ncs newsletter 2002

Norland Conservation Society Summer 20021

Monday 8 July 2002at 7.30 pm in

St James’s NorlandsChurch

St. James’s Gardens,W11

All Norland residents arewelcome

Please join us, after themeeting, for food and

wineThere is no charge!Come and meet your

neighbours

ANNUAL GENERALMEETING

andSUMMER PARTY

2002

NCS NEWSLETTERThe Newsletter of the Norland Conservation Society Jubilee Issue June 2002

The Norland Conservation Areais designated by the Royal Bor-ough of Kensington and Chelseaunder the Civic Amenities Actof 1967 as being an area par-ticularly worthy of preservationor enhancement.

Many of the buildings within thearea are officially listed as be-ing of special architectural orhistoric interest. Others are notlisted but are an important partin maintaining the visual and ar-chitectural quality of the areaas a whole.

Founded in 1969, much of thesuccess of the Norland Conser-vation Society has become invis-ible. Gone are the dilapidatedhomes, fences and street furni-ture, replaced by a neighbour-hood whose architectural andcultural charm has been verymuch enhanced.

The key to the effectiveness ofthe Society in the community isa solid core of membership.

The Society needs members tocontinue its work and to main-tain the integrity of the area.

AGENDA

1. Apologies2. Chairman’s Report3. Treasurer’s Report

and Adoption of AnnualAccounts

4. Membership5. Election of Executive

Committee6. Guest Speaker:

Cllr Merrick Cockell(Leader of the Council)

7. Any Other Business

What is the role of the Society?It encourages and supports thepreservation and enhancementof the Conservation Area, it rep-resents the views of membersand presents a concerted forcefor them in dealings with thelocal authority, government de-partments, other bodies andapplicants for planning permis-sion.

Examples of matters on whichthe Society regularly makesrepresentations on behalf ofmembers include:!Planning, including unauthor-ised developments or use ofpremises and detrimental plan-ning applications. The NCS re-ceives from the Council earlyand direct notification of allplanning applications affectingthe area.! Tree applications! Planning Enforcement matters! Grants towards restorationand improvment.! Traffic routes and flows, in-cluding rat-run problems.! Repairs to roads and pave-ment.! Design and siting of streetfurniture.

To join the Society please con-tact the Membership Secretaryat 20 St Ann's Villas, LondonW11 using the form on the backpage of this Newsletter.


PLANNING 2001-2002

Some seventy planning applica-tions have been reviewed, andobjections or comments madewhere the proposals were ques-tionable.

Applications have ranged fromnear total redevelopment, as at104-6 Holland Park Avenue or116 Princedale Road, to inappro-priate and light-excluding ex-tensions as at 31 Royal Crescentor on a lesser scale 14 AddisonAvenue (at rear), to change ofuse at 84-89 Holland Park Av-enue to new shopfronts, substi-tution of wooden sash windowsfor plastic windows (never thesame appearance whatever theclaims of the suppliers), to ex-tensions ? sideways, rearwardsor upwards, and garden exten-sions.

We are glad to note that theCouncil has often supported ourobjections and either refusedthe applications, had them modi-fied or granted them condition-ally. We are grateful for theirsupport.

Rose House (1-12 PenzanceStreet), referred to in lastyear’s report, has now receivedplanning permission after somecosmetic modifications, follow-ing our consultation, to its unin-spired façade. We wish sin-cerely that developers wouldtake on board our desire forexcellence in architecture. Thisis a near-prime site and it hasnot, in our opinion, received therespect or finesse that it de-serves. A year of opportunitylost!

Now that St James’s NorlandChurch has emerged in all itsreinstated and cleanly glory, Ithink that we would agree thatall the work and the vast ex-penditure was well worthwhile.It is now a fully worthy centre-piece in our Conservation Area.Robin PriceExecutive Committee Member

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

Your Executive Committee hashad another busy and productiveyear though I must highlight anarea of concern.

We have a problem with mem-bership numbers this year todate. As our Membership Sec-retary notes, renewals are welldown. If you have not renewed,for any reason,but intended todo so, please take time to do sonow. You can use the form on thelast page of this Newsletter.

A broad and substantial mem-bership establishes our credibil-ity with local authorities, a situ-ation we have rightly been proudof in the past, and one we do notwant to lose.

