Elsea Park Community Trust (The Trust) is a resident led, not-for-profit organisation, which was established under a Section 106 (S.106) Planning Agreement. The obligations of The Trust are to manage, maintain and enhance the vast public open space and community facilities within Elsea Park.
The overarching objective of The Trust is to ensure that Elsea Park is a good place to live through the delivery of our Mission and Vision, and upholding our Values.
The Community Centre and several of the public open spaces and play areas that lay within the developed area of Elsea Park have already been legally transferred to The Trust.
In time, all public open spaces will be similarly transferred such that The Trust will eventually own, control and manage all the public open spaces, ponds, drainage structures and buildings thereon.
The Trust currently owns and maintains:
To improve the appearance of the development, and as an interim measure, The Trust maintains some of the areas that have not yet been handed over, the cost of this maintenance being "billed back" to the developer. There are, however, some areas on Elsea Park that are not in a suitable condition to maintain under these interim arrangements.
The Trust employs a Trust Manager and a Finance and Administration Officer, supported by staff to run and maintain The Centre.
Our grounds team take care of our conservation areas and inspects and maintains nine of the equipped play areas. They are also responsible for the routine inspection and first line maintenance of watercourses and drainage structures located on land that is owned by The Trust. The grounds team manages water levels in the habitat ponds on Elsea Meadows, mitigating the flood risk whilst conserving the aquatic habitat as much as possible.
The Grounds Team are also responsible for the general maintenance of The Centre and carrying out repairs to structures (benches, fencing etc) across the development. They also empty the litter bins that we have deployed across Elsea Park.
Routine Grounds Maintenance (including grass cutting, hedge trimming, weeding and the like) is largely undertaken by our own staff, though we occasionally use external contractors for some of the major works.
The Trust will only accept the legal transfer of areas that have been brought up to a suitable standard by the developer. Until that legal transfer takes place, the developer remains wholly responsible for such areas.
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