FROM THE AUTHORITIES continuous reduction the following year. more in line with the resident’s work/lifestyle. Is Carpenders Park a safe place re crime? How can residents contact you, when As a whole, crime in Hertfordshire is low, but should we contact you? we still want residents to be aware of the risk It is best to contact me via email; my direct and offer the best service when possible. work email is [email protected]. Myself and my colleagues at the Safer We also have our Safter Neighbourhood Neighbourhood Team on Oxhey Drive still Team email which is [email protected]. offer out crime prevention advice with our This email is used should you have a minor ‘beat surgeries’, home security assessment issue you would like to highlight to my team. visits and signposting residents to partner This email address is monitored by myself agencies when possible. Carpenders Park has and my team, meaning someone will be able seen a decrease in crime by 16.5% - this to reply to you even if I am off duty. covering all crime that is recorded in the area. Alternatively, anyone can call 101 and quote Carpenders Park is unique being an area that my warrant number which is 6455 to speak is a No Cold-Caller area when I joined and with me. started working in Carpenders Park. My first We utilise OWL and our social media pages project was to reduce the number of residents to advertise when we are holding events. being victims to cold-callers and rouge These can be from local beat surgeries, traders. We have seen a decrease in calls to the ‘Coffee with a Cop’ to our Police and I have always new initiative, ‘Walk with encouraged residents to a Cop’. I encourage call us should they see one residents to sign up as it operating. There are some will give people traders that are genuine opportunities to speak with and miss the signs around us in person. the area, however some will unfortunately What activities other ignore them and act selfishly which is why than investigating and preventing crimes we take incidents like those seriously and do you get involved with help when we can. Apart from assisting with arrests, warrants How can residents protect themselves from and attending 999 calls, I have also assisted in being victims of crime? managing anti-social behaviour in Carpenders I encourage residents, especially during the Park. I have worked alongside shop owners longer nights in winter, to give their property and management, local authorities and the ‘Living in Look’. These can be by attended partnership agency meetings to investing in dusk till dawn lights, not to have manage the needs of the community. In my personal treasured belongings on show within role, I have been able to speak with local their homes someone may see and to make schools in our Mini Police Scheme. This is a sure when leaving the house that doors, weekly project aimed at primary school windows, etc are locked and secured. It is pupils to show them who we are in the Police always good for the homeowner to look at and educates them in different areas such as their property’s level of security to see if anti-social able behaviour, internet safety, there is room for improvement. My team and bullying. Officers from other departments are I can offer a property assessment whereby we also invited to provide input, such as British visit a resident’s home and offer crime Transport Police (BTP) and our Herts Dog prevention advice there and then that will be Unit. Ross Huegdon CPRA NEWS 51
Citizens Advice On our website we also have advice on things Three Rivers that can make damp worse and may impact the landlord taking responsibility for repairs. As the weather has turned colder, I’ve These include drying clothes on heaters or noticed mould and damp in our flat. It’s blocking air vents. mainly in our bedroom, including some If your landlord is responsible for the damp in black mould on the carpet. I’ve been your property but doesn’t act, there are steps chasing our letting agency, who say they’ll you can take, such as reporting them to the speak to our landlord. I’m really worried local authority. If you’re in social housing about how this might affect our health. you might also be able to use the landlord’s Our tenancy agreement isn’t up for eight formal complaints procedure. There is more months, what can I do? information about this on our website. If it It’s good that you’ve already raised the issue reaches the point where you want to get out of with your letting agency. Unfortunately, it a fixed term tenancy agreement early, do isn’t always easy to work out the cause of speak to an adviser first, as there might be mould or damp. This can make it difficult to better ways to approach the issue. work out if your landlord is responsible, Contact your local Citizens Advice or call our unless there’s an obvious cause, like a leaking Adviceline on 0800 144 8848 for roof. personalised support. You may also find There are many causes of damp that helpful information on: https:// properties can get. The most common are www.citizensadvice.org.uk/housing/renting- rising, penetrating, construction and privately/during-your-tenancy/dealing-with- condensation damp. On our website there is repairs/ information that may help you work out what We are open for face to face advice by type of damp you have, who is responsible appointment or ‘drop in’. We have outreach and what you can do. Check your tenancy services at South Oxhey Foodbank (South agreement too for mentions of repairs and Oxhey Baptist Church, Gosforth Lane, damp, and reach out to Citizens Advice on South Oxhey) 11am - 1pm every second anything you’re unsure about. Tuesday, the Mill End Foodbank (Methodist A landlord will have to act in relation to damp Church, Berry Lane, Rickmansworth) every if it makes the property unsafe for someone to Tuesday from 