2.5% rent rise for 2014/15  to £637.55 inc VAT -- no discount for inclement weather -- notification letter includes suggestion "to give up your tenancy".."if you're not sure you want your chalet" as "a small number of chalets are not well used."

NEW YEAR 2014 - old view

Karma bRIGHTON BATHING PAVILION

I went to the unveiling -- Liam Russell (the planning consultant) explained there were no plans to relocate the chalets - only the fishing lockers would have to be moved (again!) -- there would possibly be some "planning gain" which could be used to tart-up the chalets -- it seems more of the beach would be appropriated as the kinks in the Volks Railway are ironed out to straighten the tracks to parallel  the road ......

there will  be a further exhibition (St George's Church?) -- he assured me the model would include the chalets next time.......

The seafront officers also explained that the wording in the Strategy document was a bit misleading viz-a-vis the chalets: there were no plans to "relocate" them...........

KARMA stuff

see friday's argus
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/business/10261106.VIDEO____5m_spa_vision_unveiled_for_Brighton_seafront/

OLD PIC 1987

Karma Royal Group build next door

 Council will be building on the old Peter Pan Play Ground, via an outside developer: See details below:

 Peter Pan leisure site, Madeira Drive - Development proposal
Date of Meeting: 21st June 2012 Hove Town Hall

http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/Published/C00000705/M00004274/AI00027659/$PeterPanLeisureSiteDevelopmentProposaFinalFinal.doc.pdf

Set-up association agreed

Over half of the chalet tenants responded to the short-notice call to set-up an association of chalet tenants -
6 tenants met in the pub (apologies from 8)  and signed-up to the constitution (see last post below), thus leading to an first AGM in the summer to elect committee and officers ect --
main reason to set-up was formalising the representative nature the chalet tenants as a body to facilitate communication with the Council as landlord -- note that the association is not intended to take-over the individual tenant's right to communicate directly with the Council......
agreed to exchange e-mail addresses and set-up a wordpress site, administered by roy (chalet 8) in the first instance -- (roy will thus run-down this current blog-site, on which you are now reading...) --
roy will advise the Council as landlord of this set-up and ask the Council to send letters to this effect to all tenants --
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more to follow, including nice pictures of blue-bells on the beach..........