Planning applications have beenregularly reviewed and appropri-ate comments made in anendeavor to uphold and preservethe unique character of our Con-servation Area. In all, some sev-enty applications were consid-ered during the year,demonstating the considerableactivity in our small area.

I should also like to draw yourattention to two other impor-tant planning initiatives outlinedin this newsletter which couldimpact upon us in the future -Infrastructure, Frameworksand Policies, a government ini-tiative and Jargon or Justice?,a RBK&C initiative.

In February, five members ofthe Committee met with MrMark Raisbeck, RBK&C ChiefTraffic Engineer, to discuss ourtraffic problems and presentour case for measures to mini-mize traffic volumes and speedsin the area.

The group walked around partsof the Conserfvation Area forover an hour demonstating to MrRaisbeck areas of major con-cern. The next step will be toselect, with the RBK&C, moni-

toring positions on selectedroads and then with this datadecide how best to deal with theissues.The Annual Lecture was a greatsuccess. The ‘Restoration ofHistoric Gardens’ wasinteresting,well illustrated anddelivered with great enthusiasmby Letta Jones MA and we thankher for her efforts.

I wish to draw your attentionto our website which is at:

www.norlandsociety.org.uk

as this still appears to be underutilised.

Please take the time to log on,offer input if you can and let ushave comments regarding itsformat and utility.

My thanks to all the membersof the Executive Committee fortheir time and efforts in guid-ing the Society during the yearand in particular for their sup-port to me.

We all express our appreciationto our long serving Treasurer,Ian Hodgson, who stepped downin March. Both Ian and his wifeMao, a former Committee Mem-ber, long to be remembered forher splendid AGM sandwiches,served the NCS well. They gooff to live in Italy and we wishthem a very happy life there. Weare fortunate to have MartinShort to take over the Treas-urer’s mantle.

Finally, we hope that you will likethe new style of our newsletter.We think it represents an ex-citing step forward but verymuch welcome your comments.

My appreciation to all the con-tributors and particularly toCouncillor David Campion forpromoting the new format andundertaking its production in hisusual dedicated manner.Anthony PerryChairman


ANNUAL LECTURE 2002

The Restoration of HistoricGardens

This year’s annual lecture wasgiven by Letta Jones MA onWednesday, 20 March 2002 atthe Ukrainian Social Club.

Introducing her talk, LettaJones raised the question ofwhy we restore our historic gar-dens and then went on to explainand illustrate the different ap-proaches to bringing them backto life and the research and re-sources need to do it.

From time immemorial, goingback as far as the founding ofPompeii, the garden has beenconsidered as important as thehouse itself; in fact sometimesthe two were designed to com-plement one another.

This was the case at Kenwood,where Humphry Repton’s land-scaping of the grounds was de-signed to complement RobertAdam’s remodelled house in theeighteenth century.

House and garden, therefore,need to be considered as a unitwhen undertaking restoration,as was the case with the gar-dens at Ham House.

There often arises, too, thequestion of what period to re-store to, when a garden has beenchanged over the years, bear-ing in mind that any interventionwill change the appearance ofthe site.

The historic gardens which havecome down to us were, first andforemost, due to the inspirationof their often aristocratic own-ers, but their actual realisationwas the work of a host of peo-ple, ranging from architects,garden designers, estate man-agers and, of course, an army ofgardeners.

Broadly speaking, the ap-proaches to bringing gardens

‘back to life’ are:restoration,

reconstructionre-creation.

Restoration occurs where suf-ficient information exists toreturn a garden to its originalcondition, as with the gardensof Fulham Palace and the nine-teenth century Italian garden atHolland House.

Reconstruction is carried outwhere plans, engravings or foun-dations exist in sufficient de-tail to enable reinstatement. Atthe Roman Palace of Fishbourne,built in AD 10, it was possible totrace the original ground plan ofthe box hedges and so to re-es-tablish them.

But the prime example is theprivy garden at Hampton Courtwhich, after removal of the Vic-torian garden, was recon-structed on the basis of engrav-ings and archaelogical remainswhich showed the patterns ofthe seventeenth century par-terres. The statues were alsoreinstated.

Re-creation, or pastiche, is re-sorted to where there is no ex-isting example and where it is inthe public interest to createone. At Singleton’s Weald andDownland Museum, in West Sus-sex, a medieval Yeomans vegeta-

ble garden has been created aspart of a living museum.

