Residents of Maida Vale have much to gain from belonging to this society whose remit is to interface with Westminster Council and to act as a forum and a lobbying body on behalf of residents in Maida Vale for local issues.

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In about 1980, the Church Commissioners decided to sell off-parts of the North Paddington Estate, which had belonged to the Church of England for over one hundred years.  The area they were abandoning was a lovely, unimproved haven of Victorian architecture, with communal gardens to give the residents the feeling of being in the country and having their own private space.

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To continue to preserve some of this after they had sold freeholds in the area, the Commissioners drew up complex legal arrangements based on Rentcharge Deeds.  The holder of a Rentcharge has property rights over any and every freehold owner of property, which is the subject to that Rentcharge.  Specific rights and duties are spelt out in a Deed, and this forms a contract between the holder of the Rentcharge, the freeholders of the affected properties and, in this area, between those freeholders themselves.

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Read a lovely blog post of our garden written by the organisers of the Open Garden Square Weekend.