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Residents Committee
The committee will co-ordinate your communications,and be the conduit to take your ideas and complaints to the relevant people and try to ensure you get a fair and reasonable answer.
We will not enter into discussion or dispute regarding individual rent or council tax and other legal issues concerning your tenancy or lease.
The committee is structured to attain a balance between owners both resident and non resident, as well as their tenants.
Your Waterfront Community
Orwell Quay Owners & Residents has been created to give you all a voice in shaping
the environment we all live.
Please suggest additional amenities you would like to see around our community to maintain and improve standards now and in the future. What do we need to do to meet the challenges in the coming years, ev charging points, energy saving ideas. It’s your forum.
ORSA are the consultants chosen by our Project Team .
Quote of the Decade
“These apartments are occupied by tenants/owners and care must be taken by the contractor not to cause disruption in any form”
From ORSA Consulting Planning Document submission to IBC regarding the Remediation
Quay News
Do you trust your Residential Agent to be responsible for their own Governance?
Do you trust your Residential Agent to be responsible for their own Governance?
Do you trust your Residential Agent to be responsible for their own Governance?
We have all had mixed experiences with Residential Agents, be they Estate,Letting or Managing. The power's that be must also have shared these experiences, as in October 2018 they asked Lord Best to investigate all aspects of the Residential Agency industry , including Estate,Letting and Managing agents.
Lord Best consulted with all parts of the Residential Agency industry,and in 2019 made public his comprehensive report with recommendations on governance and legislation to enforce it.
Since then it has been buried by the “ Sir Humfreys” of Whitehall, and now as life returns to what we now accept as normal It’s needs to be dusted off and at least debated in Parliament.
To that end a petition has been lodged on the govenment website , we now just need as many signatures as possible to raise the profile and get it into the public domain.
You can read the report at
You can sign the petition at
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/61749
If Possible can you ask as many of your friends,colleagues and family members to sign as everyone has a story about a letting,estate or managing agent.
“Hello Darkness My Old Friend”
Do you trust your Residential Agent to be responsible for their own Governance?
Do you trust your Residential Agent to be responsible for their own Governance?
Well a week in which l have had “No Reply” l thought maybe EWS may have written so l said “ Hey Mister Postman look and see – if there’s a letter in your bag for me” but he just shook his head and said “Shame Shame Shame” but they said they would reply “Yesterday – now l need a place to hide away”.
Later I thought we need some “ Help” maybe we should all “ Come together” and a voice was heard to say we need a more direct approach, l said you are right but please put down “ Maxwells Silver Hammer “. Violence never solved anything.
If you all want to “Please Please Me” then we should all write to Micheal Gove saying we are fed up with “The Answer Blowing in the Wind” we need him to give us a “Bridge over Troubled Waters”. We are tired of being told to “Go Tell it to the Mountain” and he and his Ministry should tell EWS to “ Keep the Customer Satisfied” we no longer will accept “The Sounds of Silence”.
What ever the outcome of our remediation EWS should remember “ l Will Survive” and we all have long memories and would like to go back to “The Way we Were” and not have to stress about telling people “It My Neighborhood ” and we can just sit and “ Don’t Think Twice it’s All Right”, and perhaps ponder on everything being just a “Circle of Life”
‘Coming Back to Life” If only we could “Turn Back Time” could they have handled things a little bit better – l think so “You go your way l’ll go mine”
Lastly to you all “You’ve got a Friend” write to
The Right Hon Micheal Gove MP
Department for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4 DF
Kind regards from
“ This Boy”
Waterfront Blog
We are delighted that our own David Pennington has resumed his witty and informative waterfront blog. Learn about day to day life on our waterfront in words and images.
To join just view and post on www.waterfrontblog.co.uk
Social Events
“Meet Your Neighbours”
The next “ Meet Your Neighbours” will be a members Summer Garden Party
Thursday 7th July 7.30 - 10.00 pm Penthouse 905 51 Patteson Road.
Tell us if you agree or disagree
Cladding Remediation Work Orwell Quay.
Persimmon PLC have confirmed they are entering into a contract with the Government to fund completely the remediation works for all buildings at Orwell Quay,and to refund any funds already paid to the Project Team in advance for surveys planning etc.
We have this week been in direct negotiations with them to achieve two of our overarching aims, the type of wrap used and adopting the block by block methodology.
We think we may have won the argument on the first, but Persimmon are saying they do not wish to further delay work starting by changing the planned total 10-12 Month wrap.
We have said we would survey our members to ask if that we could move to block by block thus vastly reducing the time any particular block was wrapped, would we prepared to accept a delay of approx 8-12 weeks so that a new methodology could be approved.
Once again a simple yes or no email response would be sufficient.
Please take the time to answer as we at last have some kind of direct input .
