MEMBERSHIP

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 Wellingtonia 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 works at the Basin and Seven Acre Lakes, and various other small pieces of garden land on the Estate.
• 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 watercourses of 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 on the Association’s 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 also publishes its own newsletter, about three to four times a year, which is distributed to all households and carries advertising opportunities for local businesses and services.

Have you paid your CPEA membership for 2011?

If not please do so, as maintenance of the Estate is a costly business and EVERYONE benefits from the work of the Association – safeguarding our beautiful trees and lakes and helping to sustain the higher-than-average value of all our homes.

The membership fee is £100, to be paid annually – which comes to less than £2 a day. Where else could you find such good value for money?

If you are not currently a member of the CPEA please contact me for an application form. If you are new to the Estate I will also include a copy of the Rules, plus our most recent newsletter.

Existing Members’ standing order forms

The membership fee has recently been raised to £100, so if you still haven't adjusted your standing order please do so. Standing order forms are available from the Treasurer or myself and we would appreciate it if you could complete these as soon as possible, as we all know how long it takes to set up these new /amended instructions.

Thank you.
Robert Graham
Membership Secretary
robert.graham@btconnect.com