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A few years ago, in one of our first stories, we explained car parking could be a real issue for home owners living on former MoD estates that we manage. Directors and residents at Arborfield Mews Residents Management Company Limited (AMRCL), a handed over company, decided they would try and do something about the limited car
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People make places; that’s at the heart of PREIM’s philosophy. Whether it’s the communities we work with or the team who work here at PREIM, it’s people who make everything ‘tick’. That inspired us to find out a bit more about the people who make it all happen for developments and communities across the UK.
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Community mobilisers are a crucial part of placemaking. Their work helps to empower residents, bridge the gaps between authorities and individuals and create a community spirit that is often crucial to making somewhere feel like home. So, it’s our pleasure to welcome a new community mobiliser to the Crest Nicholson Arborfield Green development near Reading,
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Residents of North Somerset’s Locking Moor estate lead by example in the nation-wide initiative ‘Clean for the Queen’. Clean for the Queen is a national campaign to clean up the streets and communal areas of Britain in-time for the Queen’s 90th birthday which will be celebrated in June this year. Locking Moor Residents’ Company directors
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On behalf of the Garden Villages Preim provides managing agent services to, we draft and publish regular newsletters to keep communities updated about events in their areas, local news about their neighbourhood, competitions and even a trusted traders section to help members of the community to promote and share their own skills. Most newsletters are produced
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Each year staff at Preim raise a respectable amount for a chosen charity. Previous charities have included Peterborough Food Bank and Macmillan Cancer Support. This year the chosen charity was one close to our hearts. Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity, Sands. Sands support anyone affected by the death of a baby, improve the care bereaved
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Preim raise funds in support of Christmas charity, Sands. Each year staff at Preim raise a respectable amount for a chosen charity. Previous charities have included Peterborough Food Bank and Macmillan Cancer Support. This year the chosen charity was one close to our hearts. Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity, Sands. Sands support anyone affected by
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Estates and management company Preim has been instrumental in helping one of the UK’s major house-builders secure a national industry award for Best Community Initiative. Crest Nicholson was named best in the UK for its excellence in achieving ‘a visionary Community Interest Company’ for its Tadpole Garden Village at the Housebuilder Awards in London last
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10 bat roost boxes, 15 songbird nest boxes, two barn owl nest boxes, insect shelters, habitat refuges, breeding and feeding sites for butterflies, birds, amphibians, brown hares, badgers, field mice and other small mammals.…along with 97 traditionally designed homes for people! This is what Tadpole Garden Village is all about – living in harmony with
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Car Parking is often a real issue for home owners living on former MoD estates. In some cases this is down to local authorities being reluctant to allow additional car parking to that already insitu, at the time that Annington Homes redeveloped the estate. Directors and residents at Arborfield Mews Residents Management Company Limited (AMRCL)
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The trees may still be bare, but residents at Monksmoor Park now have a giant bouquet of gerbera daisies to brighten up their lives. This exciting installation has just arrived on ‘the green’ and is the estate’s very first piece of public art. At over 4 metres high the sculpture has been created in stainless
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Now you can see for yourself what the best of town and country living is all about! Crest Nicholson’s new show home is open at Tadpole Gate, the first phase of Tadpole Garden Village, on the rural fringe of North Swindon.  Here, 97 traditionally designed two, three, four and five bedroom homes will be set
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Monksmoor Park is a wonderful new development, but it’s the people who move into it that make our community come alive. And what a great start! Our very first reservation was made by a young couple who have been working hard to buy their first home, and we are delighted that they chose Monksmoor Park as the place to
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As a proud member of ARMA (The Association of Residential Managing Agents), Preim are pleased to announce that we have recently been awarded the ARMA-Q accreditation. ARMA-Q (Q is for quality) was introduced by ARMA to help raise standards and quality of service across the residential management sector. ARMA-Q is a self-regulatory body with an independent
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At Oakham Heights we used our Community Mobiliser to help people moving onto the development to meet and get to know their neighbours. We used a range of communication methods, social media and informal newsletters suitable for a wide age range, to engage with people and to organise both face-to-face and non face-to-face activities. As the
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