Meeting this evening / Waterside Apartments - Complaints, Prices, and retail

Meeting
Final reminder that the management meeting will go ahead this evening at 7pm in the management suite at City Island

Waterside Apartment Contractors Complaints
We have received a lot of complaints recently about the behaviour of the contractors working on the Waterside Apartments site on Gotts Road opposite City Island. The complaints are about:

Litter. Several complaints have been about the litter that is allowed to blow off site into and around City Island, but also that the contractors are eating their lunch and discarding packaging and food over the banks of the river or in to the road.
Sexist Shouting. It seems that the contractors are also trying to live up to the stereotypes of old fashioned builders in shouting sexist and offensive remarks at people walking along Gotts Road.

CIRG have emailed the site manager several times but have yet to receive a reply. Today, we have also emailed the council outlining the complaints we have received so far. If you have a complaint to make about the contractors, please email CIRG and Elaine Saul, who is our Environmental Health, Neighbourhoods and Services contact at the council at Elaine.Saul@leeds.gov.uk

Waterside Apartments
A bit of news about the Waterside apartments

Prices. The prices seem to be about the same as the price for apartments bought off plan in City Island. Which means none of us will have made a lot of money on our purchases, but at least the prices have not been set so that they are much cheaper than City Island apartments which would have certainly lost us money. Example prices:

· 1 Bed / 1 Bath / 500 sq ft £134,000
· 2 Bed / 2 Bath / 750 sq ft £190,000
· Duplex 2 Bed / 2 Bath / 800 sq ft £210,000
· Parking £17,500

Retail. There is a rumour that there may be a retail development as part of the completion of Waterside in the form of a Tesco Lite. We don’t know if this is a new development in Waterside, or a continuation of the rumour that the sales office part of the management suite will be made in to a shop.

Waterside Apartments / Electricity Over Consumption / Volunteer

Waterside Apartments
Are what we used to call City Island II. They have a website http://watersideleeds.com/ but as yet no pricing information. I have emailed over a week ago requesting pricing information, but they haven’t bothered replying to me. Funny that. Anyway, keep an eye on the website, as to a large extent how Mayfair decide to price these apartments will have a significant impact on the value of apartments in City Island.

Electricity Over Consumption
I know of at least three cases of apartments in City Island using ridiculous amounts of electricity. My own apartment is one of them. Currently my bill is approaching £2000, even though I have been paying £212 a month for over a year, the bill keeps on going up. If anyone else is having this issue, let us know and maybe we can all get together to try and petition the energy companies more effectively, as so far they have been useless. I have had to open a formal complaint, and make complaint to Energy Watch.

Volunteer -- Monks Bridge
Do we have any volunteers to take over the relationship with the site manager of Monks Bridge for and on behalf of City Island Residents Group? I just don’t have the time to deal with this one. There seems to be some discrepancies in start times of noisy work on the site at the moment.