The Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday,
25th of May 2022 at 1900hrs
in the community hall (next to the Lord Nelson pub, 60a Rowland Hill House).

All residents, leaseholders and tenants, are encouraged to attend in person to elect a new committee for the ensuing year. This will also be an opportunity to meet our housing officer (Debbie Ming), our resident liaison officer (Chuks Amaechi), and our new councillors, Victor Chamberlain, David Watson, and Irina von Wiese.

If you are unable to attend in person, please join the meeting virtually on:

https://meet.google.com/vma-tkwm-anf

or by telephone:

Number: 020 3957 1998
PIN: 656 743 372 1350 #

This meeting is moderated.

Please join Sofique Miah from Soutwark Council to discuss the current major works to Applegarth House, Rowland Hill House (tower) and Vaughan House on
Friday, 25 March 2022, 1000 - 1030 on MS Teams via this link.

The Microsoft Teams application can be downloaded from here for Desktop computers and mobile devices.

Contact Sofique on 07808016972 / sofique.miah@southwark.gov.uk for any questions you may have.

Please join Sofique Miah from Soutwark Council to discuss the upcoming major works to Applegarth House, Rowland Hill House (tower) and Vaughan House on
Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 1800 - 1900 on MS Teams via this link.

Contact Sofique on 07808016972 / sofique.miah@southwark.gov.uk for any questions you may have.

Notes from the meeting:

• Works will start on the 31st for January for 26 weeks (mid July)
• Works will run concurrently on all three buildings (Applegarth, Helen Gladstone and Vaughan)
• The contractor (Standage) will send individual notices as to when balconies need to be accessed
• The communal flower boxes (which are asbestos) may or may not be replaced
• Drainage will be maintained similar to what was done in Rowland Hill House
• There will be a monthly resident liaison meeting

We would like to cordially invite you all to our Christmas Party on Thursday, 16th of December at 7pm.

Due to COVID, we are going to take a different approach this year: we are going to meet outdoors by the monkey puzzle tree at 7pm to sing a few carols. We are going to have hot mulled wine and mince pies for everybody, but they are going to be handed out one-by-one (no buffet this year). The event will be much shorter than in previous year.

Join us on the 15th of July from 2pm to

• Build a new picnic bench
• Distribute lawn seeds
• Plant flowers

Meet by RHH middle doors, square-side

Come join us at our
Summer Party

Saturday, 22 September, 12noon - 3pm.

We'll have food, music, children's entertainment and more.

Outside the community hall, Rowland Hill House.

Always at 7pm in the Residents' Hall, 60a Rowland Hill House, London SE1 0LT.
Contact us if you want to see your concern on the agenda.

On Sunday, 30 July, we will hold a fund raising event for the Helen Gladstone Garden from 3pm onwards (Surrey Row, corner Blackfriars Road).

Prosecco, scones and music.

Now that Southwark Council have sold off the green spaces belonging to the Helen Gladstone Maisonettes and Tower to private developers, we feel the remaining small garden deserves extra attention to give residents a quiet green space they can visit.

Please help support us, so we can make it a safe and beautiful place to come to.

They take place from 10am - 12:30pm with our resident officer Debbie Ming (debbie.ming@southwark.gov.uk); meeting place is the central entrace of Rowland Hill House. Dates for 2017 / 18 are:

SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
A LECTURE ON EXCAVATIONS AT 127-143 BOROUGH HIGH STREET
will be given on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 2016
by
DOUGLAS KILLOCK
OF PRE-CONSTRUCT ARCHAEOLOGY

At 106 The Cut, Waterloo, at 7.30 p.m.
The hall will be open from 7 p.m. and refreshments will be served before the talk.

The hall is almost opposite the Old Vic
and just round the corner from
Waterloo Station.

Nelson Square is getting a makeover

What: The whole of Nelson Square will be re-designed
When: 12 September 2016 - January 2017
Who: Southwark council is driving the work - contact max.nakrani@southwark.gov.uk for enquiries

See http://www.southwark.gov.uk/nelsonsquare for details.

Alternative playgrounds:
Ufford Street re-creation ground
Mint street park
Little Dorrit park

NSCGA are pleased to annouce
Films for all
several social evenings per month,
combined with a film screening,
Commening late summer.

We are very grateful to
United St Saviour's Charity
&
The Axis Foundation
for sposoring this initiative to help us cover the costs for
equipment, licenses, and refreshments.

Please check back for details.

Following the Annual General Meeting on 11 May 2016, a new committee has been elected for the ensuing year:
Chair: Paul Beaumont
Vice Chair: Franco Marigliano
Secretary: Eddie Arnavoudian
Treasurer: Toby Scholz
Committee members: Janet Amery, Ann Fairbrass, James Guess, Sharon Murphy, Maxine Walker

NSGCA endorse the motion to kill the housing bill, propposed legislation to make housing more expensive.
Join the national march on 18 June 2016

Amended Motion to Tenant Council - Kill the Housing Bill April 2016 - Passed unanimously 4.4.16 (the original, unamended motion was passed unanimously by Tenant Council in February 2016) This amended motion inserts two references to the Brownfield Register and replaces support for the national demonstration on 13th March 2016 with support for the national demonstration on 18th June 2016.
This Tenant Council notes:
The Government's Housing and Planning Bill means higher rents, less security and less chance of a home you can afford.

