House Group - Please be a member

Please sign up as a member of the house group.  Without enough members the house group can not continue as an RTA.  All residents are welcome, but we need at least 50% of long leaseholders (owners of flats) to be members to qualify.

There is no cost for membership, other than the time it takes you take to sign up.

Please either use the new membership system (https://membermojo.co.uk/bjhg) as explained here.  Or, if you prefer paper you can use the same form we used the last time here.

Also, please do come along to the AGM each year.

Click here to visit the membership system

Xmas meeting & AGM 6th Dec 19:00

The house group Christmas meeting and AGM will be held on Tuesday 6th December 2016 from 19:00 to 22:00 in the Lilac Room.

As last year, there will be wine and mince pies to keep you busy while we conduct the AGM.

If you have not already done so, please sign up as a member of the house group using our new system here.

Cripplegate Ward Meeting 30th Nov

From the BEO:

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Cripplegate Ward Residents' Meeting

Dear Residents

All residents of Cripplegate Ward are invited to a meeting with your elected members on 30 November at 19:30. The meeting will be held in the Lilac Meeting Room at level 02 below Seddon House.

The meeting will be your opportunity to raise issues of concern with your elected Members for the Ward.

Bulb Planting Day - tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Sunday 6th November, is bulb planting day in the Barbican Wildlife Garden.  Green fingered people are invited to join in between 10:00 and 13:00.

Here is the flyer:

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Rattle Hall canned?

It seem the the project to replace the current Museum of London buildings with a new concert hall, backed by Sir Simon Rattle, has been killed.   An item on Barbican Talk points to a Guardian article on the subject.

He looks surprised

Visit the Southwark Waste Recycling Facility 21 Nov 10am

From the chair of the BA sustainability committee here is a chance to visit the Veolia recycling facility in Southwark.  If you do want to go along please see the the notices from Veolia explaining how to get to the site and the rules for being on the site (sorry about the formatting of the latter document - thank Microsoft).

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Here is another opportunity to visit the recycling facility where our dry recyclables are processed. It is a fascinating trip and comes highly recommended by the residents who visited in July.

Veolia can accommodate up to 20 visitors - so if you would be interested in joining the trip please let me know.

10.00 – Welcome with refreshments – presentation on the site/ H & S briefing
10.20 - Don Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
10.30 - Tour the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)
11.00 - Tour the Mechanical and Biological Treatment (MBT)
11.20 - Tour the Recycling Discovery Centre (RDC)
11.35 - Remove PPE
11.40 - Q&A
12.00 - Depart

The site is easily reached by public transport - either via the Northern Line to Elephant and then a 172, 453 or 53 bus - or a 172 bus from Little Britain or a 21 from Finsbury Square and it takes about an hour to get there.

The site visit is not suitable for anyone fitted with a pacemaker nor, unfortunately, for wheelchair users or those needing with walking aids.

Hope you can come.

Taylor Wimpey: a noisy spelling mistake

Taylor Wimpey must be feeling pretty confident that their Bernard Morgan House planning application will be approved because they put up a sign announcing the new development on the site they acquired.

... but they spelled acquired incorrectly:

Subject to spelling

Taylor Wimpey realised the blunder and sent a team to remove the signs ... at 05:30 on Friday morning, very noisily.

Sign removal under way

Thanks to the chair of the Breton House Group for the information and photos.