Volume 1, Issue 4

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

SPRING SOCIAL

WANTED

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH UPDATE

RORP RUNNING CLUB

HOW TO ADVERTISE

LOCAL PLUMBER

THE ROWANS SUR-GERY

SPRING BH SOCIAL—VOLUNTEERS WANT-ED

LOVE CLEAN LONDON

PARKING

A RESIDENTS PLEA

CREST UPDATES

CHAMONIX UPDATES

MERTON WASTE

FIT PAYMENTS

WANDLE

JACK DIMMER

Happy New Year from RORP!

We took a break in January from the newsletter but con-tinued working be-hind the scenes on your behalf.

We are pleased to say that thanks to the campaigning by RORP all houses have now been is-sued with general waste bins. Hopeful-ly this will reduce the food available to fox-es and other vermin. We have received reports from resi-dents that rats are a problem on the es-tate, so it is vital that all residents work together to reduce

rubbish on the es-tate to help manage the problem. Merton Council offers a Pest Control Service, we have posted details on the Rowan Park Facebook Page, al-ternatively see www.merton.gov.uk/pestcontrol or con-tact them at pestcon-trol@merton.gov.uk 020 8545 3022

Welcome to the resi-dents who have re-cently moved in, it is great to see the site almost fully occu-pied. Please see the back page for details on how to become a member of the RORP residents as-

sociation, all resi-dents are welcome to join.

As many of you will be aware a doctors surgery and phar-macy were in the original site plans and we have had it confirmed that build-ing works should start this year and be complete by mid 2015. The Rowans Surgery will then re-locate to Rowan Park. For more de-tails see our article on page 2.

RORP ASSOCIATION UPDATE

February 2014

ELECTIONS 24th to 28th March If you haven't registered your details with RORP hurry up and do so to en-able you to vote for the elected officers of RORP. For details on how to reg-ister please see the back page. Elections will take place during the above week, when residents will be able to email their nomi-

nations to RORP. The residents who have put themselves forward are:

OLIVER WRIGHT for CHAIR

DAVID HAN for TREASURER

ROWAN GORTER-WRIGHT for SECRETARY An email confirming voting arrangements will be emailed to all registered residents. Oliver & Rowan are related by marriage, however if other candidates would like to come forward we will put you forward for the election. If no rea-sonable objections are made & no other candidate are identified, the above candidates will be confirmed in post for the year 1/4/13 to 31/3/15 following residents votes.

NEWSLETTER

RESIDENTS OF ROWAN PARK RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

are also keen to hear from anyone or businesses willing to sponsor the event. If you are interested or to find out more, email RORP as soon as possible with de-tails of how you would like to contribute. Details of the event will be published in future editions of the newsletter and on the

Facebook page, so keep up to date with our progress. We are looking at Sunday 25th May (bank holiday weekend), so keep it free. The date is to be confirmed.

We are looking for volun-teers to help organise the next residents social, and others to donate equipment (bbq’s, chairs, gazebos, ta-bles, games, inflatables), to make food, face painting and help out on the day. Think street party / party in the park, with the aim to bring residents together. We

“I wanted to flag a concerning trend in fly-tipping on the Rowan Park premises. Where fly-tipping may have become less near the entrance of Rowan Park, I have noticed bags of rubbish near the bin store of the Old School Build-ing since the signs have gone up (where I live). It is obviously hard to determine who puts it there, but, I did a quick survey within the building and the residents I spoke to noticed the bags as well and told me they are not putting bags outside the bin store. In other words, this must be done by someone living in the Rowan Park development or Rowan Road who discovered the prox-imity of this bin store and decid-ed to put his/her bag there for the residents of the Old School

Building to take care of it. Not many solutions for this prob-lem other than repeating the message that fly-tipping is NOT ALLOWED. I honestly believe this is an attitude problem. Fly-tipping is preferably done in the dark when no-one can see you. I have seen people running from their homes to the entrance with full rubbish bags from my balco-ny.” A School Building Resident. RORP support this plea and would ask all residents NOT to fly-tip. Fly-tipping is a CRIME, looks messy and attracts vermin. If you witness someone fly-tipping, please note down as many details as possible, such

as: The date & time The location Details of the items dis-

posed of Identification of the person

& their address if known Take a photo where possi-

ble You should sign and date your written record, then report it to Merton Council using the online form on their website (www.merton.gov.uk) If it is an environmental health issue it can also be reported to the fly-tipping action line on 0208 545 3025 See our article on LOVE CLEAN LONDON

They are currently register-ing patients who live in the catchment area which in-cludes Residents of Rowan Park.

For details on the services provided by the surgery and how to register please visit:

The Rowans Surgery will be moving to Rowan Park in the future. According to their website The Rowans Sur-gery endeavours to provide high quality, effective prima-ry health care to all our pa-tients in a modern, friendly environment.

www.rowanssurgery.co.uk

The Rowans Surgery 1, Windermere Road, Streatham, London SW16 5HF

020 8764 0407

SPRING BH SOCIAL — VOLUNTEERS WANTED

NO FLY-TIPPING — A RESIDENTS PLEA

THE ROWANS SURGERY

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To welcome in Spring and to build on the success of the first RORP social, we would like to invite all residents (18+) to Friday night drinks at The Railway Public House, Greyhound Lane, London SW16 5SD (near Streatham Common Train Station), from 7:30 pm on Friday 21st

March 2014.

We hope to see as many people there as possible. It will be a great opportunity to meet neigh-bours and build on our great community atmosphere. Please email the association or confirm your attendance via the Facebook page, to enable us to give the pub an indication of numbers.

We look forward to seeing you!

WHAT IS LOVE CLEAN LONDON: Love Clean London is a ‘call to arms’ for Londoners to keep London clean. Love Clean London makes it easier for Londoners to report environmental crimes, receive feedback from London boroughs on progress and save London boroughs money. HOW IT WORKS: You send in your report using the free mobile apps, a text or picture message, or using the web site. The Local Authority will deal with your report and you can be kept informed of progress using the website, or they will send you a message when it's complete. HOW TO MAKE A REPORT: On the website: www.lovecleanlondon.org/Reports/Home Text / MMS: Just send a Text or Picture Message to 07725202020 with LCS-LCL in the subject field or the first part of the message. Or you can download our free Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, or Blackberry app from the app store or marketplace on your phone.

PARKING

START OF SPRING SOCIAL— FRIDAY 21st

How you can keep London & Merton Rubbish FREE

dents meeting & at the meet-ing with Chamonix, not to park on the pavements. Please ensure cars are park-ing in a designated bay, in-cluding the non-allocated spaces marked ‘V’ on a first come first service basis. Failure to do so may see Chamonix introducing park-ing fines.

Any money generated through fines will not be rein-vested into Rowan Park. Lets work together to avoid this!

We have been asked by res-idents who have young chil-dren to remind residents to park in designated parking bays only. Parking on non designated parking bays re-sults in pavements being blocked forcing those with pushchairs and wheelchairs to use the road to get past. It was agreed at the 1st resi-

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look at the Merton Website: http://www.merton.gov.uk/environment/recyclingwastemanagement.htm

Where you can order recycling or food waste bins, organise a bulky waste collection and among oth-er things organ-ise a garden waste collection service. There is also infor-mation on the

local dump and how to report a missed collection.

Thanks for everyone’s commit-ment in keeping Rowan Park rub-bish free, it is however worth not-

ing that any waste should only be left outside the front of your property on bin collection day as per the lease agreement.

RORP are pleased that they were able to hold Crest to their plans and provide wheelie bins to all residents. The estate is now no-ticeably cleaner before and after bin collection day.

There have been a few teething issues with rubbish not being col-lected from the park facing proper-ties, but together we can put a workable solution into place.

Please take a moment to have a

Recently the Managing Director of Crest Nicholson South, Mr Iain McPherson has confirmed to RORP that there is a site wide defect with the ply board cladding which is going to be addressed and expects works to begin before the summer,

He also confirmed remedial works to the block pav-ing, drainage channels and rum-ble strips are still to be completed.

Further to this, and previously high-lighted we are chasing up with CN the issues with external wall streaks down the

render, to now include any struc-tural cracking. A resident has also recently highlighted the dead trees/shrubs which need replacing among other things.

Ongoing investigations include:

The security gates which currently do not meet the

Secured by Design specification.

The missing trel-lis work to fences as laid out in the fencing strategy and also high-lighted in the secure design recommenda-tions.

Please do let us know

of any communal area snagging/defects which we can follow up.

It has also been confirmed that all the relevant documentation re-quired to apply for the FiT pay-ments, from the energy produced by the solar panels, is due to be distributed by Richard Morrissey, the Technical Director, to all resi-dents who are yet to receive it.