In order to achieve authentic-ity and historical accuracy, de-tailed and painstaking researchis needed to establish dates ofownership, boundaries, plantspecies of the period (some ofwhich may no longer exist) andeven the character of the ad-joining landscape. Fortunately,sources of information have nowmuch improved and there is ac-cess to title deeds, bank ar-chives, family diaries, oral his-tory and garden literatureamong others.

This work requires, first, thatthe public will to do it, for whichthere has been a change in atti-tude over the years, helped bythe foundation of the GardenHistory Society in the 1950sand, second, the availability offunding from a variety ofsources, including the NationalLottery.

In the course of her illustratedtalk Letta Jones gave us an au-thoritative and engrossing ac-count of the love and care, skillsand knowledge which went intothe creation of our historic gar-dens and of the steps that weare now taking to preserve themfor posterity.Kathleen H HallExecutive Committee Member


AN EXTRACTOF GOLD

As this is the Queen’s Jubilee year, I wanted to write a poemwith a skein of gold. My poetic skills to not run to anything goodenough so instead I have selected some gold from the following:

These verses, from the Victorian poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,touched a more rural theme than we are used to but neverthe-less:

I like the calm of the early fields, The ducks asleep by the lake,The quiet hour which nature yields, Before mankind is awake.

I like these things, and I like to ride, When all the world is in bedTo the top of the hill where the sky grows wide, And the golden sun

grows red.

I covet not a wider range, Than these dear manors give,I take my pleasures without change, And as I lived I live.

I leave my neighbours to their thought; My choice it is, and prideOn my own lands to find my sport, In my own fields to ride.

Then these verses from Wilfrid Thorley’s “Buttercups”

There must be fairy miners, Just underneath the mouldSuch wondrous quaint designers, Who live in caves of gold.

They take the shining metals, And beat them into shreds:And mould them into petals, To make the flowers’ heads.

Sometimes they melt the flowers, To tiny pearls like beans,And store them up in bowers, For ladies and for Queens.

And still a tiny fan turns, Above a forge of gold;To keep with fairy lantern, The world from growing old.

This one verse by Christopher Marlowe seems very apt:

A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull,Fair linèd slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.

And finally this from J.Hampton Gurney’s well known hymn:

Fair waved the golden corn, In England’s pleasant land,When full of joy, each shining morn, Goes forth the reaper-Band.

Veronica ScottExecutive Committee Member

TRAFFIC

Whilst having only lived in theNorland Conservation Area fora little over three years I havebeen most impressed that thetraffic concerns within the areahave united so many of those liv-ing in the location to act collec-tively and individually by lobby-ing the Council to take some ac-tion to ensure that our streets

remain safe for our children andresidents.

I am, however, equally disap-pointed that these calls have yetto yield any action by the Coun-cil but I am pleased to say thatthere has been some construc-tive contact over the pastmonths.

So what is the issue? Basicallyit boils down to the fact that

we have too many vehicles goingtoo fast along our roads and thatmost are using the entry roadsthat face Holland Park Avenueas a as a means for getting tothe north of St Anne's Villa'svia a variety of short cuts.

We suffer from the fact thatQueensdale Road, St James'sGardens, Princedale Road andPortland Road offer long,straight and wide alternativesto Holland Park Avenue and frus-trated motorists see these av-enues as an open invitation to re-lease their stress whilst in-creasing ours. There has alsobeen a large increase in thenumber of families with youngchildren that have recently ar-rived in the area and this dimen-sion also needs to be taken intoaccount in our discussions.

Many years back, action wastaken by the Council to block offClarendon Cross due to localpressure and a bad accidentrecord. This prevented throughtraffic and had the effect ofinstantly pushing heavy goodsvehicles back onto Holland ParkAvenue. We are hoping that theCouncil will be able to come upwith a similar solution to ourtraffic issues.

We are constantly remindedthat there is some reluctance toput in traffic managementschemes as improving one loca-tion may then have a negativeside effect in adjoining areas.This should not deter us fromfinding a solution however, butwe should be aware that any planwill be heavily scrutinised.

Recently, the Norland Conser-vation Society Committee mem-bers had a good meeting withofficers from the Council wherewe presented our case for sometraffic calming measures.Thenext step in the process will beto select monitoring positionsalong certain roads within theWard and with this data decidehow best to deal with the issue. (continued on Page 8)


Infrastructure, Frame-works and Policies

Since change, whether useful ornot, is creature of life to all gov-ernments, DTLR has unloadedsince last December two paperson the planning process, bothmanifestly developer-led.

