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Concerned Residents

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Step-by-Step 19th May 2012 

Your New Share Number and OUR AGMs ...

We are posting YOUR new share numbers as registered at Company's House ... Which share ... of what ... will YOU be voting with? ... And does your vote have any meaning anyway?

Further information will also be posted on our blog.
SHAREHOLDERS ARE ONCE AGAIN KEPT IN THE DARK
COURTLANDS ESTATE (RICHMOND) LIMITED

MONITOR ALERT - The following changes have taken place

26/09/2011 - Appointment of director

26/09/2011 - Appointment of director



Recent News Items

  • Saturday 24th September: ANNUAL CONFERENCE CARL in High Street Kensington, London
    CARL is the Campaign for the Abolition of Residential Leasehold
    P.O. Box 26369, London N8 7ZL
    If you are not able to attend the Meeting you can send your questions for consideration in advance:
    charlotte@carl.org.uk
    info@carl.org.uk

  • Thursday 14th July : Bates Wells and Braithwaite and
    Trustees Unlimited invite you to: Pre-Board Training: 5pm – 7.30pm. £35:00. Venue: The National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL. NCVO, London. Transport: King's Cross / St. Pancras.

  • 13th July : Top Lawyer to Deliver FREE Bribery Act Seminar

  • 25th June - 9th July is UK Co-operative Fortnight
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  • From Chris Bruce: He just signed up to dump Radioactive waste in a private landfill site - I'm sure Eric Pickles will have no problem destroying the woods.

    by Mr Pickles in 2010: "I am very concerned planning decisions made by our locally elected representatives being overturned by the Government’s Planning Inspector. ...[In one example] the Inspector said that the Council’s reason for refusal was not substantial as it was based on local residents’ opposition. Forgive me, but is this not the most robust of arguments? Shouldn’t local people be able to make local decisions through their locally elected representatives?

    Years of campaigning by local folk is ignored as a stranger visits town, probably never to return and his decision can leave peoples’ quality of life and local landscape ruined by an unwanted development."

    Also Do check this out too: www.communities.gov.uk/news/newsroom/1794971
    nothing like career progression to help you forget....!

    On May 10th permission was granted to expand a ragstone quarry and destroy ancient Oaken Wood.
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    from John Bruce Cairns and the Woodland Trust:

    Kent County Council's Planning Committee concluded that the direct loss of this irreplaceable
    habitat and the negative impact on the local wildlife site were outweighed by the
    'benefits of the project'. Once again, loopholes in ancient woodland protection will
    result in the destruction of our 'rainforest'.

    But there is a sliver of hope. Because this expansion is not included in the Local Minerals Plan, the Secretary of State for the Department of Communities and Local Government will now be asked by Kent County Council to 'rubber stamp' this decision. The fate of 81.5 acres of wildlife-rich ancient woodland now lies in Eric Pickles' hands.

    Time is tight:
    within 21 days we could see Oaken Wood lost forever... unless we work together to convince Eric Pickles to 'call in' this application!

    TAKE ACTION
    www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/campaigning/woodwatch/case-studies/Pages/oaken-sos.aspx

    This application is highly controversial for a number of reasons - which is why government scrutiny is needed. The Environment Secretary, Caroline Spelman, recently restated the Coalition's commitment to be the 'Greenest Government ever' - if Mr Pickles calls in this case he will prove hat this pledge is not simply words.

  • Tags: wood


    CROC supporter to undertake

    Social Enterprise Training ...



    Perhaps one or more members of the board would benefit from going on the understanding social enterprise course?!

    From: Social Enterprise London
    Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:27 PM
    subject: Social Enterprise Training opportunities
    Call us on 020 7033 2604
    www.sel.org.uk

    Social Enterprise Training

    Understanding social enterprise
    (ILM-accredited course)
    A three-day course for social enterprise managers and advisors
    Cost: £827 + VAT Tuesday 24 May, Tuesday 21 June and Tuesday 26 July

    Are you ready for social enterprise?
    A half-day workshop for newcomers to the social enterprise way of doing business
    Cost: £75 + VAT Tuesday 19 April

    Transitions: establishing social enterprise out of the public sector
    A one-day introduction to models of alternative public service delivery
    Cost: £225 + VAT Wednesday 20 April

    SIMPLE Social impact assessment for social enterpriseboard
    (ILM-accredited course)
    A two-day course on how to demonstrate the true impact of your work
    Cost: £627 + VAT Thursday 2 June and Thursday 7 July

    If you would like to run one of these courses tailored to your needs, just give us a call.

    CONSULTANCY

    Are you interested in undertaking an annual sustainability review? Does your organisation want to explore new enterprising opportunities? Do you want to develop your business?
    SEL offers a range of high quality, practical consultancy and facilitation services – this can be 1 day, 5, 10 days or more. We will work with your team to develop bespoke solutions.



    Planning Law and Your Rights.

    Here is a direct link to:

  • the Planning Application Search Page for
  • Richmond-upon-Thames.
    .
    It is sometimes quite interesting just to be nosey and to see what is happening around you! It's your environment - why dhouldn't you?

    Subject:
    Listed Buildings: Demolishing Red Tape.


    Currently, buildings and other structures of special architectural, historical or cultural significance are protected by means of a listing system. The list is compiled by the Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on advice from English Heritage.



  • Tip for others concerned residents:
  • Check that all the directors within the company you are in dispute with are legally registered as directors at Companies House.

    Unregistered directors are personally liable for any damages or costs resulting from any successful legal action against them.

    If directors are legally resistered then they are probably claim their legal expenses under any director liability insurance policy. You would be surprised though how many directors skip the legal formalities. Possibly such people do not want to leave a paper-trial, in which case one has to wonder why!

    You can find out whether directors are registered by using the Search facilities provided at Companies House, or through a private company search company such as .... Private Search companies are more expensive, but you do get background information included in your research results. Both sources have their uses.

    We recommend you begin your search at Companies House and then upgrade your enquiries in need-be.

    If your director is not registered at Companies House then you make a note of the date(s) you searched, take a copy of the alphabetical list which omits their name, and a copy of the list of all current directors and their details (it comes as a total package). Then send this to the company insurer with a covering letter, and making sure that you stress the company number, possibly by putting it in the title of an e.mail or the opening paragraph of a letter. The insurers will do the rest!

    Technically if you have a legitimate reason for asking who the insurers are (and being a shareholder or a tenant is a legitimate reason) then the company is obliged to provide you with this information. If they refuse then many smaller companies include copies of their public liability insurance with their annual return to Companies House. Larger companies are more likely to comply initially and to fend you off later!







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