There is change in the Customer Service Department and a new Customer Service Executive who manages Nicole Huguenin-Boyd has been appointed, Mr Phil Mo-nahan who is contactable on email via:

phil.monahan@crestnicholso

n.com

The Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for solar panels (4kW or less) fitted to existing homes is 15.44p per kWh (unit of electricity). And, if your panels qualify, you could get FiT payments for the

next 20 years. The Department of Energy and Climate Change thinks

EON WEBSITE STATES “As well as generating your own electricity, de-vices like solar panels could help you make extra energy too, which can be 'fed' into the na-tional grid, for other peo-ple to use. Registered energy suppliers like us will pay you for the energy you 'feed' in.

solar panels are a good investment and believe the financial return is around 6%.”

Apply online at the EON website:

https://www.eonenergy.com/for-your-home/products-and-services/Feed-in-Tariffs

MERTON WASTE SERVICES

CREST NICHOLSON UPDATES

Are your Solar Panels registered to receive FiT payments?

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“Thanks for everyone’s

commitment in keeping

Rowan Park rubbish free”

Chamonix Estates have a new Account Manager for Rowan Park, Regan Fielder who is due to be sending out her details to all residents shortly.

It has been confirmed that the lantern window cleaning has been outsourced to a company called Town and Coun-try Cleaners. They have been cleaning the lanterns during the past week, however it is worth noting that they have actually only cleaned the front eleva-tions and the sides where appli-cable. Where there is no ac-

cess to the rear of the lanterns no cleaning has been done.

Another development is that Chamonix have provisionally introduced the opportunity for residents to opt out of the front garden maintenance, if this was part of your service charge.

This is on the basis that the specification of the front garden should not be changed as this

will be in breach of planning and Chamonix may request this to be put back to the original specification or carry out the work and re-charge this direct-ly.

Also that if the garden is left ‘un-maintained’ and begins to look

unsightly, Chamonix Es-tates will carry out a one off blitz which will be re-charged.

Chamonix are legally obliged to ensure the gar-dens are kept to an ac-

ceptable standard in accord-ance with the requirement of the lease agreement.

Items on the agenda included parking, rubbish and general build issues. Rowan Park is a unique site that Wandle operates on due to

the private roads and lease conditions, as well as the size of the estate.

Residents of Rowan Park have met with Mr Andy Shelley, the Neighbourhood Improvement Of-fice and Ms. Emi-ly Rogers, the Customer Relationship Office from Wandle Housing Associa-tion.

A good relationship has been formed and we look forward to working with Wandle in the fu-ture, as well as welcoming their tenants as members of the Resi-dents Association. (see back page for details on how to regis-ter)

JACK DIMMER ENTRANCE TO SHUT BUT 2 NEW

PEDESTRIAN / CYCLE ENTRANCES OPEN

CHAMONIX ESTATES UPDATES

WANDLE HOUSING ASSOCIATION

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As the front of the estate is nearing completion please be aware that the Jack Dimmer entrance will shortly be closed to traffic.

However we have two new entranc-es opening into Hoylake Gardens and Kingsmead Avenue. With the summer fast approaching why not use this as a perfect opportunity to get the bike out the shed!

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Sieve the flour into a large baking

bowl, add the salt. Make a well in the centre of the flour and add the eggs. Beat well until smooth and lump free.

Add half the milk and the 2 tsp of

butter, beat well. Add the remain-ing milk and stir.

Leave the batter to rest for 15

minutes.

Lightly grease a pancake pan or

frying pan with a little melted but-ter. Heat until very hot and add a ladleful of batter so it evenly and

thinly coats the base of the pan. Cook until set and lightly golden.

Using a spatula or if you are

really brave try tossing the pan-cake in the air, and cook on the other side for approx 30 sec-onds.

To Serve:

Pancakes are traditionally eaten sprin-kled with sugar and a squeeze of lem-on. However, serve as you like with whatever takes your fancy.

Pancake Day is the day for traditionally eating pancakes. It is the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent-the word 'Shrove' stems from old English word 'shrive', meaning 'confess all sins'. Pancakes were a way to use up any stocks of milk, butter and eggs which were for-bidden during the abstinence of Lent.

