA 