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The Annual General Meeting was held on 9 March. Philip Whyte was elected as the Chair and Richard Pook was re-elected as Treasurer. With no nominations, the post of Vice-Chair and Secretary remain vacant.

A recording of the business element of the meeting may be viewed here together with the annual accounts for 2022.

ANNUAL ACCOUNTS

On 8 September Tom Spurrier made a very topical and clear presentation to the Society giving us the clear messages on how energy performance of buildings needs to change. Tom outlined the complexity of this issue as carbon emissions are predominantly embedded in the construction of the buildings rather than the issues of occupancy.

To see a recording of the talk follow this link:

One of the largest open spaces in our part of South West London is under threat.

The AELTC’s planning application, to develop the golf course, continues. A year on, they have added 60 new documents, but the core principles are unchanged.

On Capability Brown’s Grade II* historic Metropolitan Open Land they still plan an 8,000-seat stadium, 38 courts, 10 other buildings and 9kms of roads and paths. The new AELTC park would still be “permissive” rather than “public” and still contains a 30,000sqft maintenance building. All this would still break the 1993 covenants demanded by Merton to protect the golf course and agreed by AELTC on their purchase.

For full details see Home | Save Wimbledon Park where you will find access to a petition.

Following the AGM on 17 March Shiela Allen led a discussion on the future of the Museum and the existing collection currently stored in the old West Hill Library.

A recording of the discussion can be accessed here:

On 13 January Simon Saville presented a well attended talk on the London National Park City project. A link to the talk can be found here

There is also a set of slides which show more statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16K–y3FydGJzMX196WGLvbt5AOCJSGSZ/view?usp=sharing