Correspondence with Croydon Management

email dated 28 January:

Hallo Corius,

Thank you for your efforts.

The blog is at:
http://www.croydonestate.blogspot.com/
and her are the 25 words:
Blog for owners to debate the penalties to be levied in 2009 on owners who have not commenced building within 3 years of first transfer.

Although the trustees are probably not intending do do so I'm afraid that they are effectively preventing this debate from reaching all the owners.
If you put this on your blog down on the left where all sorts of links are kept, then very few owners, perhaps no one, will actually see it.

Please note that I have not asked for anybody's contact information.
What I am asking is really not intrusive for anybody: All you need to do is that you email all the owners and tell them that a blog has been set up for owners wanting to give their opinions on the penalties issue and you give the blog address. Then they can decide whether to go there or not.

My blog has already received several supportive comments (and telephone calls) and the owners involved are very serious about this issue. You may read the responses for yourself. You will also see that the blog is done in a very responsible and even-handed way.

Maybe I should talk personally to the chairman and I would appreciate if you could make such an arrangement, perhaps when he is visiting Croydon for other matters.

All of the best,
Ivan van der Merwe

----- Original Message -----
From: CoriusV
To: Ivan van der Merwe
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:25 PM

Dear Mr Van Der Merwe

Your request to be allowed access to residents in order to convene an online discussion forum relating to the issue of penalty levies at Croydon Vineyard Estate was discussed by the trustees and the following was resolved.

The Estate and its management cannot get into a situation where it becomes responsible and accountable to requests by individual owners to either divulge contact information on to be given access to contact information of other members of the Association.

The Estate and its management do acknowledge that it has an obligation to allow members the opportunity to interact with one another of topics that individual members find to be of interest.
As Croydon Vineyard Estate has its own blog it was resolved that the way to effectively and fairly deal with your request will be as follows.

You must forward your blog address to the Estate management with a short, 25 word maximum, synopsis of topic of conversation.

Our blog manager will then upload the link and synopsis on the Croydon blog.
Any person interested can then follow the link from the Croydon blog to your discussion blog.

Kind regards

Corius Visser
Manager