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Find out about the Salamander-Elbe-Cadiz-Assembly-Baltic Street tenement back green improvement and community project.

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SECAB Committee Constitution – Draft

Progress on SECAB and the garden has been a bit slow over the last few months. While it is a shame we did not manage to get it all sorted this year, we now have some time to get things ready for next summer. The main thing we need to set up to make this…

“There is no such thing as a new idea” – Mark Twain

If our tenements are ~130 years old, then surely someone has thought of creating an association for its residents before, right? Named something to do with the five streets around it, surely. Historical planning records are a wonderful thing. See this council website for more.

Dividing up costs across the back green

Whenever communal maintenance of any kind needs organised, how the costs get divided up can be the most contentious part of the discussion. The title deeds to a property are the first place to go and look. Since these define the property that owners buy, they can define their responsibilities to other owners too, and…

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