The first, Major InfrastructureProjects, deals with airports andrunways, ports, trunk roads, railschemes, power stations andreservoirs, and the like.

It is not seen as affecting theRoyal Borough, so I shall ignoreit, except to say that the pro-posals place enormous over-rid-ing powers in the hands of gov-ernment, with very little review.So much for democracy!

The second, Delivering Funda-mental Change, could affect theRoyal Borough.

In seeking, very properly toclear up planning anomalies anddelays and to streamline and in-tegrate some planning powers,its proposed Local DevelopmentFrameworks and their Core Poli-cies are unlikely to draw thesame protection to ConservationAreas as the existing stringentpolicies developed so carefullywithin the current UDP and Con-servation Area Policy State-ments. Indeed, the new propos-als are far too generalised notto attract the greed of devel-opers.

Fortunately, the Royal Boroughis likely to continue with therecently revised UDP, as permit-ted under the proposals, untilthe next proposals and theirworking become clearer. TheKensington Society is in touchwith the Council over this andwill keep a close eye on develop-ments. One wonders when gov-ernment will run out of wordsto express structure. Scaffoldsnext, perhaps?Robin PriceExecutive Committee Member

Jargonor Justice?

In what we must hope is apraiseworthy and practical at-tempt to re-think communitiesand to ensure that no-one willbe disadvantaged by the area inwhich they live, government hasmade the receipt of certain lo-cal government money depend-ent upon setting up Local Stra-tegic Partnerships.

These Local Strategic Partner-ships are intended to co-ordi-nate Council, Council services,amenity and other citizens’groups, voluntary aid bodies, in-dividual residents and the like,to set up agreed long-termstrategies for optimising thesocial and built environment.

From such Partnerships (ours iscalled the Kensington and Chel-sea Partnership) will derive theCommunity Strategy and theNeighbourhood Renewal Strat-egy, the last of which will focusdirectly on what needs to bedone, and how to do it in themost effective way.

Your committee has alreadybeen represented by two of itsmembers at an initial explana-tory meeting for North Kensing-ton, leading to the Kensingtonand Chelsea Partnership.

We learned much from it, notthe least that the Council in-tends fully to engage local resi-dents in all that is proposed andall that is done.

This is surely right, and an ex-cellent and proper way to cre-ate more fully responsive andvibrant communities.

We have, of course, to remainfully aware that it is not a chari-table remit to be other than anamenity society with a particu-lar interest in planning, butthrough that planning we cansometimes mediate, quite prop-erly, a social concern.

But, to be honest, though wewant it to work, will it? Too of-ten government has simplyshifted the pieces on the board,created rosy (but flatulent) mis-sion statements - and been ex-traordinarily and even fraudu-lently short on outcome. Wehope it will work, we shall do ourbest to make it work - but willit be, after all, yet another Ini-tiative, Framework, or Strat-egy? Jargon, or, thisonce per-haps, Justice?Robin PriceExecutive Committee Member

St James’s Gardens

The church of St. James,Norlands, by Lewis Vuilliamy,with its newly cleaned exteriorof white Suffolk bricks and re-stored stonework looks almostas pristine as it did at its con-secration on 17 July 1845.

Inspired by its gleaming appear-ance, I decided to find out aboutthe original people living in thesquare around it when it wasfirst built. So I went to LocalStudies Library, Kensington, todo some research on the earlyresidents of St. James’s Gar-dens and the Conservation Area,and the history of our particu-lar house.

The original fine name of St.James’s Square was changed to


St James’s Gardens in July1939. The houses in the squarehad all been renumbered on 7thDecember 1877: our house,which was numbered 46 be-came 52.

The Survey of London, vol.XXXVII Northern Kensington1973 gives an excellent shorthistory of Norland, with theplans and elevations of thehouses of the whole area, withdetails of railings and cornices.The elevations the older seriesof houses in St. James’s Gar-dens were designed by the ar-chitect John Barnett, and builtbetween 1847-1851. Focussingon our house, there was a noti-fication to the District Sur-veyor of the erection of houseson the south side of the square(numbered 47-54) dated De-cember 1850. The builders ofthis section were DavidNicholson Senior and Junior ofWandsworth under contract tothe St James’s Square BenefitBuilding Society.