The Bill:

• Makes councils sell off existing council homes
• Removes secure tenancies
• Introduces a "pay to stay" scheme for social housing tenants if two household members' income is more than £30k (£40k in London)
• Means increased rents and longer waiting lists
• Reduces travellers' rights
• Makes councils provide unaffordable "Starter Homes" instead of affordable housing for rent
• Makes councils set up a Brow field Register and give planning "Permission in Principle" to all land on this register

The Kill the Housing Bill Campaign has already organised protests, lobbies and meetings aimed at bringing the Bill down, or making it unworkable. Walworth East Area Forum has already voted to oppose the Housing Bill and urge Southwark Council to do the same.
This Tenant Council believes that the Housing and Planning Bill will not solve the housing crisis. It will make it worse. It will force people from their homes, families and communities, into insecure private renting. This Tenant Council calls on Southwark Council to refuse to implement the Housing Bill and in particular to:

• Not collect data on the incomes of tenants
• Not introduce higher rents for some tenants as part of the government's pay to stay scheme, or any local variant involving a taper system
• Continue to issue secure tenancies to all new tenants
• Not sell off "high value council homes" and refuse to pay the levy imposed by the government to fund Right to Buy to housing association tenants
• Not place social or council housing estates on the Brownfield Register
• Call on the Council Trade Unions to support non co-operation with the Housing Bill and resist any attempt by council chief officers or Government appointees to force through implementation
• Call on TRAs, Area Forums and SGTO to support the Council's position of non-co-operation with the Housing Bill
• Propose a joint campaign of non-co-operation with other Councils opposed to the Bill

This Tenant Council resolves:

• To add its name to the Kill the Housing Bill Campaign
• To urge the delegates of Tenants Council to publicise the Kill the Housing Bill Campaign and send representatives to the organising meetings
• To urge tenants to support the national demonstration on Saturday 181h June 2016
• To urge Area Forums and TRAs and SGTO to adopt this motion and organise local activities against the Bill.

The housing bill is a UK Government Bill, details of which can be found here.
Link to the original bill.

Southwark council conducts monthly walkabouts on the estate to identify and address things that need repairing and improvement the can be made.
They take place from 10am - 12:30pm, meeting place is the central entrace of Rowland Hill House. Dates for 2016 / 17 are:

25 May 2016
22 June 2016
20 July 2016
24 August 2016
21 September 2016
19 October 2016
23 November 2016
21 December 2016
25 January 2017
22 February 2017
22 March 2017

ESTATE SERVICES Nelson Square Gardens

Your Resident Officer is Adama Mansaray -Telephone no: 020 7525 2858
The work we do to maintain your estate includes:

Daily
• Clearing litter and removing any fly-tipping in and around the estate
• Cleaning and mopping lifts
• Sweep and clean communal areas of the estate
• Ensure litter bins are emptied when they are 75% full
• Inspect rubbish chutes and remove blockages

Weekly
• Mop the floor of the main communal area
• Empty dog waste bins Refuse and recycling services
• Refuse collection days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for Rowland Hill House, Vaughan House and Helen Gladstone House. (collection days and frequency are subject to change and we will keep you updated as changes happen)
• Recycling collection days are Mondays for Rowland Hill and Vaughan House and Mondays and Thursdays for Helen Gladstone House.
• Mixed collection days are Wednesdays for Rowland Hill and Vaughan house. None for Helen Gladstone

Estate surgeries

Surgeries take place at Nelson Square Residents and Tenants Association Hall, 60A Rowland Hill House, Nelson Square, at 6.30pm before TRA meetings. All residents. are welcome to discuss any tenancy related issues with Adama Mansaray.

Estate walkabouts

We carry out an inspection of the estate every four weeks with representatives from residents. The inspections take place on a Wednesday from 10.00am - 12.30pm, meeting point is at Rowland Hill House, Central Entrance. Quality checks of our cleaning and grounds maintenance services and identification of communal repairs/issues on the estate are noted at the inspections. All residents are invited to attend these inspections. If you are interested please contact me on the telephone number above.

Useful housing contacts

Rent-Pay by direct debit & deb1Ucred1t card: 020 7525 2600
Pay online @www.southwark.gov.uk/onlinepayment
Repairs - Report repair on 0800 952 4444 (24hours)
Environment - Abandoned vehicles, flytipping, bulky collections (free), graffiti, rubbish collection - 020 7525 2000
Cleaning -Estate.CleaningAdmin@southwark.gov.uk
Southwark antisocial behaviour unit - Tel: 020 7525 2600, email: sasbu@southwark.qov.uk & web:
www.safersouthwark.gov. uk
Leaseholders/ freeholders - Home ownership unit - Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm Tel: 0207 525 2600 or email: hsg. homeownersh ip@southwark.gov.u k
We are committed to providing a high quality service to all our residents.
If you are not getting the level of service we say we will provide tell us by contacting us on the numbers listed above so we can put it right.

