Locksmeade Owners Ltd

Welcome to our new website. 

It has been updated and should be easier to navigate. Removed are several features relating to registration and communication that have now been superseeded by the likes of WhatsApp and other means. 

What remains is loads of information about the company including downloadable forms which will be useful to those looking to either move off or onto the development.  Still here, are submitted accounts, budgets and AGM minutes from the last 6 years to give newcomers (and their solicitors) confidence that the company is well run and very much alive. In addition, there are maps of the development: the plots, the fences, the drains and who owns what.

LATEST NEWS:

• The  AGM for this year (2025) was held on Monday 30th April, at Ham Christian Centre, Lock Road at 8pm.

• The minutes of this (when issued) and previous AGMs are posted on this site for inspection or download: Recent AGM Minutes

• This year’s Summer Tea Party will be held on Sunday 17th August at 4pm on the edge of Ham Lands at the end of Tideway Close.

• The Map of the Development, which is downloadable, now has the visitor parking spaces highlighted: Locksmeade Development Map

• Nelson Nunes, who used to work with Caroline, has taken over last year as our gardener, much to the delight of all those who knew him. Welcome back Nelson. He is making good progress catching up with the overgrown nature of many of the hedges and shrubs. We aim to reduce the mass of vegitation to make the development easier to maintain without losing the beauty and privacy the shrubs offer.

• We’ve done, at very little cost, a massive renovation of the ex-playground area between Headway and Fisherman. Overgrown stuff removed, a new boarder opened up in the large area of concrete and 4 fruit tree planted. We plan to do a little more to improve the privacy from Beaufort Court, but we’ve made a start. Go and take a look at the progress so far. A ‘pub’ bench has also been installed in this area for picnics and get togethers. Please take a look and use the area, which now looks much improved.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY:

The 88 houses that make up the Locksmeade Development were sold by Ferndale Homes from 1981-1983. They range from 1 to 4 bedroom houses in a variety of styles. The builder's brochure Ferndale Homes Original Brochure is displayed on a linked page. The layout of the development is complicated, comprising as it does of a mixture of privately owned, council adopted and ‘common’ areas which were intended to be maintained by us all through a company – yes, you’ve guessed it, Locksmeade Owners Limited.

WHAT THE COMPANY IS THERE FOR:

The company, which was originally called the Locksmeade Management Company Limited, was set up in 1981 by Ferndale Homes to look after and maintain the areas on the development not privately owned or adopted by the council; for want of a better description ‘the common areas’. These comprise mainly of shared concrete driveways, boundary fences, along with shrubbed and grassed boarders. In 2018 the name was changed to Locksmeade Owners Ltd (LOL) to more accurately reflect what the company is there fore and who runs it. The LOL, which is a limited company, currently has two directors and an elected committee. Each property has a one share stake in the company, but the company itself doesn’t hold any share capital. The company's Memorandum of Association: LMC (now LOL) Memorandum of Association is also on this website and available for download.

E-MAIL CONTACT

raf.szyman@gmail.com (for more information)

Rafal is our accountant and looks after the transfer of property ownership and deals with solicitor enquiries.