Hi folks; apologies for the delay, but the meeting minutes for the November 10th committee meeting are now available here. We focused largely on the continuing discussion with the factor on the quarterly billing, but also covered the parking issue (resulting in the yellow line painting work mentioned before), and discussed the long standing mono-block issue and gardening contract reassessment.
If you live nearby, you’ll probably have noticed two bits of yellow line painting done over the last week. The first was to refresh the hatched box at the bottom of Sinclair Close which had become somewhat faded. The second was to paint an entirely new box in front of the sub-station next to 7 Sinclair Place. The cost for this should be around £400, split amongst the Sinclair development (306 ways).
The reason for this was fairly straightforward: the council refuse lorries have to come into that area of the development to reach two sets of bin stores (one between 1 and 6 Sinclair Place, the other next to 19 Sinclair Place). When cars are parked in the area by the sub-station, it means that the refuse lorry cannot get out of the area without a difficult reversing manoeuvre, or by doing a U-turn near to 18 Sinclair Place (which is what they have been doing). In the process, the heavy refuse lorry goes over (or in a case from early November: straight through) the parking poles, damaging them. It was agreed with the council that we would paint lines to prevent parking in that area, allowing the refuse lorry to perform a three-point turn by reversing into that area.
What happens when a 10 tonne refuse lorry decides to go over your parking space
This is particularly relevant because by getting the refuse lorry to reverse into that area means that when it travels over the area of damaged mono-block, it is doing so more slowly, and also not cornering at the same time. This should hopefully minimise additional damage there, and mean that we have longer before an expensive repair is required.
Just to make everyone aware, Nancy has informed me that the gutter cleaning has been arranged for the week beginning the 28th of November. This is for all stairwells (both in the Gorgie and Sinclair developments) but not the town-houses; the cost per property will be around £34, which includes both gutter cleaning as well as some limited tile repairs and checking of drainage.
Hi folks, the minutes from the first committee meeting can be viewed here. Largely the meeting was about nailing down our relationship with the factors. We agreed that the parking issue was worth a proper discussion, so due to time constraints we pushed that discussion to the next meeting, to be held in early November.
So, I’d like to ask again – if there is a specific area you think would benefit from double yellow lines being painted on a non-adopted section, or a bollard as was suggested, please get in touch with me, or the committee with the details so we can discuss it.
On a more general note, we have a website in place now: sinclairresidents.org.uk, which will serve as the committee’s way of communicating with the entire development, and we hope to flesh it out with more information on what is going on right now, as well as the history of the development as context for new proprietors. If you have any requests for what you’d like to see up there (or even better, content to contribute), again, please contact the committee.
The mailing containing the minutes from September’s general meeting will be sent out soon, hopefully, those who would like to read the contents in advance can do so here.
Just a note to thank everyone for attending last night, and to let others know the outcome. We had a great turnout, with 33 properties represented in person, and a further 11 properties represented by proxy, well in excess of the 35 properties we needed to reach quorum. The motion to instate a committee was passed with no votes against and one abstention, so we now have a properly formed committee with a very strong mandate to do its work. There were some minor revisions to the constitution wording agreed at the meeting, but nothing which ostensibly changes the role or responsibility of the committee, or the way it would function.