Below the finacial statements for the financial year 2015 / 16.

Audited Accounts

The Annual General Meeting

will be held on

11 May 2016

at 7pm

in the residents' hall, 60a Rowland Hill House.

Please show us your support by attending.
We are looking for people to get involved, and join our committee.

Competition

Our association needs a logo, and we want your help with designing it.
Submit your entry by 24 April 2016, either through our website, or through our letter box.

Prize

The winner will take away £100 worth of John Lewis vouchers, the runner-up £50 worth of John Lewis vouchers.

Design

There are no hard limits on what is possible, but the guidelines below should help decide how to approach your entry.

• the design will server various purposes, for example as logo on the web site, as letter head, for business cards, and in official correspondence with residents, the council, funders, parliament, and other official bodies
• the design must usable in digitized form (either natively, or via scan)
• the design should be reproducible in black and white
• a variety of sizes can be accepted, 300px x 186px may be a good place to start

Terms

• The winner and runner-up are chosen by vote of the committee
• The choice of the committee is final, and cannot be challenged
• The winner forgoes all copyright claims to his / her entry by accepting the prize
• The committee may choose to use an alternative design, regardless of the prize being awarded
• Late entries cannot be accepted
• Participants must prove a connection with Nelson Square Gardens (i.e. live here, or care for somebody who lives here)

What our friends have

(for your inspiration)

Wednesday 24 February 7pm

General Meeting

Agenda includes: Dog and Pot and entrance planting new design (BOST speaker), Launch of NSGCA log competition, Estate matters

Venue: TRA Hall, 60a Rowland Hill House

Our next General Meeting (and Christmas Party) will be held on

Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 19:00 - 22:00

in the hall, 60a Rowland Hill House.
All welcome.

Clare was a much valued member of our Community Association serving for 15 years as its Treasurer. But she was much more than that. She was one of those people who worked freely and hard for the public good and for the benefit of others. The sadness felt on this estate when news of her death came spread far and local people expressed not only their sorrow but also their great respect for her.  That same respect was shown in May this year when Clare was  presented with Freeman of the Borough of Southwark at Southwark Cathedral.

She gave vast amounts of time and care for Nelson Square and its community. Nelson Square is much improved today partly because of her effort and her meticulous and forensic  eye for detail.  She cared about people and getting things done properly - but always did that with the paperwork neatly filed, the receipts in order and a quiet determination which was unbeatable.

That forensic eye was also evident when power needed to be held to account. Many Council and other officials have been taken aback during meetings when Clare produced her notes from previous meetings and charmingly reminded them of their promises.

If you walk around the Square today you will see many things that are testaments to her hard work. One striking example was when a massive 27 storey development was proposed just behind the Square. It was Clare who went through their plans and discovered that they were planning to steal one of the gardens that the Community Association had raised funds for and built. This pubic relations disaster led to demonstrations and protests and today that block is – as a direct result of her diligence  – only 10 storeys high.

Another came during major works on the estate when Clare gave endless hours of advice and held the builders to account. She was personally responsible for saving leaseholders many thousands of pounds and also for helping to ensure that the works were finished to a reasonable standard.

Above all she loved to Garden and several of the gardens in the Square benefited from her work. She  was never happier than pulling on her khakis, on her hands and knees and digging out weeds and moss in the cracks of the paving stones in the Square. She loved planting and weeding and it is fair to say her soul is firmly embedded in Nelson Square, she is everywhere

Something broken in your home / house / estate?

Southwark are holding an Estate Action Day for Nelson Square Gardens on
28 August 2015 in the community hall at 60a Rowland Hill House SE1 0LU, where you can raise any issues with our Resident Officer.
Our Resident Officer is Adama Mansaray, adama.mansaray@southwark.gov.uk, 020 7525 2858.

More details on Southwark's website.

Following a number of objections to the latest design for the Nelson Square Gardens (and playground), the council is required to hold another public consultation.

It will be held at Sub Planning Committee B on Wednesday 1^st July at 160 Tooley Street and the meeting will begin at 7pm.

The redesign of Nelson Square has been referred back to the planning committe, following a number of objections concerning the removal of seating spaces, reduction of the number of flower beds and noise concerns.

The planning application ( number 15/AP/1590) can be reviewed here:

http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk:8190/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_STHWR_DCAPR_9560130

A new committee was elected on 21 May 2015 by a unanimous majority of the quorum.

We are:

Chair          Paul Beaumont
Vice Chair  Pamela Kaseke-Mushore
Secretary   Eddie Arnavoudian
Treasurer   Toby Scholz

You can get in touch anytime via the contact form.