NYYoung

This cat has now returned :)

Thank you. And for support. We are going to need all the help we can get from the community.

Dear all, thank you for messages of support. It is very serious. Here is the letter i wrote to harrier harman last friday.

Dear Ms Harman

I am writing on behalf of 23 of your constituents and my fellow residents at 46 Solomon's Passage, SE15 3DN.

Further to my letter of 24th March, and your response on 12th April, circumstances at Solomon's Passage have taken a dramatic change for the worse. After six years of consistently poor service, Wandle Housing Association is now ?re-homing? leaseholders and tenants from 85 homes to enable a six-year building project to reconstruct, demolish and re-build blocks we have discovered were neither safe - nor fit for purpose - when we bought them on a shared ownership scheme. The entire street is to be rebuilt. We have been advised by solicitors that this is an unprecedented move and casts serious doubt on Wandle?s ability to provide service and duty of care, to manage its estate and the public?s money.

The options we have been given by Wandle for ?re-housing? are derisory and inadequate to secure equivalent alternatives. We stand to lose the investments we have worked so hard for, and have been priced out of our area, a community where our children go to schools, where we work for local employers. Wandle is taking no account of money we have poured into our homes to improve them, roots we have put down here, and the community we have built.

These blocks have not ever been adequately fire-proofed. We have had six years of chronic problems with gas, electrics, water drainage and ventilation. We have not been able to safely use the underground car parking facility we paid for. During our time here complaints about service and maintenance have been ignored. The buildings have not been adequately cleaned and we paid a monthly service charge. Now we learn that the water drainage system is defunct. This has caused six years of flooding and rotted the entire timber frame. The roof needs replacing, the exterior cladding has warped, the gutters are leaking, and the building has never been properly insulated.

After six years of poor service, inadequate maintenance, ineffective communication and constant chronic problems with our building, we are now facing disruption on a much more serious and life-changing scale.

As you can imagine this has caused considerable stress, anxiety and sleepless nights for all those currently living here and we are pursuing legal action as a group.

Our situation is very serious. As our local parliamentary representative, we are asking for your direct support and intervention. We need further information from Southwark Council on both our rights and what they have agreed with Wandle. I have cc-d our Housing Ombudsman Councillor, Gavin Edwards, in the hope that you can work together on this. Southwark Council Building Control signed off the buildings, which were built by Green Acre Homes (who went into administration in August 2011) and we are interested to know what their response is to this issue.

We need your support to pressure Wandle to provide adequate compensation so that we can find new homes equivalent to those we currently have in the local area. I am happy to act as a spokesperson for the residents and would like to arrange a meeting with you both at your earliest convenience to understand how you may be able to help.

Lovely Portuguese restaurant tucked away behind two olive trees on Nunhead Green. The owners could not have been nicer to me and my children this evening. Cooked my son a special meal. Wonderful grilled prawns and sea bass. Beautiful food and wine. Nothing too difficult. Best meal out in a long time. Will be going again soon.

apols for raising a subject am sure has been raised before, but does anyone know why we have that giant tea drinking fly at the top of barry rd and how long it will be there for. it is starting to do my head in. Thanks. N