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Thorpe Bay

October 2013

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Local Issues

BERA: The Residents' Association

Interior Design Flash of Colour

Hair & Beauty Mane Attraction

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Local Issues

BERA : The Residents’ Association B

Another of our responsibilities is to advise Members of any legal issues on the Estate and our relationship with our Landlord, Thorpe Estates Limited (TEL). For example, in 2004 new legislation came into force that meant Landlords can no longer dictate what Insurance company In 1989, a house in Burges Terrace was the to use for Buildings Insurance, enabling Members subject of a planning application to convert it to ‘shop around’ to get the best deal, saving into three flats. Neighbours opposed the hundreds of pounds a year. application and were supported by other local residents. Off the back of this raised community Over the last 10 years, BERA’s biggest challenge awareness on the Estate, a public meeting was has been making residents aware of the fees held in 1990 at Thorpe Bay Tennis Club and BERA being sought for licences to make alterations or was formed, with the aim of protecting the area changes to their property. We have seen charges from unsympathetic development. The house from a few hundred pounds to many thousands, remains a family residence to this day. with legal and surveyor fees on top. This practice has been well documented on National Radio The object of the Association is still to protect the and TV, as well as our local newspapers. I am general character of the Estate and its often asked by residents why a licence is needed surrounding areas. We review all planning to make alterations to their own property. The applications and ensure any development is in answer is simple: whether you are a Freeholder keeping with the area and, of course, oppose any or Leaseholder, the Estate Landlord has the houses being converted into flats. We also work ownership of the Covenants attached to your hard to protect our street scene and open spaces. property and you have to seek permission. efore beginning on the main purpose of this month’s local issue, I thought it would be useful to remind ourselves of how and why BERA, the Burges Estate’s Residents’ Association, was formed.

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Leaseholders, in the past have purchased their Freehold at a cost of between £3,000 to £5,000, have not bought out their Restrictive Covenants, simply freed themselves from paying Ground Rent. More importantly, they have also removed themselves from the Act of Parliament which is there to protect Leaseholders!

Following on from the Amnesty in 2011, our efforts in raising the public profile of this issue and with expert legal advice from a London Barrister, BERA have negotiated an agreement with the Estate Landlord which presents a unique opportunity for residents. TEL has written to Leaseholders and Freeholders with an offer that will in effect remove the Restrictive Covenants from their Deeds.This will mean those that take up the offer will no longer be obliged to seek a licence from the Estate Landlord for alterations or other building work. Those residents that requires a licence to be sought for rebuilding will also no longer need to do so.

Some of you may be wondering why go to the expense of taking up the offer when you have no intention of changing or rebuilding your house.

Imagine the worst case scenario – a fire, flood or subsidence making your house unstable. Would you want the additional stress and cost of seeking a licence simply to rebuild your house?

Details of the offer are as follows: If you are a Leaseholder you may purchase your freehold free of any restrictive covenants. The purchase price payable to Thorpe Estates Ltd is £1,500.

If you are a Freeholder you may purchase the discharge of all restrictive covenants. The purchase price payable to Thorpe Estates Ltd is £750.

In both cases, absolute covenants will remain to protect the integrity of the estate, the street scene and from unwarranted development.

These covenants and any restrictive covenants remaining with properties will be enforced either by the current or a new landlord once the offer closes.

There will be some additional legal costs to cover the specialist work required to make the changes to your title Deeds, more information on this next month.

Residents who fail to take up this offer from Thorpe Estates Ltd may be risking the saleability/value of their property in the future compared to neighbouring properties that have no restrictive covenants in their title deeds.This is an opportunity to protect you and future generations from unnecessary charges.

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spend a large proportion of my working day discussing Elephant’s Breath, Mole’s Breath. Cat’s Paw, and Mouses Back with the occasional Dead Salmon. You would be excused for thinking I work in a zoo or that I am a qualified vet. However, you would be very wrong! My job is to help people create their vision of a beautiful home or place of work.

