EVTRA

Elm Village Tenants and Residents Association

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(Updated 24 October 2011)

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EVTRA Secretary:
Ed Lee
24 Bergholt Mews
Tel. 020-7387 8960
evtrasec@aol.com

This is the official website of EVTRA. We run no others, and accept no responsibility for any material published on other sites bearing our name.

Contributions are welcome and can be sent to maeve.oc@
blueyonder.co.uk.

The elm trees above (common elm and wych elm) are reproduced from Trees in Britain by S.R. Badmin (1946. Puffin Picture Book No. 31. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books). Permission sought.

Christmas carols in the Constitution, Monday 19 December

A date for your diary: details later.

Annual General Meeting of EVTRA, 12 July 2011

The minutes of this meeting, the report from the Chair and the Treasurer's report are now available on this site: see AGMminutes2011, AGMMinutes2011Chair and AGMTreasurer's Report 2011.

The Big Lunch, 5 June 2011

The rain held off for just long enough and the Big Lunch went on, very successfully indeed - with lots of thanks due to David and Harriet Powell and all their helpers for their hard work. Now the evidence: photos from Andreas, David and Harriet. Let's look forward to another such occasion . . .

AGM 2011

As announced in the May newsletter, the next Annual General Meeting of EVTRA will be held on Tuesday 12 July. This year the meeting will be in the Cellar Bar of the Constitution, easy to get to for all of us -- but take care going down the steps.

AGM 2010

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting of EVTRA, held on 15 July 2010, are available here: AGM minutes 2010. The report from the Chair and a report on the North canalside wall are also available.

Garden Society

The Garden Society now has its own web page: Garden Society

Message from the Garden Society about the Elm Village Green Spaces

Planning permission for the green spaces was applied for in September 2009 and has now been granted. Since then Places for People have obtained quotations for the works and selected a contractor who estimates that work on-site can commence at the beginning of February and finish about three months later. The works to be undertaken by the contractor are essentially all those approved by Camden and detailed on the submitted plans, with just a few omissions due to the need to reduce costs to fit the available budget. These omissions are mostly in the North Canal site. Places for People will be writing to all residents with more details in early January, so look out for the letter.

Also, another Garden Society meeting will be organised in the near future.

The documents available are as follows:

Firstly, the planning application itself: Planning_Application.pdf

Secondly, the report on the various consultations: Report_of_Consultations.pdf

Thirdly, the planning decision: Planning_Decision.pdf

The next six documents are all architects' plans for three areas of Elm Village:

1. The North Canal site is the gated area between the Constitution pub and Elm Village:
Drawing_Existing_NorthCanalSite.pdf and Drawing_Proposed_NorthCanalSite.pdf

2. The South Canal site is the gated area immediately adjacent to the canal but at the opposite end of Elm Village to the North Canal: Drawing_Existing_SouthCanalSite.pdf and Drawing_Proposed_SouthCanalSite.pdf.

3. The Large Triangle site is the triangular gated area bounded by Barker Drive, Bergholt Mews and Blakeney Close: Drawing_Existing_LargeTriangleSite.pdf and Drawing_Proposed_LargeTriangleSite.pdf.

A fourth section answers the question of what happens to the trees already growing in the areas where all this work will be undertaken. The happy answer is that they are to be protected while the works are in progress, or they will be transplanted: Tree_Protection_Statement.pdf and Drawing_TreeProtection.pdf.

Announcements from 2009:

EVTRA Newsletter

The October 2009 issue of the newsletter is available now (see Newsletters page). See also the autumn update from the Elm Village Community Garden Society.

Security warnings from the Secretary, April 2009

Recently Ed Lee circulated an email about security in the Village, as below, so take heed:

(1) Two known car break-ins took place overnight, one being on Saturday/Sunday night 4 to 5th April when a car was broken into in Bergholt Mews and a valuable musical instrument (an accordion), amongst other things, stolen. If you see what might be the instrument on sale, most likely in a pawnshop, please inform the Secretary who will put the owner in contact. A couple of weeks before this, a car was broken into in the Rossendale Way/Blakeney Close triangle.

(2) Evidence of attempts to break in to houses.

(3) Evidence of drug taking/dealing in the alleyway between Bergholt Mews and Rossendale Way (reported to the Safer Neighbourhoods team). Empty wallets and prescription medicine packs were also found in this alleyway.

Note: if you see any such activity, just contact the police - they advise you not to confront these people, who can be violent.

(4) Drug dealers (assumed) hanging around the junction of Bergholt Mews/Rossendale Way and Barker Drive/Rossendale Way near the Garden Centre, also regularly in the Barker Drive Park.

(5) Camley Street: no further news on incidents reported earlier, but the residents affected feel that their concern was not taken seriously. But if someone beating you with a heavy chain is not serious, what is?

(6) Some residents believe that there may be squatters in a flat in the Village. Again this could be linked to drugs. If you have any news on this please contact the Secretary (tel. 020 7387 8960, email evtrasec@aol.com).

AGM minutes 2009

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held in July 2009 are available online (AGM minutes 2009).

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