According to the Survey, thehouseholders in the Conserva-tion Area followed a general pat-tern of lawyers, naval and armycaptains, merchants, business-men. However, certain differ-ences can be detected betweenthe streets, squares and cres-cents.

In Addison Avenue, apart from

stockbrokers and 3 merchants,there were a gunmaker, a fur-rier, a horse dealer, a victuallerin the Norland Arms, a fruiterer( was he as expensive asMichanicou?), an omnibus propri-etor (we need him now to makeup for the dearth of No. 94buses!).

In 1851, Royal Crescent still hada dozen houses empty - andapart from the usual lawyers,stockbrokers, there were 2clergymen “without cure” (pre-sumably without a church, per-haps retired?)

Norland Square soundedwealthier and even exotic witha Russian diplomat and an Ameri-can author with seven servants.

In St James’s Gardens, thenumber of servants was consid-erably smaller: people struggledalong with one or at the mosttwo servants per house. Onepoor Professor of Music and hiswife, at 28 St James’s Gardens,in 1861, had 7 children (rangingfrom twelve years down to 2months old) and only one serv-ant! Hard work with all that car-rying of water and coal, makingup fires, etc.Focussing on St James’s Square,according to the Census Booksfor 1851, no one was listed asliving in our house by that earlydate - it was not yet inhabited.The occupations of other resi-

dents in the square were moreheterogeneous: they included amilitary agent, a boatmaker, acivil engineer, a coal merchant,a wool merchant, an ironmonger,a stone merchant, a wine mer-chant, a military contractor, aclergyman “not having care ofsouls”, and an artist/painter, aswell as solicitors and account-ants.

St James’s Gardens was alsovery family minded - lots ofnephews, nieces, family visitorsand sisters were listed as stay-ing in the houses when the cen-sus was taken. The servants’names were also listed in theCensus with one or two serv-ants per house.

By the time of the next census(in 1861), the occupations ofhouse-owners in the square hadchanged slightly. The serviceswere more in evidence; andthere were many more“fundholder” women (of inde-pendent means), and one “lady”.The list included an army cap-tain, a retired commander anda captain in the R.N., a Rear-Admiral, a photographer, a mus-lin agent, a wholesale stationer,a Weslyan missionary, a seniorclerk at Somerset House (hewas rather “posh” at No. 1 StJames’s Gardens with manyservants and a governess).

In 1861, I was delighted to finda young family living in our house,maybe its earliest inhabitants.The head of household wasJames Seymour - an ironmaster( manufacturer of iron) fromPoole, Dorset and his wife and 3children - Kate aged 6, Edward,5 and Fanny 4 with a young serv-ant of 19 from Bury St Edmunds.I was pleased because our ownfamily has that arrangement ofchildren with two daughters anda son called Edward in the mid-dle.

The Post Office London direc-tories for Kensington, NottingHill (on microfilm) date onlyfrom 1870s for our square.


THE NORLAND CONSERVATION SOCIETY WEB SITE

A large number of local societies across the country now have theirown websites which are used as a means for providing informationboth for their own members and also anyone else who may wish tofind out about their roles in society.

The Norland Society is no exception and has attempted to followthis trend.

The advantages of a website are that it can be updated with newcontent as required so that members do not have to wait for thenext formal issue of a Newsletter which may only come quarterlyor annually.

Perhaps, more importantly, a website provides a useful means forrecording information for historical purposes which is readily avail-able and perhaps more so than within the filed archives of an or-ganisation.

Those with an interest in obtaining further information about theNorland Conservation Society, and who have access to the Internet,can have a look at our website at:

www.norlandsociety.org.ukThis contains copies of the current and previous Newsletters as asource of historial information. You will need a copy of the AdobeAcrobat Reader software on your computer to display the latestNewsletters.

These reflected what the Sur-vey of London had observedthat there were many femaleheads of household in St.James’s Square. I noticed thatMrs. Radermacher was Head ofHousehold of our house in 1876,Mrs Sinclair Bligh in 1882 and1884, while Elizabeth Davis wasthe owner in 1891. Pursuing theidea that there was a prepon-derance of female heads ofhousehold, I went through theCensus Books (again on micro-film) for 1891, and found thatthere were altogether seven-teen widows or women of “own”or “independent means “(other-wise described as“fundholders”) who were ownersof 17 out of the 54 houses inthe square. This seemed anenormous proportion of womenowners which was surprisingconsidering the date of 1891.

