William Wiberforce Trust

A big thank you to The William Wilberforce Trust , who have donated and will deliver some garden furniture for our sunken garden. Brilliant

London Housing Design Guide-Possible Redevelopment Room Sizes

These are the recommended room sizes for new builds for London

1 Bed - 2 person 50 sqm
2 bed 3 persons 61 sqm
2 bed 4 persons 70 sqm.

Minimum Width in the main sitting area
2 person 23 Sqm
3 person 25 sqm
4 person 27 sqm
5 person 29 sqm

Minimum Area for a :
Single Bedroom : 8 sqm
Double Bedroom 12sqm

Or you can look at the London Housing Design Guide.

http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Interim%20London%20Housing%20Design%20Guide.pdf

I would expect the redevelopment drawings are based on these sizes, but as we have not being shown detailed drawings , we can only make an assumption.

Ideas for the Sunken Garden

Ideas from Residents and Committee for the Sunken Garden

Night Lighting - movement sensitive lights.

Benches

Raised beds - for vegetables. accessible to wheelchair users

Small childrens growing section.

Some Grass.

Bird Boxes, Bird Tables , Bird Baths

Water Feature.

Trees and plant need pruning. Beds cleaned.

Fruit trees

More Colour - roses, fuscia, dahlia,peonies

Handrails on steps

Nature Board, tree and plant labelling - education

shed-

Bust of William Sutton - Estate Information board.

Potholes - need to be fixed.

Benches painted in pastel colours. also some railing.

Trellis on interior and exterior fencing.

Tree Decoration - Yearly competiton

Each block to have a growing area.

Tools - storage- forks - spades etc

Water Butts - access to a tap- rainwater harvesting

Security

Compost heap

Bins.

Working table

Bee hive

Hanging baskets

Can the RHS give us advice on what plants , fruit , trees shrubs to plant. The area doesnt gey a lot of light.

Sandbox..

Suggested Uses.

Christmas Carols - Art exhibiton - Growing ,Planting - childrens and mum gardening lessons, summer tea parties.

Additonall Bodies to be approached .

Police, RSPB, Beekeepers

Estate Signs

A number of residents have commented on the positioning of signs on the estate. Natalie Down from Affinity Sutton will be walking around the estate with Jean Keal our Treasurer to try and resolve these issues

Gardening Project

We met with Groundworkers- the Environmental Charity in The Sunken Garden. The will be Re -building Benches, building raised beds,and so forth. We have already had two Bird boxes donated by Larry Bruce- Thanks Larry. Chris McTavish has purchased mini bee hives for the tree. We have asked the London Orchard Projetc for some fruit trees. The project is taking pace- keep watching

Get Well Soon

We heard at The Rap that Jamie Roumph has Broken his leg. Get well soon from all at Cats and Residents on the Sutton Estate Chelsea

Resident Area Panel ( RAP)

There is a Resident Area Panel Meeting in in The Communal Lounge in Kingsmill and Jenningsbury House. Start 6.30 pm

Sunken Garden - Volunteers View

Shame we didn't start a few months earlier... have seen a few offers in the evening standard for bulbs but thought maybe too late to plant them by the time we got going so did not buy any.

Also about tables, in Canada we used to pick up the wooden cable holders left by cable companies etc. They have mnay different sizes.  I am sure some companies here might give us a few. They make good picnic tables and already have a hole in the centre if you wanted to put a cover just need a small adjustment.

Also bought a box at the design festival with 3 lone bee houses... lone bees to not produce honey but they pollenate plants. You just attach them to side of a building or a tree. They were a bit expensive but could make others just out of wood and also some bird houses.

I have also purchased ( made a donation) a bee saving kit form 'Friends of the Earth. Thye have a bee saving campaign on now ... they send you wildfllower seeds that attract bees, a bee guide , bee id and a garden planter. We just need to get the seeds in by the end of October.

This years Panto- Cinderella

This years Panto is at The Beck Theatre on Saturday the 4th of January 2014. Is a Matinee performance . Tickets £10 Adult £5 for Kids - includes Coach to and from The Venue

Calling All Sunken Garderners

Next Monday - 21st October- http://www.groundwork.org.uk/  are coming to the estate at 4 pm to give us some advice and help on what we need to do with the Sunken Garden, if all Volunteers can attend that would be great.

Emma Dent Coads Blog

http://emmadentcoad.blogspot.co.uk/

This is quite an intersting Blog for residents

Residents Redevelopment Meeting - Update

Cats will be inviting all Sutton Estate Residents to a meeting at St Lukes'  Church Hall on Wednesday the 20th of November from  7 -9PM . This is your opportunity to discuss the forthcoming redevelopment and let the Committee know what you think. As we have said before Affinity Sutton have informed the Committee that they intend to submit a planning application in May to knock down the majority of the Estate - not Leverstock and Maylands, and replace it with a new build, consisting of private and Social Housing homes.

AGM - NOMINATION AND VOTING

The Cats AGM will take place in The Sheltered Housing Area on Thursday 14th of November at 7pm.
Nomination form will be going out over the next few weeks , so if you would like to be considered for any of the postions, either as an officer or Committee Member, then now is your chance. If you have not applied to the Committee before you will need 2 people from the Estate to nominate you. Once we have these forms in - we will then send out Voting Forms. The Voting will take place , before the AGM itself so we can announce the result on the night of the AGM.

Sunken Garden

The Sunken Garden is being Jetwashed today and the tree pruners are coming tommorrow. Just to remind all residents that we are looking for Volunteers who wish to take part in being involved in our Community Garden, Once Affinity Sutton have done the majority of the Cleaning - its up to the residents to plant, maintain and care for the Garden. If you haven't already signed up please let us know. After years of neglect , we have a real opportunity to take ownership of this space for all .

Cats Christmas Newsletter

The Cats Christmas Newsletter is now accepting submissions from any residents on The Chelsea Estate who wish to Contribute - email,phone or postbox

Kensington and Chelsea Today

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Friends of Holland Park

FRIENDS OF HOLLAND PARK AUTUMN EVENT

METROPOLITAN POLICE HORSES

Highwaymen to Football Crowds

Talk by Inspector Danny Butler

7.00 pm Thursday 24 October, The Orangery, Holland Park

Tickets are £12 and s.a.e. including wine and Janice Miles’ delicious canapés from Rhoddy Wood, 21 Kenton Court, 356 Kensington High Street or contact on 020 7602 0304 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 020 7602 0304 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting orrhoddy.wood@virgin.net

The Mounted Police, formed in 1760, is the oldest part of the Metropolitan Police, but duties and training have changed enormously in 250 years.

Our speaker, Inspector Danny Butler of the Hammersmith Division, has experience in many aspects of what is involved in making sure these wonderful horses help to keep our borough safe. From training at Imber Court to deployment of the animals on active duty, Inspector Butler has plenty of tales to tell and will be very happy to answer your questions. He has also worked as part of the Notting Hill team, so knows Holland Park well and confirms that both horses and police love their rides through our park.

Estate Redevelopment - Planning

Lis Louis and Natalie Down from Affinity Sutton addressed the Committee and let us know that Affinity Sutton will be appling for Planning permission in May and would look to start the Development after that. There will be an informative evening held by Affinty Sutton. There will also be  a meeting held by Cats to Judge residents feeling about the Development.

Sunken Garden

Affinity Sutton have very kindly thrown themselves behind The Cats plans to re open the sunken garden and make it a useful area to all resident. They have put £1,000 towards the replanting of the area. Many thanks from all The Chelsea Sutton Estate Residents

Estate Redevelopment

Affinity Sutton are sending two representatives to address the Committee this evening we will report back in due course