Which improvements would you like?

Under consideration are various improvements.
It is up to us, the residents to ask to have the work done.

(IT HAS TO BE WORK TO A PUBLIC SPACE)

The funds available are initially only a maximum of 3 thousand pounds (which can be doubled to £6k from another budget if appropriate) but there are additional grants available for work that "enhances a public space".
The work can be carried out by either Hackney Homes or an approved organisation or private company.

Suggestions so far are:
1. A secure bicycle shed for residents
2. An enclosure for the bulk rubbish
3. (Start) redecorating the estates stairwells and entrance hallways

Do you have a suggestion?
Do you have a pet project?
or would like to see a particular addition or alteration
done to the estates grounds or buildings?

Please leave your ideas in "COMMENTS" below
or email them to tra@beecholme.co.uk

more to come soon, including photos & plans for the different contending projects.

Upgrade needed to entry phones? See my POLL & NEW Beecholme Diary below.

See comments left by others or leave your own!
simply click on "COMMENTS" below every article.

ENTRY PHONES at BEECHOLME

and don't forget..
.. for this & any other issue you can get results by coming to
the tenants & residents meetings.
The next one is on Tue 25th Sept at 7.30pm at the hall.
email: tra@beecholme.co.uk

That is to say, the internal door phones, as illustrated above.

They currently have no volume control and are so loud that during the day you can hear the bell ring a floor away through 4 doors and at night 2 floors. Couples with young children have my sympathies trying to give them an afternoon nap.

The "privacy" button has been timed (to specs asked for!!) to about 4 or 5 hours so that if you put it on at 10pm (for an early night), you run the risk of being woken along with everyone else at 3am - as we have been numerous times over the last few months.
I've even been woken at3.30am by someone ringing the doorbell a floor above me!

Everyone I've spoken to would be prepared to pay a reasonable sum to have the alteration or upgrade done.

Of course, if standard Procurement Design Protocols (see below)were in place and adhered to there's always the chance that the better solution may have been made in the first place.

If it turns out, as I suspect, that the quality of life - directly related to lack of sleep, volume and nuisance or "mistake" bell rings - is such now that everyone would pay to get the door phones upgraded, then that should have been taken into account in the first place as a cost.

That being the case, as usual, the cheapest option turns out to be a false economy.


SEE MY POLLS ON DOOR PHONES
Please take the time to tick one of the four options
(on the left)

Estate signage

I am currently making an effort to provide Hackney Homes with a better alternative to estate signage - without compromising corporate ID.
Below are some examples that, though not much of an improvement, do show individuality is attainable whilst retaining a strong ID.

Here's another version.

I have a couple more, but you get the idea.

I literally put these together (& 3 more) on a laptop in less than an hour. There's room for substantial improvement.