This website has been created by Chamomile Court’s directors* to make life easier by signposting Chamomile Court flat owners to our managing agent Carringtons for day-to-day issues and other information needed to keep tenants safe, in a clean, well-maintained environment. Those are our priorities while meeting our legal duties under the Companies Act.

*On behalf of Queens Road, Block F Company

Contractors clean the building every week. We can all help them by leaving the garden in a tidy state and putting our loose items for recycling into the large green containers outside (only loose items, not in bin bags please). Food waste belongs in the appropriate container.

Other household waste items, in black bin bags please, go into the large black bins on both sides of the building. The council collects refuse on Monday from the Gandhi side of the building and Thursday on the Yunus Khan side (with recycling collections on both sides on Wednesday). Please register for an online account with the council's site  Home | London Borough of Waltham Forest to report non-collection on the relevant date for your side of the building.

People with large items for collection should contact Waltham Forest council to book large item collection (if your item is being collected from outside the building please leave a note regarding your item taped to it, showing it comes from your flat and is being taken away by the council under their reference number on a given date - please see the example later on this site). Each of us can report fly-tipping online via Report fly-tipping | London Borough of Waltham Forest

How do I register with Waltham Forest council to receive a landlord’s licence or arrange other services?

You can find out more concerning the council’s mandatory landlords’ licencing scheme via this link Licensing for rented property | London Borough of Waltham Forest 

What standards of behaviour do tenants have to follow?

To be good neighbours we should at least: 

(1) Keep noise levels down, especially between 10.00pm and 10.00am. 

(2) Avoid leaving personal items in corridors, as they can obstruct escape from the building in the event of a fire. Also, keep windows in corridors closed to avoid rain damaging surfaces inside the building. 

(3) Contact the Police if we have concerns for other people’s safety around the building. 

(4) Arrange with the council for large item disposal.

Who is the managing agent and what do they do?

Carringtons Property Management (telephone 01279 701239) is responsible for the day-to-day upkeep of Chamomile Court and practical issues like issuing share certificates. If we have concerns about issues affecting life for residents Carringtons are the people to speak to. Please note Directors of the Queens Road Block F Company are not contact points for day-to-day issues. Please speak to Carringtons about day-to-day matters.

•Waltham Forest Council (General Services)

•Home | London Borough of Waltham Forest

•Waltham Forest Council (Book A Free Large Item Collection)

• Book a large item collection | London Borough of Waltham Forest 

•Carringtons Property Management

•Telephone 01279 701239

•Residents’ Out of Hours Contact Number

•Telephone 0345 600 9053

As mentioned above we are each responsible for the proper disposal of our own large items (including cookers, beds, mattresses, bathroom fittings, furniture and white goods).  Please use the first of the key contact links to work with the council to make your arrangements for a free large item removal. 

Once you have arranged with the council to get your large items removed, please copy the information from the image on the left to create your own label (or click the Get Label Here button) and stick that label to your large item, so your neighbours know when the items will be collected from outside Chamomile Court.

Important fire safety information for residents was circulated in August 2022. In case you haven't seen the information (illustrated in the picture on the left) you can access a pdf copy of the material by clicking the button below.

Please note that work on upgrading the fire safety of the building's four entrances began in 2024. Contractors undertook fire safety inspections on individual flat doors on Tuesday 12th November. Emails on this topic were sent by Carringtons (please see the image below and to the left of this section). Residents were helped to know what was happening and how to book a time for their free visit. NB If a visit could not be made on the day and now needs to be arranged for another time that appointment may incur a cost. The next step affecting fire safety involves repair or replacing individual flat doors. Please cooperate with requests linked to this work, so that you and your household benefit from greater safety in 2025.

Please note that necessary safety work was carried out to the lobby doors and cupboards at Chamomile Court between Wednesday 28 August 2024 and mid-September. Thank you for your patience while those works were completed.

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The most recent Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhood meeting was be held on the evening of Tuesday 10th December, information about what was discussed will follow. The previous meeting took place on 23 September from 1900, the venue was  Leyton Children & Family Centre Hub, 215 Queens Road, Waltham Forest, E17 8PJ. At that time it was clear that local Police had taken several actions to make the ward safer. The following points have particular relevance to the space around Chamomile Court: The Police have carried out mobile foot patrols in Markhouse hot spots with the Violence Reduction; they will run a Speed Gun session (in Boundary RD) and their coordination with the council has  resulted in CCTV being installed in the area of Gandhi Close/Read Court; they have operated recent night shifts whereby up to 11 stops took place, and more night shifts are to follow.

In emergencies that require police to attend call 999.

If you need to report a non-urgent policing issue, please call 101 

Until late July adam.rooney@met.police.uk was our policing officer. From August the contact person in the ward policing team will be Christine, she can be reached via this mailbox nemailbox.sntmarkhouse@met.police.uk  

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Chamomile Court leaseholders may have seen from section 20 notifications, sent by mail, that the internal communal hallways is due to be redecorated in the near future. Many thanks if you wrote to Carringtons at The Lodge, Stadium Way, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5FP, to propose a person who should carry out the work. Please look out for further details relating to this work in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile you can continue to prepare for the work by keeping the corridors free of personal belongings and the walls / window sills free from further marks or damage. Thank you.