The Barbican Email Broadcast Service

The BEO operate an email list which they use to directly communicate with residents.  The Email Broadcast Service is used for urgent news about works, but also to let residents know about events, planning matters and more.

From the BEO:
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Let us keep you informed with the Email Broadcast Service

The Barbican Estate Office offers a free email broadcast service to all residents. There are now over 870 residents signed up for the service.

The Barbican Estate Office has sent out information via email on topics such as traffic consultations for the Olympics and Residents Meetings, but will also continue to place notices on the notice boards. 

The BEO is often told that residents do not always look at the notice boards, and we hope that this method of communication will be more successful.

If you have not submitted your email address, or have any queries on this service, please contact the Barbican Estate Office on barbican.estate@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Secure Bicycle Storage available

From the BEO

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Dear Residents

Following the success of the providing secure bicycle storage for residents we are pleased to offer further facilities in the form of Bicycle Pods. The secure Bicycle Pods are only £30 per annum for a space and cheaper than the bicycle lockers at £85 per annum.

The Bicycle Pods are available now within Defoe and Andrewes House Car Parks.

If you would like to rent a space within the secure Bicycle Pods for only £30, please contact Mark Collins on 0207 029 3955 or by email mark.collins@cityoflondon.gov.uk

With regards

Barbican Estate Office

2014/15 repairs charge is 85% over estimate

In the Actual Service Charges statement you will have received you may have noticed that the actual charges for 2014/15 General Repairs of £238,993 is quite a bit bigger than the estimate we were given.  Actual is a hair under 185% of the estimate which was £129,238.

We have asked the BEO for a breakdown of the actual figure and are awaiting a response.

How it appears in the statement:

These figures are for the whole of Ben Jonson House

Film School 'Enabling Works' may still happen

The Chair of the Breton House asked the City if they would still be going ahead with the enabling works for the Film School given that the Film School appear to have withdrawn.

The response:

The City Surveyors department are looking to carry out a review following London Film School decision to withdraw from the lease agreement, once this has been carried I will contact [The Barbican Association Chair] to arrange a meeting with the residents working group.

Regards Don

Donald Comrie

Senior Principal Project Manager

City Surveyor's Department

City of London

North Wing, Guildhall

T. 0207 332 1019

M. 07786685907

Email donald.comrie@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Website www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

Barbican Autumn Bulletin

From the BEO, we have the Autumn Bulletin.  Click on the link, or on the image below for an archived version (the archived version is not very pretty because the original didn't follow web standards :-( ).

Click this image for an archived version of the bulletin

Moorfields Highwalk Closing for 4 Years!

From the BEO:

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Dear Residents,

Please see attached notification of the Moorfields Highwalk closure programmed for implementation on 24^th September 2015.

As stated within the attached, if any unforeseen circumstances result in an envisaged delay in the closure, adequate warning will provided through a separate notification.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Kind regards

Barbican Estate Office

Click this image to see the document

Anyone for Bridge?

Here is a notice (naughtily placed in the house group notice boards in the lifts) asking anyone interested in playing Bridge to get in touch with the Barbican Bridge Club:

Click above image to zoom in