Ingredients:

225g / 8 oz plain flour

Pinch salt

2 large, fresh eggs

600ml / 2½ cups milk 2 tsp melted butter To make:

We would remind residents to make sure everything is safely locked away and locked up when you leave your home and at night time. The nights are still long so it's worth investing in a couple of timers for lamps/Radio and so on which give the impression that someone is at home. Personal items from iPods to bicycles can be registered on immobilise.com. Registra-tion helps us identify your property if it is recovered. Visit immobilise.com for more information as well as the Met Police website for

further crime prevention ad- vice. For a free UV Property Mark-ing Kit for marking your valu-ables please contact the Longthornton SNT with your name and address. Who will arrange to have one deliv-ered & can complete a free home security survey at the same time. When out and about especially in the eve-nings remember to stay safe, Keep bags under your coats if possible and cover any jewellery such as necklaces. Keep phones, iPods, etc out of sight in your pockets or bags and be

aware of your surroundings. Try to walk in well lit areas and main streets and make sure someone knows where you are going and for how long. Longthornton SNT Mitcham Police Station Mitcham CR4 4LA Phone: 0208 721 2742 Email: Longthornton.snt@met.police.uk In case of emergency always call 999 Non-emergency call 101

PANCAKE DAY— 4th March (Shrove Tuesday)

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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH ADVICE

PLUMBINGWERX

PLUMBING & HEATING

Ivo Ramos

Phone: 07523 289248

E-mail: plumbingwerx@hotmail.com

Plumbing & heating local engineer. Re-active repairs & installations

24/7. Also proud member of Checkatrade.

If you can recommend someone, or you are a Cleaner or Electrician with appropriate qualifications / certificates, then we want to hear from you.

We have been contacted by residents who want the ser-vices of a:

Cleaner

Electrician

Email RORP and we will hap-pily pass on the details:

residentso-frowanpark@gmail.com

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ADVERTISE IN THE NEWSLETTER

Do you have a small busi-ness that is able to serve the residents of Rowan Park?

Are you wanting to start / join a club?

Perhaps you are a fitness instructor and are looking for new clients?

If the answer is YES then we want to hear from you!

We invite you to advertise in the newsletter for a small fee, to help generate funds for the association and cover any publication costs (small £5, large £15, 1/2 page £30, full page £60).

Email the association for further information.

Residents wanting to adver-tise voluntary / social groups can do so for free. Adverts are subject to ap-proval, must be legal and above board. The number of adverts are limited per edition.

RORP RUNNING CLUB: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME

Whether to assist with a target of a 5K, 10K, half Marathon or Marathon, RORP RC aims to be source of support and friendship with a primary aim of keeping fit and staying healthy in a relaxed

group. Meet every Saturday morning at 9am in the car park at the front of the estate.

To run for an hour; taking in either Tooting Bec, Streatham Common or Mitcham Common; and periodically take part in Brockwell Park, Park Run (5K) which is open to anyone to register for and takes place every week.

Contact / Follow us:

Residents of Rowan Park

residentsofrowanpark@gmail.com

@Rowan_Park

NEXT MEETING: Elections will be via email, so if you want the right to vote, please register your email address TODAY! Once there is a committee elected, the date/venue of the next meeting will be decided and circulated IDEAS WANTED: We are looking for residents ideas on the possible use of the community hall on Rowan Park. Any feedback would be welcome, please email us. CONTRIBUTE: If you have a topic or story you would like to share with other residents then we would love to hear from you. Max-imum word count of 225, the deadline for the next publica-tion article deadline is 10/03/14. USEFUL LINKS: NEW CHAMONIX: RFielder@chamonixgroup.com NEW CREST: phil.monahan@crestnicholson.com Merton Council: www.merton.gov.uk Safer Neighbourhood’s Team: Longthornton.snt@met.police.uk Report Fly-Tipping: 0208 545 3025 Anti-Social Behaviour: 0208 274 4907 Noise Pollution and Statutory Nuisance: 0208 545 3025 or out of hours 0208 543 9750

RESIDENTS OF ROWAN PARK

RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

MAKING ROWAN PARK A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST / MEMBERSHIP

If you are yet to express an interest in the association and want to have the right to vote at the up coming election for officers, then email the details below to the association TODAY!

TITLE

FORENAME(S):

SURNAME:

EMAIL ADDRESS:

TELEPHONE / MOBILE NUMBER:

ADDRESS:

PLOT NUMBER:

Please provide the details of all residents living at the address who are 18 or over.

By sending us your details you confirm

that you support the creation of the Resi-

dents of Rowan Park Residents Associa-

tion, and would like to be kept up to date

with developments, invited to meetings

/events & placed on our mailing list.

Make a difference & be a part of ensuring this a great community!