How Good Neighbours Help Your Association
This section is intended to provide a brief guide as to how members can ease the work of the Association remembering that your Directors are all volunteers who receive no remuneration or reward for looking after your interests. Below, we highlight some of the ways you can help. Some of these involve direct participation in Association activities, others are more indirect involving considerate actions that will minimise the risks of accidents or disputes between neighbours that the Association might get drawn into whether they are within its remit or not. Many of these guidelines are stating the obvious and are already followed by the vast majority of our members. Many of them have also been mentioned at one time or another in previous Newsletters. Nevertheless, we see no harm in restating them to effect a permanent record on the website. If members would like to suggest any additions or amendments please contact us through the Association email address or via a letter to the registered office, or raise them at the next AGM.
Drive cautiously, always within the 20mph speed limit, being aware of the many blind and concealed entrances, and taking additional care after dark. Our roads are narrow and without footways, so please show care and courtesy to pedestrians who share the carriageway with you.
Given the narrowness of the roads and limited visibility, on-road parking should not happen unless unavoidable, with all other parking options having been explored. Members pay subscriptions for our roads to be maintained and available for everyone to use as such; to obstruct them is discourteous and may hinder emergency vehicle access.
Ensure your visitors and contractors are aware of our roads’ limitations, their speed and parking requirements as detailed above, and insist they observe them.
If you are having building works or large vehicles delivering to your property, please ensure the driver approaches via the most appropriate route, avoids the narrowest roads, and is directed to somewhere appropriate to turn if required. To avoid large vehicles damaging roads and/or boundary features, it may be appropriate to specify smaller delivery vehicles with which our roads are better able to cope.
Ask contractors who are working for you to have consideration for neighbours by, for example, avoiding loud music from site radios and the use of bad language.
Keep hedges and trees on your boundaries under control so that foliage does not encroach over the roads or create nuisance to neighbours. Within a height of three metres above the road’s surface, foliage should not overhang the tarmacked carriageway.
Pick up dropped litter and spillage from wheelie bins wherever you see it; it is a collective responsibility to keep our neighbourhood tidy.
If you are a dog owner, please pick up your dog’s waste and take it home or to the Association’s bin at the Oaklands Rise entrance to the woods.
In icy conditions use salt from the Association’s bins sparingly and only for the treatment of the roads in our area not on private driveways.
Become interested and involved in the Association’s work and running, by reading our newsletters, attending AGMs and volunteering your time, skills and ideas as a Director.
Ensure the Association is able to continue its work in years to come by paying your subscription, and paying it on time thereby reducing the Directors’ workload.
