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Announcements – Updated 28th November 2019

Newsletter – The December Newsletter available now contains articles on periodic maintenance, LED security lights, flat TV aerials, maintenance and the 2019 annual meeting.

Annual meeting – Notes of the Annual General Meeting of the Management Company held on Thursday 14th November 2019 are provided on the annual meeting page.

Periodic maintenance – Periodic repair and redecoration of flat blocks and Estate facilities is due in 2020. Preliminary work is underway, initial notice has been provided to flat owners as required by law and will be followed by tendering for the work required. Information is provided on the maintenance pages and this was discussed at the 2019 AGM.

Parking permit holder – Request a permit holder to be delivered to your letterbox by completing this online application as we have a further stock.

Maintenance – The maintenance pages are updated monthly to show work completed, ordered and planned, now to 23rd November 2019, and also have information on periodic repair and redecoration planned in 2020.

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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Summaries of announcements are also provided on our Twitter page.
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Documents are provided in portable document format (PDF). A link to install Adobe Reader to view them is provided at the foot of each page.
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.