Welcome to the website of the Canons Park Estate Association (CPEA). The area that we live in is unique in London as it is offers an oasis of calm and beauty within suburbia.

In all, there are over 320 houses and 66 flats on the Estate, which was created in the 1930s. At the same time, the CPEA was formed to maintain the trees, lakes and grass verges that formed the surplus lands left over after the area was divided up for housing, having originally formed part of the huge estate of the first Duke of Chandos, in the 18^th century.

Canons Drive, with its magnificent avenue of Wellingtonia trees, provides a beautiful backdrop to a number of locally-listed `Arts and Crafts‘ or ‘black and white’ Tudor-style houses, which also feature in the small closes and side roads that lead off it.

Our two lakes, which include the Seven Acre Lake – private, and surrounded by houses - and the Basin Lake on Canons Drive - for which we allow access to the general public - provide an opportunity for Residents and visitors alike to enjoy nature first hand, in a setting that is forever changing from season to season.

We hope you enjoy finding out more about the Estate by navigating this site. However, if you have any further questions, or need to contact us for any reason, please feel free to do so.

As Chairwoman of the CPEA I am proud to call the Estate home.

Myra Stephens

Membership of the CPEA

If you are not a member of the CPEA please contact one of the committee for an application form.

The members of the CPEA committee work on a purely voluntary basis for everyone's benefit. Over the past years the Association's activities have included the following:

• Oversee and maintain the Seven Acre Lake, The Basin Lake (duck pond), the grass verges and Wellington trees along Canons Drive and various other surplus lands with witch it was endowed when the estate was built in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Engaging contract gardeners to carry out care and maintenance work on the Basin and on the triangle at the entrance to Canons Drive
• Engaging a contractor to keep litter on the Estate under control - especially that left by visitors to the Basin.
• Engaging water bailiffs who look after the Seven Acre Lake, keep the pathways around it clear and tidy, and ensure that the fencing is secure and adequate to protect against trespassers.
• Engaging an engineer to advise on the associations responsibilities to the Environment Agency for maintaining the water courses around the Seven Acre Lake.
• Pressurising the council into installing additional litter bins at the entrance to the Estate and at Rye Way, which has also helped to reduce the litter problem.
• Installing (at our own expense) an additional litter/dog waste bin at the Basin and paid for the dog waste to be collected by the council.
• Arranging for professional tree work (costing £6,000) on the Associations trees along Canons Drive and around the Basin and Seven Acre Lake.
• Arranging for insurance to cover the risk of accidental injury to visitors or workers at both the Basin and the Seven Acre Lake.

                             The Association struggles each year with annual income of less than £10,000. Please support us.

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