4 September update

Hello all

See below our third fortnightly update with an outline of progress on the Greenside development.

Updates from the Construction team

Work on site since the last update includes the following activities:

• Hard landscaping to the area fronting Alton Road.
• Four units in block B are ready for the 2nd de-snag. The lower ground duplex apartments are due to be snagged on Friday 6 September.
• 10 units in Block C have been de-snagged from ground to level 3.
• Witness testing (see Glossary) took place as planned between 28 and 30 August across the development. Calford Seaden will issue a report of actions for Mulalley to address before handover.
• Our third-party fire consultant (OFR) visited site on 20 August to carry out the pre-occupation FRA (Fire Risk Assessment). We’re expecting their report before our next update.
• Planning condition 11 (evidence of the energy strategy as built) has been cleared.

Virgin Media and s278 works update

Virgin Media visited Greenside development on the 23 August to assess the works required. They raised concerns over the potential parking restrictions and road closure the Council may require before they will issue a permit for the works to take place.

This means that Virgin Media works will not begin as planned on 9 Sept.

The timeline relies on the completion of the following sequence of actions:

• Virgin Media to submit a Traffic Management Plan (TMP) to the Council
• Wandsworth Council to approve and issue a permit

Until the Virgin Media works are completed, Mulalley is not able to progress s278 works (see Glossary).

For clarity, Mulalley continue to liaise with Wandsworth Council to obtain the permit for the s278 works they will need after the Virgin Media works are complete. We are working directly with senior management at Virgin Media and with Wandsworth Highways to impress upon them the urgency of this work.

Water ingress

Our EA (Employer’s Agent) provided the following update regarding water ingress:

Mulalley stripped back the entire lower ground floor external paving to fully investigate, although the water ingress was isolated to the corner of block C and manifesting in flat C7.

Mulalley believes that following heavy rain, ponding water was flooding the level access thresholds, bypassing the waterproofing layer. To combat this, they are proposing to reduce the ground level by approximately 150mm and reinstate the paving on raised stands. This will give level access and create a void under the paving that will allow the existing drainage to better handle localised ponding.

This solution needs to be fully designed and signed off with the building warranty provider NHBC, but it looks to be a comprehensive solution.

There has been no fresh evidence of water ingress since the levels were reduced in the units affected at C7 and the party wall of C6.

All remaining lower ground floor flats remain unaffected. The flats have been dehumidified but no reinstatement will occur until the final drainage and waterproofing solution has been agreed.

Blocks A and D progress

Initial snagging is complete on 1st - 4th floors of Block A.

Block D contractor’s snagging is almost complete.

The Council will be given three months' notice to occupy Block A on receipt of the Practical Completion certificate. This will allow mobilisation of the care provider team.

Block B Progress

Our Clerk of Works (CoW) de-snagging inspections and sign off are ongoing for flats on the 1st to 5th floors.

Ground floor plots and duplexes are booked for snagging on 6 Sept.

As of the CoW inspection on 28 August 2024:

• 21 of the 28 flats have been snagged.
• 20 have been de-snagged.
• 11 are complete, awaiting sales sign off.

Communal stairwell and corridors initial snag complete 1st-4th floors.

Block C progress

Our CoW de-snagging inspections and sign off are ongoing for flats on the 1st to 5th floors.

The initial snag of the communal stairwell and corridors, from the ground to 4th floors, is complete.

As of 28 August 2024, our CoW records that:

• 23 of the 26 flats have been snagged.
• 10 have been de-snagged.
• 1 is complete awaiting sales sign off.
• The entrance lobby is ready for decorating.

Updates from the Sales team

Viewings

We understand many customers are keen to view their properties again.

Our priority for now is to allow Mulalley to finish the project without interruption. Once we reach practical completion, we will invite customers to view their homes for a final time before their completion.

Updates re the webpage

Since the last update we have made the following changes to the webpage:

• Added a Glossary of terms (on the right-hand side or below if using a hand-held device).
• Updated the Key milestones to make it clear that two key milestones only apply to Block B (following PC (Practical Completion).
• Updated the FAQs, adding some new ones and making others clearer in response to queries received since the last update.

We were asked whether we alter or amalgamate your questions on the webpage.

This depends on how we receive the questions and which part of the webpage they are published on:

Questions and responses

If you ask a question using the Questions and responses tool (found on the tabs towards the bottom of the webpage), the webpage admins can choose to answer publicly or privately.

If we answer publicly, both the question and our response is published as they were written and can be read by everyone.

If the question contains information that would not be right to share publicly e.g. information about another person, we can choose to answer privately, and the questioner will receive our response by email.

The site is also automatically monitored by the site providers and by AI, so any abusive or otherwise unsuitable language would not reach us.

We may respond by directing you to an existing FAQ or to let you know we will include a more comprehensive response in the next update.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions are found on the right-hand side of the webpage (or below if using a hand-held device). Our aim here is to provide easy to find, public answers to questions that people are asking us individually.

For this tool, we may amalgamate questions received from several people into one question if they are on the same topic. We are not able to include long questions in full as there is a word limit.

FAQs are designed to be a go-to tool throughout the life of the project, so they will be reviewed and updated regularly. For transparency, if we make a meaningful change to an FAQ (other than clarifying something people find unclear), we will explain the change in the fortnightly update. An example might be where the date of an expected activity changes.

Some questions may be removed if they are no longer relevant e.g. if we pass a stage and it is no longer an issue people want to know about. If that happens, we will add an archive section for previous FAQs so that people can look back over what was previously said.

Next update

Our next update will be on 18 September 2024.