Parking update – email to Russell Edwards.

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From: Tabard North<tgntra@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:58 PMSubject: Re: Tabard Gardens Traffic Management Order

To: “Edwards, Russell” <Russell.Edwards@southwark.gov.uk>
Cc: “Eatwell, David” <David.Eatwell@southwark.gov.uk>, “Maugham, Claire” <Claire.Maugham@southwark.gov.uk>, “Eastham, Karl” <Karl.Eastham@southwark.gov.uk>, “Luthra, Vijay” <Vijay.Luthra@southwark.gov.uk>, “simon@simonhughes.org.uk” <simon@simonhughes.org.uk>, “Coyle, Neil” <Neil.Coyle@southwark.gov.uk>, “Snell, Susan” <Susan.Snell@southwark.gov.uk>, “Parkes, Clarence” <Clarence.Parkes@southwark.gov.uk>
Dear Mr Edwards

Thank you for your email of 27 March where you confirmed to Tabard North that the walkabout and plan for the area had been competed and that the team would now be moving to document production so that the Traffic Management Order could be introduced.

There is a Committee meeting of the TR&A tomorrow evening and it would be very helpful if you could confirm before then whether the Order has now been issued or, if not, when this can be expected.

I have still not seen the public notice advertising this parking scheme, despite checking regularly both Southwark News and the London Gazette. This would make your estimate of ‘no longer than 42 days’ unachievable for the introduction of the scheme. Indeed, you were informing residents in January of this year that ‘the scheme will be ready to go live no later than February 2015’. I would be grateful if you would now provide a realistic timescale for the introduction of the parking permit scheme.

Regards

Peter Davis
Chair, Tabard Gardens North T&RA

Email from BVAG: meeting, Wednesday 22nd April

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Important meeting
Wednesday 22nd April 6.30pm Globe House

It is now only five weeks until Southwark run out of time for determining our application for NF status. Of course, our application was made some three years ago but the Council traded on the fact that there was no statutory time limit for determining applications until introduced by the Government in January to stop local authorities using the simplest method of avoiding meddling locals sticking their nose into the furtive and lucrative business of planning.

The Council have been reduced to contriving some basis for refusal. Rather clutching at straws they have come up with:
1.We are not representative enough
2. Our constitution is not good enough
3. We must think the Council’s own planning policy is incapable of improvement

After numerous invitations the Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Planning and Transport, Mark Williams has agreed to attend our meeting, on Wednesday 22nd April, accompanied by Head of Planning, Simon Bevan, to explain what we will need to do to meet the Council’s high standards of community engagement and responsiveness.

Of course, if the meeting is unimpressed by the reasoning of Messrs Williams and Bevan – not an unknown reaction – it may come to them explaining how they are legally empowered to refuse our application.

Unless they can find the excuse they are looking for our application will have to be approved by 25th May 2015. Thereafter we will finally be able to get on with what we started three years ago and introduce some local wishes and initiatives to shape our immediate environment.

This meeting not to be missed. All welcome.

T&RA Constitution updated.

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At the Annual General Meeting on 17th March 2015, two changes to the Constitution were agreed:

1. Clause 12 was altered to reduce the number of General Meeting from four to two:
“Not less than two of the committee’s meetings shall be General Meetings of the Association open to all members to speak and vote.”
2. Clause 15 was altered to reduce the quorum for General Meeting from 15 to 10:
“The quorum for all General Meetings shall be one-third of membership or 10 members whichever is the less.”

Copies of the newly amended Constitution are available in PDF format (together with copies of other policies and procedures) here:

https://tabardnorth.wordpress.com/constitition/?preview=true&preview_id=45&preview_nonce=8993d1bb34