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Estate Charges
The bane of many residents’ lives in Thamesmead has not reared its ugly head as soon as in recent years: The Thamesmead Estate charges bills have not yet gone out. In an interesting move, despite giving me an indication that … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, regeneration, thamesmead people
Tagged community, estate charges, gallions, peabody, regeneration, survey, thamesmead
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Thamesmead Garden City?
An interesting blog post from Peabody over here: http://www.peabody.org.uk/news-views/chief-executives-blog/londons-garden-suburb-thamesmead As many know, Gallions has been taken over, merged, subsumed, or supplemented by Peabody recently, in the wake of accusations over bad internal policy and overblown staff payoffs. It’s quite a … Continue reading
Community Voice Meeting
I went along to the Thamesmead Community Voice meeting last night, at The Link. The last time I went to a meeting there the Thamesmead Residents Group were protesting and filled the hall to the point where people were standing. … Continue reading
Thamesmead is not being demolished
Thamesmead is not being demolished! I’d like that to be the take-away point to this post. I have seen so many comments to the effect that the estate is being torn down, and it’s not true. I’ve seen somebody on … Continue reading
Parks and Outdoor Spaces Questionnaire
The following is a questionnaire that Gallions and Peabody are trying to gather answers to. Since I don’t see many of the Thamesmead locals in a face to face context, it made sense for me to put it here and … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, local initiatives, regeneration
Tagged environment, gallions, questionnaire, regeneration, southmere lake
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Thamesmead South Regeneration Neighbourhood Group
This picture shows the results of an icebreaker from the Thamesmead South Regeneration Neighbourhood Group (hereafter referred to as the Neighbourhood Group to save typing!). The quality isn’t fantastic, but it does the trick. We were each asked to stand … Continue reading
South Thamesmead Regeneration Neighbourhood Group
I’m just back from the church where the Gallions meeting with local residents and stakeholders took place. I had a good time meeting a lot of locals and I’ve got quite a few notes to type up, but that will … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, south thamesmead neighbourhood group
Tagged gallions, meetings, regeneration
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South Thamesmead Neighbourhood Group
Something interesting happened to me yesterday. I was invited to join the South Thamesmead Neighbourhood Group, an invitation that I have happily accepted. The group is being set up by Gallions and according to Lesley Edwards who invited me: The … Continue reading
Thamesmead Residents
I was alerted to a local residents group recently when I had a look at Twitter. Shortly afterwards I received a letter through my door inviting me to come and join a protest. Thamesmead is interesting in that while we … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, events, oddities
Tagged bexley council, gallions, houses, protests, service charges, the link
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