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Announcements – Updated 28th May 2020

Keep safe – Please stay at home as much as possible, limit contact and work from home if possible. When going out, stay alert, keep socially distant by staying 2 metres (6 feet) away from other people and only meet one other person (up to a group of 6 from 1 June) in public keeping apart. You are advised to use face coverings in enclosed spaces like shops and on public transport. Wash your hands thoroughly for 20 seconds as soon as you get home. You must self isolate and not go out for 14 days if you have symptoms or the NHS instructs you to, or if anyone in your household has symptoms.

Coronavirus – Information on coronavirus is on the emergency page (updated on 28th May 2020). This links to official information, allows 'community volunteering', lists St Benedicts action and now has information on owner work and visitors to the Estate you must comply with. The cleaning and waste contractor uses protective equipment and wipes all flat block communal area surfaces normally touched with diluted bleach to kill viruses. The gardening contractor maintains social distancing.

Periodic and maintenence work – An update on periodic work was provided on 4th May 2020. Maintenance work is being extended to work that can be carried out safely as well as the essential.

Maintenance – The current maintenance page updated on 28th May 2020 shows work completed, ordered and planned. The major work page updated on 4th May 2020 has information on periodic repair and redecoration and flat block repairs. External work has had to be postponed because of the pandemic and internal work can no longer be carried out in 2020. As pandemic restrictions are relaxed, the Directors are considering carefully how to proceed and will provide updates on the web site in early June.

Introduction

The St Benedicts Estate comprises 189 flats and houses built in the mid 1980s and the surrounding grounds between Church Lane and Rectory Lane in Tooting, London SW17. The Estate includes all properties in Abbey Drive, Carlisle Way and St Benedicts Close as well as a few properties in Church Lane and Rectory Lane.

The houses and a housing association block of flats are owned freehold, while the private flats are owned leasehold. The freehold of the private flats and of the grounds is owned by St Benedicts (Tooting) Management Company Limited (referred to as the Management Company), which is a non-profit-making limited company mutually owned by the Estate property owners (and nobody else). Being mutually owned, the Management Company also acts as the residents' association within its remit.

Managing Agent & Contact

The Managing Agent currently appointed by the Management Company after a competitive tender is Rendall and Rittner Limited, Portsoken House, 155-157 Minories, London EC3N 1LJ, which is also the registered office of the Management Company. Rendall and Rittner's main telephone number is 020 7702 0701 and they are the main point of contact for all matters regarding St Benedicts. Faults on the Estate can be reported either using St Benedicts Online or to the Managing Agent.

Please ensure that the Managing Agent has up-to-date contact details for each owner, including those in the daytime, for use in an emergency. Remember to advise them of any change. You may do this either using St Benedicts Online or by completing this contact form (PDF) and returning it by post or by sending the same details in an email to the Managing Agent.

Location & Photographs

Links to the location of the Estate and photographs of the Estate.

Website, RSS Feeds, Twitter Page, Documents & Cookies

This website is provided by one of the current Directors of the Management Company within their personal web space because property owners opted to keep the website following a trial but not to pay for hosting. It has a dedicated web address: www.stbentooting.co.uk. Smartphones with a suitable application can scan the adjacent Quick Response (QR) code to access the website. Firefox, Opera, Chrome (from 28), Internet Explorer (from 7) and Edge browsers are recommended to view this website. To be widely accessible, it is tested with the current versions of main browsers and is written in standards-compliant HTML 4.01 using CSS 3 and JavaScript 1.5 requiring minimal modern features. Because they do not implement even old web standards properly, Safari and older versions of Internet Explorer (to 6) and Chrome (to 27) are not recommended.

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With reference to the European Union e-Privacy Directive that came into effect under UK legislation on 26 May 2012, this website does not use cookies so does not need user consent for them.
With reference to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation that came into effect under UK legislation on 25 May 2018, there is a privacy notice on the Management Company page.