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Announcements – Updated 30^th September 2021

Annual meeting – The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be online again using the provisions agreed last year as local Covid-19 infection rates remain high and fluctuating and may increase in winter. This reduces the risk of needing to postpone or cancel the meeting and to participants. The meeting date will advised once accounts have been produced in late November because an error prevented access to Rendall and Rittner's system, so is likely to be in late January. If any owners wish to stand for election as directors, you need to inform the managing agent before the meeting is called.

Newsletter – The September Newsletter is now available with important articles on periodic and other maintenance, work this year, water leaks, that the AGM will be online and reminders about flat leases not allowing pets, online applications and keeping communal areas clear.

Going paperless – Rendall and Rittner is going paperless and can no longer handle paper applications and cheques. All St Benedicts forms now need to be submitted online or, only if that is not possible, as a scanned copy, with any payments made by electronic transfer.

Parking permit holder – Request a permit holder to be delivered to your letterbox by completing this online application as these are now available again.

Keep safe – While legal restrictions have ended, infection rates in the local population remain high and fluctuating. The Management Company therefore strongly advises that you continue infection control measures by keeping 2 metres from other households, consider wearing masks (still required on local public transport), taking and using hand sanitiser, washing your hands thoroughly for 20 seconds as soon as you get home and avoiding unnecessary contact with visitors and tradespeople. You must self-isolate and not go out for 10 days if you have symptoms, test positive or are instructed to do so by NHS test and trace. More information can be found on the emergency page, updated on 26^th September 2021.

Maintenance – The current maintenance page updated on 30^th September 2021 shows work completed, ordered and planned. The major work page updated on 26^th September 2021 covers options for work after tenders proved unaffordable, flat block repairs in 2020, flat porch decoration completed, flat guttering and roof work in September, and future communal area work and flat window decoration.

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 represents the owners' and residents' interests within its remit.

Managing Agent & Contact

The Managing Agent currently appointed by the Management Company is Rendall and Rittner Limited, which provides the registered office of the Management Company. Rendall and Rittner is the main point of contact for all matters regarding St Benedicts.

Please ensure that the Managing Agent has up-to-date contact details for each owner. Both owners and tenants are asked to sign up to its Rendall and Rittner Online system to receive communications in emergencies. You are responsible for advising any contact changes. Preferably do this using St Benedicts Online but you can also contact the Managing Agent.

Preferably report faults on the Estate using St Benedicts Online but they can also be reported 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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You can subscribe to RSS feeds of announcements and changed web pages.
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.