1pm - 4pm and at the live in. This could be for example, if it is Emmanuel Church in Northwood on the last making the tenant or a member of their family Friday of the month from 11am to 1pm. ill. The landlord will also be responsible if the damp is related to repairs they should have Please contact our offices for advice on carried out, like if heaters are broken. If the 01923 293136 (Rickmansworth), 01923 damp has damaged items that the landlord is 271707 (Abbots Langley) and 0208 5158321 responsible for, such as carpets and window (South Oxhey). Our county wide Herts frames, they’ll likely have to cover the cost of Adviceline is open Monday to Friday 10 am repairs. – 4pm, 0800 144 8848. You can check our One of the most common causes of damp is opening hours and also contact us directly condensation. To prevent this, it’s important via email through our website to keep homes well-heated and well- www.threeriverscab.org.uk ventilated, but for a lot of people this will be trickier to do given the colder weather and higher heating costs. You may be eligible for help to insulate and heat your home, and should visit our website to find out more. 52 www.CarpendersParkResidents.org.uk — [email protected]
LETTERS & ABOUT CPRA CPRA NEWS 53
CPRA Treasurer Report The accounts of the Association are for around £400. The Association is still our financial year 2021 ending on in good financial shape. 31st December 2021, and also include Rather than go through the Accounts the accounts for 2019 and 2020 as a item-by-item, I would like to highlight comparison. a few salient points. Looking at the bottom line, it can be We are continuing to operate without seen that we had a little over £ 8,500 at requesting subscriptions from our the end of the year, which is an in- members. As previously, therefore, creased over the previous year of our income is only from advertising, 54 www.CarpendersParkResidents.org.uk — [email protected]
and our major expenditure is the Independent Examiner’s printing cost of the Newsletter we Unqualified Report to the Members publish twice a year. of Carpenders Park Residents’ Our income has increased and this is as Association. a result of an increase in the number of I report on the Accounts of the advertisers we now have. Our thanks Association for the year ended 31 go to Sajida Chandoo and our December 2021, which are set out on Advertising Editor. the accompanying page. The other items of Expenditure remain Basis of the Independent Examiner’s substantially the same. Report I would like to acknowledge the much- My examination included a review of appreciated support we continue to accounting records kept by the receive from our local advertisers, Association and a comparison of the which allows us to issue the magazine Accounts presented with those records. free of charge to all our residents in It also included consideration of any Carpenders Park. unusual items in the Accounts. The As with last year, our printing costs procedures undertaken do not provide continue to be held down by much of all the evidence that would be required the preparatory work being done in- in an audit and consequently I do not house, in the capable hands of our express an audit opinion of the view News Editor, Chiara Breda. Our given by the Accounts. thanks go to Chiara for this. I would like, as ever, to thank all the Independent Examiner’s Statement Road Stewards for the work they do in In connection with my examination, no delivering the magazines. matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements to keep proper accounting records and to prepare Accounts which accord with the Sajida Chandoo accounting records have not been met (Treasurer January 2023) or to which. in my opinion. attention Treasurer’s Declaration should have been drawn in order to I confirm I have prepared the enable a proper understanding of the account for 2021 from the records of accounts to be reached. the Carpenders Park Residents’ Association and that they include all funds under control of the Association. Sadikali Premji (FCCA) Quorum House, 36 The Metro Centre Sajida Chandoo Dwight Road, Watford, WD18 9SB 3rd February 2022 CPRA NEWS 55
CPRA Committee Margaret Stanley - Chairwoman 8 St George's Drive………….….…[email protected]……….…07905 397297 Georgina Ford - Secretary 105 Carpenders Ave………….…[email protected]……...….…….020 8428 6501 Sajida Chandoo - Treasurer & Advertising 144 Penrose Avenue…………...…[email protected]……..….…….……..07773 912160 Chiara Breda - News Editor & FB Group Admin 10 Romilly Drive…………….……[email protected]…….…………..07599 376951 Robert Tunwell - Website 16 The Watergate……...…………[email protected] Nuala Buchan Brodie - Events & FB Group Admin 64 Margeholes ………..…………[email protected] …………………....07725260841 Neha Sha - Baby & Toddler Group 59 Oulton Way..…….…...……[email protected] …...………........07961 712805 Karen Perry - Committee 25 Harrow Way ………..…….…[email protected] …….…….…0208 8262 8772 Ann Archer - Committee 21 Lower Tail…………..….....…[email protected]……….…....…….0208 4287 221 Rachana Bhatt - Committee 61 Oulton Way...…….…...……[email protected]…...………........07939 466612 CARPENDERS PARK COMMUNITY HALL Bryan Jukes…………………...Booking Secretary…………………………….07415 361 794 Local Elected Representatives MP Dean Russell [email protected] 01923 296 790 Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner 01707 806 100 07455 210 408 David Lloyd [email protected] 07400 414 344 County Councillor / Reena Ranger [email protected] 07775 696 087 District Councillors [email protected] 07951 031 806 Shanti Maru 07534 080 736 Rue Grewal 07887 550 758 David Coltman 07596 543 524 Parish Councillors Angela Arnold Donna Duncan Valerie Coltman George Hallam-Attree 56 www.CarpendersParkResidents.org.uk — [email protected]
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