You are invited to attend the Leat Close Management Association Limited Annual General Meeting on Thursday 22nd February 2024, 7.30pm at The Parish Hall, Sawbridgeworth. This can be found in the grounds of Great St Marys Church.
Your attendance at the AGM is important and is your opportunity to air any views and concerns that you may have. We have vacancies on the committee and would love to welcome you to the team. We hold a Committee meeting every 3 months for about an hour in the evening. Please can you spare some time to contribute to the running of the Estate.
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 22nd February 2024.
During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been able to continue to carry out work on the estate with tree trimming, grass cutting and the painting schedule was completed. Committee meetings have had to take place via Zoom. We have also completed the new Bin Store 4 area on the private road and tree trimming is due to take place shortly along the full length of the private road.
Recycling and Bin Waste
We have seen an increase in the misuse of the bin stores and contamination of the recycling bins. The bin stores are for household waste and recycling only. Please never leave any items of waste on the ground or next to the bins as the Council Collection will NOT collect this. You MUST take larger items to the local recycling centre.
Above photo: The New Bin Store 4 on the private road
Important Rules when using the Bins
The PAPER recycling bins should only contain paper and magazines, NOT cardboard or plastic bags!
The MIXED recycling bins should only contain recyclable waste which is specified on the notice displayed on the front of the bin. You should NOT put polystyrene, plastic bags, plastic film wrap, crisp packets etc into the mixed recycling bins as this contaminates it. Please compact cardboard boxes. Please leave the bin area in a clean and tidy condition.
We are aware of the main offenders of this as they are leaving address labels on the items they leave in the incorrect bins. Unfortunately if this continues we will be forced to pass these details on to East Herts Council as they have previously complained to us about the regular contamination issues they encounter.Rotary Washing Line Users – Please remember to collapse your rotary lines and put a cover on it when not in use to help keep the estate looking tidy.
What you can put in the blue mixed recycling bins:
Aerosol cans
Aluminium foil
Biscuit tins
Butter tubs
Cardboard (no sticky tape or labels)
Cartons
Cereal boxes
Drink cans
Egg cartons – cardboard
Egg cartons – plastic
Foil
Food tins
Fruit punnets
Glass – bottles and jars
Ice-cream containers
Jars
Kitchen roll tubes
Margarine tubs
Microwave meal trays
Milk bottles – plastic
Plastic bottles – put the lids in separately
Plastic plant/flower pots
Plastic sweet containers/tubs
Plastic food trays
Tetra Packs
Tin Foil
Toilet roll tubes
Toothpaste tubes
Washing powder boxes
Yoghurt pots
What you can put in your paper recycling:
Please only put the following items in the blue paper recycling bins:
Brochures
Catalogues
Directories
Envelopes – white only (please remove plastic windows)
Junk mail
Magazines/ Newspapers
Shredded paper
Yellow Pages
What you should NOT put in any of the blue bins:
Caddy liners without the seedling logo
Cardboard with sticky tape/labels
Carpet
Cat Litter
Household waste
Plant post and planters
Polystyrene
Soft Plastics such as carrier bags
Soil
Turf
*Please note that you shouldn’t put soft plastic in your blue lidded bin, this should be placed in your black bin.*
Some examples of soft plastic include:
all plastic carrier bags from supermarkets and shops
black bags and plastic liners
food bags e.g. cereal packets, vegetable/fruit/bread bags etc
film plastic packaging on food punnets and meat trays
cling film/shrink wrap
film wrap on magazines, postal packaging etc
Contact Us
If you would like to contact us about any issues mentioned above or for any other reason, please email us using: help@leatclose.org.uk and to prevent emails from me being accidentally filtered into your Junk Mail folder please add this email to your Safe Senders list.
A quick message to all residents in Blocks 1 & 2 – Flat numbers: [15-16], [11-12-13-14] (see map) that building work on the construction of the new bin area (bin store 4), will be taking place from Monday 13th July 2020 (weather permitting) as promised. The new location is more accessible to residents and also the bin collectors.
We will cone off a couple of parking spaces for materials etc the weekend before. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this.
Please respect social distancing with all contractors as they need to stay fit and healthy to continue to work.
Additional Update
The drainage health check has been completed and the report has highlighted a few areas which need some urgent attention to prevent expensive damage occurring and we are prioritising this within the maintenance plan budget.
Many thanks, Leat Close Management Association Ltd
The incidents took place in High Wych and Falconers Park.
Please be advised that we have seen a slight increase in vehicle crime over the last few days. Please remove all valubles from your vehicles and tools if possible.
Off road motor bikes and Mini Moto’s
We had an increase in calls regarding issues of Anti Social Behaviour around the use of motor bikes and mini moto’s.
Locations  mentioned are the back of The Crest towards Rivers Hospital and also Bullfields. Please let us know who they are as we would love to issue them with a Section 59.
Police Contact Advice
Telephone 999 in an emergency where there is a danger to life or a crime is in progress. Telephone 101 for non-emergencies where police attendance is required, to report a crime or to report any other incidents. Calls to 101 have a fixed cost of 15p per call. Alternatively, visit www.herts.police.uk/contact to report a non-emergency crime online or chat to a police operator live via our web chat service. If you are calling about the above, please tell us that you are responding to a message from OWL Neighbourhood Watch.
