Posts by: Stuart Tullah

From 2016 the board of directors intends to issue a quarterly e.mail newsletter. This was announced in the letter that accompanied the annual road frontage charge demand. Residents should notify the Secretary if they wish to receive this newsletter and provide a current e.mail address. The newsletters will also be uploaded to fouroaksestate.wpengine.com.

The volume and speed of traffic, especially during the morning rush hour, continues to concern many residents and experimental methods of traffic calming have been trialled on Hartopp Road and Wentworth Road where the problem is greatest. A ‘carriageway narrowing’ peninsula was installed in Hartopp Road and a 20 mph rated rubber speed bump was …

The road frontage charge rate for year 2015/16 (1st October 2015 to 30th September 2016) has been set at £16.70 per yard frontage. Demands were issued on 28th September and in the usual way there is a 5% discount for settlement by 31st October.

New signage is being erected at the Four Oaks Road entry points to Hartopp Road, Luttrell Road, Ladywood Road and Wentworth Road. There will be a sign on either side of each junction saying ‘NO ACCESS – Residents Only’. This is a strand of the traffic mitigation works which will include a new rubber speed …

Works under the Footpath & Verge Improvement Plan continue across the Estate and shortly the exercise of re-covering the footpaths will commence. The footpaths will be covered with Cotswold Path Stone which is an attractive stone and ideal for footpaths.

The board of directors is planning to install new traffic calming and reduction measures in response to complaints from residents about the growth and speed of traffic on the Estate at large, and on Hartopp Road in particular. In an attempt to mitigate this problem two carriageway narrowing peninsulas will be installed in the ‘upper’ …

The Chairman sent a letter to all residents on 22nd June as part of the strategic review. The letter was headed ‘The Future of Four Oaks Estate’ and responses to this letter are important as part of the review and planning process. Residents are encouraged to respond to the Secretary if they have not yet …

The works at Four Oaks railway station to construct a new two level car park are now underway and Centro estimates that the works will be completed around mid December.

Over the next few weeks all signs across the Estate will be cleaned. This includes road name signs, Four Oaks Estate signs, speed bump warning signs and parking restriction signs.

It has recently been announced that the lead contractor appointed by Centro to construct the new two level car park at Four Oaks railway station has gone into liquidation. This will delay the project and at this point no new timescale is clear. The Estate is maintaining contact with Centro and when further information is …