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More Local Road Disruption – Update on Magee Street

The exit from the Estate via Magee Street on to Kennington Park Road will be blocked for three weeks from 6 July. Magee Street’s one way system will be suspended so that vehicles can leave the Estate via Bowling Green Street (which will continue to be one way) and Kennington Oval.     TFL told us a couple of weeks ago – “A3 Kennington Park Road/Magee Street junction (planned temporary closure for three weeks from 6 July) There will be no vehicular access from Magee Street to A3 Kennington Park Road, while we resurface the ‘raised table’ at the junction. A3 Kennington Park Road – between the junctions with Magee Street and A23 Kennington Road (11 June- 16 July) Bus stop M (located near 240 Kennington Park Road) will be suspended during these works. The nearest northbound bus stop will be Bus stop Y (located near 198 Kennington Park Road). The loading…

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Roadworks, roadworks – all around us! And then they’re going to tunnel underneath …..

Kennington Park Estate is currently an island of tranquillity surrounded by traffic chaos and lots of traffic cones, heavy machinery and people in hard hats and hi-vis jackets. Whether that tranquillity will last when tunnelling for the Northern Line Extension starts, or if Hyde’s redevelopment of the Community Centre site goes ahead, remains to be seen.   The Northern Line Extension   A shaft and head house are being constructed at Kennington Green. The work here has just started and it is anticipated that it will be a worksite for at least three years. Lots of information can be found here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/northern-line-extension.   Oval Triangle Transport for London is making a lot of changes to the roads, junctions, traffic lights, crossings and cycle superhighways all round the Oval Triangle, Harleyford Street, Kennington Park Road and Kennington Road.   The roadworks here are likely to last a year… More information at:…

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Revised proposals for redevelopment on the Estate

The Hyde Group has put forward revised plans for their proposed redevelopment of the Harleyford Street and Community Centre site on the Estate. Their plans are now for a smaller building than before, nine flats for sale, a replacement community centre with outdoor space and either offices or a small retail space on the ground floor facing the main road. Pictures of Hyde’s revised plans can be found here. Hyde’s information pack is here, including a Questions and Answers section. Their ideas for the Community Centre are here. Comments on Hyde’s proposals can be sent to: consult@hyde-housing.co.uk or to: the Hyde Group’s Oval office at Alverstone House, Magee Street, SE11 5TS, or Head Office at 30 Park Street, London SE1 9EQ.

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Developing the Harleyford Road and Community Centre site? – new proposals

The Hyde Group has revised its proposals to build on the Harleyford Road/Community Centre site, which we reported in October (see here), and is exhibiting a new version for consultation on 16 March between 6-8 pm.  

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New buildings on the Estate?

Proposed development of Harleyford Road and Kennington Park Community Centre   The Hyde Group is proposing to replace our Community Centre and the office building at 8a Harleyford Street between Blades and Lockwood Houses with a five-storey block of 13 flats for sale, a small supermarket and a new, smaller Community Centre. Those residents who attended a consultation meeting in September, particularly those living nearest the site, did not welcome the plans. Amongst the concerns expressed was the overlarge size of the proposed development, the loss of daylight to neighbouring flats, the loss of the community centre’s outdoor space, the location of the retail unit’s delivery bay right next to people’s homes, traffic management both in respect of parking and an increased number of large delivery vehicles using the Estate’s narrow roads, and the fact that the proposed flats would solely be for sale rather than available to house local…

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AGM and newsletter September 2014

  *************************************************             The agenda for the meeting can be found here and the papers for the meeting can be found here , here and here.   News from KPE TRA: September 2014   Election of representatives at the Annual General Meeting At the AGM on 24 September we shall be electing our Executive Committee, on which each block on Kennington Park Estate is entitled to have at least one representative – more if there are willing volunteers. We shall also be adopting a new constitution, and asking all members present to elect our Officers. This is to ensure our representatives have clear legitimacy and authority in representing our views to Hyde. This is particularly important at a time when Hyde is proposing to develop a new building on our Estate in the Blades, Alverstone,  Lockwood courtyard, and when we are questioning their commitment to delivering an acceptable…

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TA News

News from KPE TA – July 2014 Repairs – our heads, their brick walls!   Since the start of the new repairs contract with Mears at the end of October last year, the Tenants’ Association has been very active in challenging Hyde Head Office on behalf of our tenants. The contractor (Mears) appears to tenants to have failed to perform to the contract from the beginning and continues to perform poorly. We have been assured that the most senior staff at Head Office are dealing with the problem, holding top level meetings every week. This is what we have been told for over six months now. The best brains at Hyde Head Office have been defeated by one repair contractor and HSH residents have suffered the consequences. ‘Bear with us’ Hyde’s publicity machine has begged us. ‘The necessary steps are being taken!’ we have been told. ‘Bear with us a…

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Meeting 9 July 2014

Kennington Park Estate Tenants’ & Residents’ Association Meeting 9 July 2014 – all residents welcome! Come along and have your say about what’s happening on our Estate!   7.00 pm on Wednesday 9 July 2014 at the Kennington Park Estate Community Centre 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 Notes of last meeting of the Association held on 16 April 2014 (here) Matters  arising from the notes of the last meeting Maintenance of external parts of Kennington Park Estate (Including programme of external decorations) Housing management and estate management issues: Questions and queries from residents for HSH management Progress report on new parking enforcement arrangements Report from TA Executive Committee: 7.1                    Proposal to adopt revised Terms of Reference for KPETA 7.2             Report on negotiations with HSH/Hyde Report from HSH Resident Forum…

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