The Electoral Roll for 1891 didnot list any Parliamentary Elec-tors for our house. Why not? Ofcourse - in 1891 women did nothave the vote. However, theElectoral Roll for 1908 listedmany female parochial electors- women were allowed to voteon Parish affairs.

The very nice Librarian who washelping me suggested that per-haps these female “heads ofhousehold” were owners ofhouses of Ill-Repute. In defenceof St James’s Gardens, thiscould not be the case: CharlesBooth’s 1898-99 DescriptiveMap of London Poverty (whichcolours in the streets accord-ing to the composition and classof their inhabitants) classifiedSt James’s Gardens with thecolour “Red”: that is as “well todo, middle class, with 1 - 2 serv-ants” (the second category downin the hierarchy). There weredefinitely no “Madams” in St.James’s Gardens!

By the time of the Census of1891, it seems our own house hadgone down a little in the world.Elisabeth Davis, Head of House-hold, was listed as a “ Boarding

House Keeper” and her fatherwho lived in the house was a“Paragraph writer” (what canthis have been?). She took in“boarders”. I noticed that in1898 (according to the ElectoralRoll) there were 6 men rentingfurnished rooms in the square.Some were paying 15 shillingsper week, others £20 per an-num.

However, the church was in noway going down in the world. Inthe 1880s, there were attachedto the church of St James,Norlands, a vicar, and the im-pressive number of 7 curates.Would Hugh Rayment Pickard beenvious? – or not?Catherine WilsonExecutive Committee Member(I am very grateful to the Council’s LocalStudies Library for its help).


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE2001 - 2002

Chairman: Anthony Perry 10 Penzance PlaceHonTreasurer: Martin Short 122 Portland RoadHonSecretary: Bee Hopkins 43 Norland SquareMembership: Rosemary Bauccio 20 St Ann’s VillasPlanning: Robin Price Flat 2, 5/7 Princedale RoadEnvironment: Kathleen Hall 6 Taverners CloseMembers: Marie-Lou Bakker 54 Princedale Road

David Campion 12/13 Pembridge CrescentKate Dobbs 13 Portland RoadAmanda Frame 23 St James’s GardensJulie Mills 42 Portland RoadJohn Murlis 41 Royal CrescentMichael/Lisa Newsom Davis 11c Queensdale RoadSimon Orr-Ewing 5/29 St James’s GardensVeronica Scott 24 Addison AvenueCatherine Wilson 52 St James’s Gardens

This Newsletter was edited byAnthony Perry. The photos weretaken by and the layout composedby David Campion using AdobePageMaker 6.The Newsletter was printed by: E B Reproductions4 St Johns Terrace, London W10

MEMBERSHIP

Since January when we sent outour annual membership renewalslips and our invitation for newmembers to join the Society,there has been a stream of re-sponses. The net result is thatmany of our regular membershave renewed their subscrip-tions and a few new membershave joined. Thank you all foryour support. It is most impor-tant that we seek as broad amembership as possible so thatour dealings with local authori-ties can be truly effective.Our credibility is at stake andour voice becomes weaker with-out your support through mem-bership of the Society.Notwithstanding the responseswe have received, our member-ship is far below that of previ-ous years and that which we feelis optimal. And we’re not surewhy. Maybe some of our old cus-tomers have upped-sticks andmoved; maybe you are a newresident and missed our mem-bership letters in January;maybe the renewal slip is bur-ied under a pile of paper waitingfor attention. Whatever thereason, it is not too late.The Gift Aid Declaration intro-duced this year, which allows atax return to the Society onsubscriptions, has been reason-ably well taken up by members.We would like to encourage allour Members to subscribe inthis way.Just complete the form on thispage (or a copy of it if you wishto retain this Newsletter intact)and either forward it to theMembership Secretary or bringit with you to the AGM.Rosemary BauccioMembership Secretary

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The development of the WhiteCity complex over the next fewyears and the implementation ofthe congestion charges that maycome into effect next year willcertainly effect traffic volumesand therefore a survey under-taken soon will allow us to es-tablish a meaningful benchmarkfor future traffic growth.In the meantime I would be

happy to share with you furtherdetails of our discussions withthe Royal Borough of Kensing-ton and Chelsea and would verymuch encourage all of you towrite to Mr Mark Raisbeck,Chief Traffic Engineer, TheTown Hall, Horton Street withyour thoughts.Martin ShortExecutive Committee Member

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