Denny Garden Blog

Annual Summer Party: Sunday 17th July 2011

dennygarden — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:32:49 +0000

The Denny Garden summer party will take place on Sunday 17^th July from 3.00pm to 7.00pm in the garden. We hope that you can join us. Please bring whatever you would like to eat, drink, and share. All Denny Street and Denny Crescent residents are friends are welcome.

Thank you and hope to see you on Sunday 17th July.

The Directors, Denny Garden Ltd.

Kennington ArtsLav project

dennygarden — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:01:40 +0000

You may have heard talk of the ArtsLav project, intended to make use of the disused subterranean Victorian public toilets at Kennington Cross. The project itself has been around as a concept for some years. Unfortunately, its leading proponent, and former Chairperson of the Friends of Kennington Cross, Celia Stothard, passed away in December after a lengthy illness.

The current Chairperson of Friends of Kennington Cross reports that the project is however moving forward. There is now an agreed vendor to replace the paving light seals to make the lavs water tight. After that they will install fixtures, plumbing and electricals, and then they will make final arrangements to offer the space to Tomorrow’s People. You will be aware that Tomorrow’s People is the charitable enterprise that operates the flower stall outside St. Anselm’s church. It is the plan to allow Tomorrow’s People to use the ArtsLav space to store their supplies as well as to set up the stall above ground.

Should you wish to follow the progress of all of this, there is an ArtsLav Facebook page (http://on.fb.me/artslav). If you are on Facebook you can “Like” the page and be fed updates, but you do not need to be a member of Facebook to access the page. It is intended that this Facebook page will allow you to watch the ongoing progress for ArtsLav as well as engage in discussions about how you would like to see the project develop.

Minutes of the March 2011 AGM

dennygarden — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:32:36 +0000

All Denny Garden shareholders (owners of the houses from 5-15 Denny Street and 1-16 Denny Crescent) should now have received a copy of the minutes of our recent AGM through their door. Non-resident landlord owners, your copies were posted on 22nd March to the most recent address held for you.

As at the time of posting, five (of twenty-seven) shareholders still need to pay their £125 annual service charge. Please do so immediately.

Shareholders should note that the AGM minutes delivered to you are accompanied by a request to complete a Standing Order mandate in respect of future service charge payments, in order to cut down on having to chase payments and to avoid the complications of landlords who move house. Please follow the instructions – and return your forms as requested - as quickly as possible.

Many thanks,

The Directors, Denny Garden Ltd.

AGM 2011

dennygarden — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:12:36 +0000

You will also have received an invoice for £125 for the annual maintenance charge for the garden, a cheque for which you are requested to pop through the door of 6 Denny Street or bring to the meeting.

Please attend the meeting if you can. Not only is it a chance to discuss the garden, it will also provide the opportunity to discuss any other neighbourhood issues, meet your neighbours and get involved. The more the merrier and refreshments will be served after the formal part of the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Summer Party 2010 – Sunday 4th July from 4pm

dennygarden — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:43:35 +0000

Residents of Denny Street and Denny Crescent, and their friends, are invited to attend this year’s summer party in the garden. This will take place from 4pm until 7pm on Sunday 4th July. It is a good chance to meet your neighbours and we are hoping our new gardener will also be in attendance.

If you can, please bring a little food or drink to share around. To try to ensure we don’t all bring the same things, you might like to pop a note through the door at 6 Denny Street to let us know what you plan to bring. If we find there is a lot of overlap we’ll get back to you.

We have been lucky with the weather the past couple of year’s so here’s hoping for three in a row!

Annual General Meeting: Wednesday 10th March 2010 at 8.00pm

dennygarden — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:49:08 +0000

Members of Denny Garden Ltd. (i.e. owners of the houses at 5-15 Denny Street and each house around Denny Cresent) should have received through their doors notice of the AGM to take place at 6 Denny Street on Wednesday 10th March 2010 at 8.00pm. You will also have received an invoice for £125 for the annual maintenance charge for the garden, a cheque for which you are requested to pop through the door of 6 Denny Street or bring to the meeting.

Please attend the meeting if you can. Not only is it a chance to discuss the garden, it will also provide the opportunity to discuss any other neighbourhood issues and to meet your neighbours. The more the merrier and refreshments will be served after the formal part of the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Reminder – summer party is Saturday 15th August 2.30pm

dennygarden — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:48:32 +0000

A quick reminder that we are having the annual summer party in the communal garden this Saturday, 15^th August, from 2.30pm. All residents and friends are invited. Please bring some drink and food to share. Hope to see you there.

Summer Party in Denny Garden – Saturday 15th August

dennygarden — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:22:41 +0000

Denny Garden Ltd. will be having our second annual summer get together on Saturday, 15 August in the garden itself.

We’ll be kicking off at 2:30. If you’re interested in helping out or would like to bring a particular dish, just make a note to David Tinney and pop it into the letterbox at number 6 Denny Street or post a comment below. We will try to coordinate if too many people want to bring the same thing.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Success (we think) with the York flagstones

dennygarden — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:08 +0000

Cast your mind back to August last year and this Denny Garden blog post about the work being done at the time to the streetlights and our observation that our attractive York flagstones were being dug up. At the time we were given reassurances that any stones removed would be “replaced with a like-for-like surface material”. As many of you have observed, the concrete or tarmac that was in fact used is not at all an equivalent.

Initial calls to the contractor led to partial reasssurances about some of these being “temporary” fixes, however it has proved necessary to bring in the Conservation and Urban Design Team of Lambeth Council to force any actual action some 10 months later. We have the tenacity of Scott at number 15 (Street) to thank for this. He has done the rounds of the various teams at Lambeth, and has been persistent in applying pressure to ensure that the council makes the effort needed on our behalf to negotiate through the web of contractors and sub-contractors responsible for this.

The council has now visited the Street and Crescent with the relevant contractor. The Conservation Team was of the opinion that the removed flagstones have not been replaced like-for-like. The contractors have therefroe agreed to replace all of the stones affected by the lighting work to York stone. They do not have a start date as yet, but we are assure that it will be done.

Local tradespeople

dennygarden — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:31:04 +0000

At the AGM we discussed the sharing of recommendations of local tradespeople and, in the circulated minutes, we asked for contributions of recommendations that we could compile and share. Unfortunately, not many of these were forthcoming. Perhaps we are all in need of these recommendations more than we thought! However the Kennington Association has come to the rescue with its own list of exactly this: local tradespeople, as recommended by its members.

You can access this very useful resource here.

The way this is laid out, you will have to scroll through a few pages (“Older Posts”) to find what you are looking for; nonetheless it is a useful resource and no doubt more comprehensive than we would ever have managed on our own.