Fabulous new colours

There are many of us out there that love to spend time pouring over images of fabulous interiors, studying paint charts and collecting little sample pots. If you are one of these kindred spirits you will be thrilled to learn that in the last month two of the biggest and best names in Interiors have launched a Fabulous selection of new colours to their already glorious array of paint colours.

neutral and grey is far from over and now we have an excuse to decorate another room. My personal favourites are Loft White and Inox from Little Greene and Mole’s Breath and Ammonite from Farrow & Ball.

Tackling the neutrals is something most of us are confident enough to handle but what really creates the wow factor is when

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One may assume ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,’ but a study conducted by the University of Westminster suggests that guys actually fact prefer brunettes. A woman visited three separate nightclubs with her hair dyed brunette, blonde, or red – she was approached the most as a blonde, second as brunette and least as a redhead. However when inquiries were made with men in those clubs, they said they found her more appealing overall as a brunette, saying she came across most attractive, clever-looking, approachable and dependable. They thought a redhead would be more temperamental and a blonde needy. Ouch!

Blondes not necessarily preferred Such comments can be seen as mere stereotyping, but it was unusual to see that chaps, whether gents or not, really don’t prefer blondes. On the other hand, or paw, women of all hair types say they prefer men with dark hair - just like lionesses. Apparently, male lions possessing dark manes tend to be the pride leaders.

s Chloe Moretz stepped out of her limo and onto the red carpet at the Kick Ass 2 premiere in London she followed in the recent footsteps of Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lawrence, Britney Spears and Scarlet Johansson, by dramatically changing her hair colour and again re-igniting the classic argument – blonde v brunette.

In 2011 a survey of 2000 British blokes discovered that almost a third said they preferred brunettes. When the same was research was conducted in other countries such as France, U.S., Spain, Italy and Brazil, the most preferred hair colour was black. What’s that about men marrying versions of their mums…?

10% of population is natural blonde

And the moral of my story is? In a world of 7 billion people, it's important to find yourself and simply be yourself, whether you are blonde, brunette or have sky blue and pink tresses, your hair colour is simply a trait, it is not who or what you are.

Psychologists tell us that women who are not naturally born blondes tend to go lighter because they want to stand out. And they succeed – because only 10% of the population is actually naturally blonde. But it seems that old stereotypes die hard, because in the recent financial hard times, we have seen more fair-haired and blonde women dying their hair dark in a bid to be seen as more professional, serious or, indeed, intelligent.

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rince William recently recorded a video supporting the Amateur Swimming Association's (ASA) vision that every child has the right to learn to swim. Patron of The English Schools Swimming Association, the Duke of Cambridge added his voice to the ASA campaign following the findings of the 2013 School Swimming Census, the largest ever investigation into the state of school swimming. It reported that over half of 7 to 11 year olds in England, some 1.1 million children, were unable to swim the length of a standard pool and only 2% of schools were delivering the Government’s recommended tuition time per child for school swimming.

As the only subject on the National Curriculum that can help save lives, Thorpe Hall places great importance on teaching children to swim and they start the process early. 3 and 4 year olds in the school’s Nursery attend weekly fun swim sessions to help build confidence in the water and swimming is a permanent feature of the timetable each week and throughout the school year for all KS1 and KS2 year groups.

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and safe in the water, you really have to maintain regularity and start as soon as possible.

Swimming is something other nurseries in particular are either not willing or simply not able to offer. It is time consuming, takes careful planning and proper staffing but we have found it is certainly worth the extra effort with many successes, happy children and delighted parents”.

As well as Swimming, the weekly line up of activities at Thorpe Hall School’s Nursery offers specialist teaching in a range of subjects i ncluding Music, Dance, Drama, Sport, Cookery, French, Computer Skills, Art and Yoga. The programme is designed to encourage children to explore learning across the entire range of imaginative, creative, social and academic curricula with an emphasis on play and having fun.

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