Cladding - important notice for leaseholders who let out their flat/use for business purposes

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Cladding - important notice for leaseholders who let out their flat/use for business purposes

You will shortly be receiving a letter from Parkgate Aspen attaching a form that must be completed and part of Canary Riverside’s application for Government funding to help cover the cost of cladding remediation works. Failure to return the form could detrimentally affect our eligibility for funds from the Building Safety Fund and increase costs funded through the service charge. Thanks for your cooperation.

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Coronavirus update

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Residents will be aware that England has entered into a new period of lockdown restrictions, further details of which can be found here.

Please check our coronavirus page for information on what’s’ open in Canary Wharf and how to access support if you are shielding/quarantining.

Parkgate Aspen continue to ensure estate services continue to be provided to their clients, and their latest update letter to clients can be found here.

We hope you continue to stay safe and well during these challenging times.

Lift outages at the weekend

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Many residents encountered lift outages at the weekend which were in response to the fire alarm being activated.

We are advised by Parkgate Aspen that the fire alarm was trigged due to a sprinkler pump issue. The security team tried to reset the system but were unable to restore services, which meant lifts (and gas supplies) remained temporarily out of service. Subsequently a strong smell of gas was reported in Berkeley Tower, and the Estate Manager contacted Cadent/DMG/ADT to investigate. All services were fully restored by 9pm, and Parkgate Aspen have apologised for any inconvenience the outages caused to residents.

Monitoring electricity usage (updated 17th September 2020)

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The use of an energy monitor can help residents monitor their electricity consumption and see how much kW an appliance uses when in operation. Geo produces two types of energy monitor . The Geo Minim LED energy monitor users a sensor that is fitted over the pulse light (red flashing light on your meter(s) to count the pulses and register usage. The CT-clip sensor version reads the electrical current going through the live cable(s) of the electricity meter. There is also an Owl monitor that uses clip-sensors and has the advantage of a battery-operated display.

The monitors’ wireless transmitter has a range of up to 30m so the display unit can be positioned where convenient.

The display tracks daily and weekly usage, holding one month’s history (today./yesterday, this week/last week, this month/last month). It provides you with similar information as a ‘smart meter’.

The monitor enables you to see the ‘background usage’ - ie, when you don’t have any electrical appliances running other than ‘always-on’ items including fridge/freezer, modem, devices on stand-by (sky box, printer etc) and the trace heating. Once you know the typical ‘background’ usage you can then monitor the increase in consumption caused by turning on appliances etc and checking the display.

If you have two meter readings on your electricity bill (R1 and R4 - please see the electricity page for further information) you will need to:

  • purchase an additional clamp sensor for the clamp-sensor models. The clamps need to be installed on the ‘live’ cables in the fuse box. It can be trial and error locating the two relevant cables - you need to switch on R1 appliances (eg, an oven) and R4 appliances (eg, FCU in heating mode) and check that the display.

  • Buy two Geo Minim LED monitors and place the LED sensors over the LED pulse light on the main and slave meters. Unfortunately each monitor can only have one LED input. We recommend using blu-tack or tape to attach the sensor as the supplied sticker tends to fall off over time. If you install just one LED sensor you will either be monitoring R1 usage or R4, and not total usage.

*Please note: energy monitors are not designed to replace your supply meter, which are highly accurate, but they provide a good guide of your real-time energy consumption.

Noisy weekend roadworks update: continuing on the w/e of 8th & 9th August

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Noisy weekend roadworks update: continuing on the w/e of 8th & 9th August

Canary Wharf Group has advised that it will be undertaking noisy road works over the next two weekends. The details of the works on the ‘north ramp’ (facing the Hotel, Eaton House/Circus and Berkeley Tower) can be found below. The works included the breaking out of concrete, and CWG will be using acoustic noise reducing fence panels to try and minimise the noise disturbance to residents.

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Noisy weekend roadworks 18/19 and 25/26 July

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Noisy weekend roadworks 18/19 and 25/26 July

Canary Wharf Group has advised that it will be undertaking noisy road works over the next two weekends. The details of the works on the ‘north ramp’ (facing the Hotel, Eaton House/Circus and Berkeley Tower) can be found below. The works included the breaking out of concrete, and CWG will be using acoustic noise reducing fence panels to try and minimise the noise disturbance to residents.

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New cycle lanes - noisy road works

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Canary Wharf Group are in the process of installing new cycle lanes designed to cater for an anticipated increase in the volume of cyclists as people return to work after lockdown. The requirement for the new lanes has come from the Mayor of London, and the works are therefore of a high priority.

CWG has apologised for not having notified residents in advance of them commencing yesterday evening, and for the late-running last night. The works were timed to coincide with a road closure that was already in place. The cycle path works are continuing today and CWG advise that they hope the noisy part of the works will be finished by 5pm.