The Village Association (VA) is increasingly concerned that some of the CBCT (Caterham Barracks Community Trust) properties are urgently in need of repair. We are keen to understand their short and medium term maintenance plan to ensure all the various issues are fixed and don’t deteriorate any further.

With residents and businesses annually paying CBCT nearly £30,000 towards the upkeep of their properties the VA has written to CBCT outlining concerns, which includes:

• Car park between the Arc and the NAAFI building which the VA considers to be in an unsafe condition. The fix of concreting over areas of the car park is considered an unsightly and we suspect non-compliant fix given it is within the conservation area.

• Broken guttering and downpipes on the Arc and NAAFI as well as blocked drains at both buildings.

• Broken windows trims, the porch roof and paintwork at the NAAFI and to a lesser extent the Arc and broken signage at the Officers Mess.

• We continue to ask, since 2016, for sight of the warranted treatment plan for the Japanese Knotweed on the Rifle Range.

The VA’s concern is the longer-term impact on the development of a failure to properly maintain these assets. It is also the VA’s understanding that CBCT have refinanced their circa £1m debt, so we have sought assurances that their financial planning includes a full and ongoing maintenance plan of all their assets, including assurances that the annual contribution by the residents and businesses’ will be spent on maintenance as stipulated.