On Thursday the 10th of December Stephanie Henderson-Brown (RP Director) and Sean Chappell (Senior Construction Manager, St George) held one of their regular liaison meetings – the aim of which is for Regatta Point to raise any issues with the development next door and for St George’s to keep us abreast with progress.

Apologises for Absence: Malcolm Wood (Land Director, St George), Mo Bowyer (RP resident).

The following are highlights of the meeting:

• The opening up of the main archway to public use will be delayed until the end of January/mid February 2016. This is in order to minimise the risk of mixing heavy good delivery, cars and pedestrians in that area.
• Plans are being finalised to provide a cycle lane starting outside St George’s and when the works are carried out alternative pathways for pedestrians will be available.
• There are many dying climbing plants still overhanging the RP east wall and trellises. These dead plants will be removed and the missing small trellises on the top of the wall will be replaced by St George’s. Sean Chappell will contact the RP Building manager Oscar Rivera (his working hours are between 8am and 4pm) the week beginning the 14^th of December to allow access to Kingston Gardeners to carry out this work.
• The public footpath between the St George’s development and Regatta Point from the river to the Regatta Point car park entrance gate only will be opened in February 2016. Security is to be maintained on by the implementation of gates which will lock automatically at dusk and reopen at dawn on a daily basis. The boat owners will be issued with fobs to gain access during night time hours.
• There are now approximately 5 units left to sell and the marketing suite building will be demolished over the next few months. A new marketing suite will be installed in the St George’s ellipse shaped building by the riverside.
• The completion of the rest of the roadside site is expected to be spring/summer 2016, but the roadside hoarding which partly obscures the vision of car drivers entering and leaving regatta Point will not be removed until the end of the build.
• Most of the ground floor commercial units will be for office use and one of the units is under offer from a production company and there will be two retail units. There is also a possibility that the unit next to Hammonds will become a Fullers Pizza and Cider restaurant
• St George’s will be closing their site from the 24^th of December over the Christmas period to reopen on the 4^th of January. They wish us to have a very peaceful Christmas!

Next meeting Thursday 11th February 2016 08:30am.