About Camden Association Of Street Properties (CASP)

Association for Tenants and Leaseholders, serviced by Camden Council. Group linking residents of LBC street properties, to discuss common aims and concerns. This covers issues like repairs, capital works, housing management, etc, and works toward policy and procedural change via Camden Council. Committee meets monthly and communicates with residents through regular borough-wide meetings.

The CASP Management Committee is democratically elected annually at an Annual General Meeting which every LBC street property tenant and resident is invited to attend in order to hear the Chair’s report, receive a statement of accounts (CASP’s budget is held in-house – not grant aided - and its accounts are prepared by Camden Council) and vote in a new committee.

The Committee (made up of volunteers) has organized a number of public meetings where the following items have been discussed. Housing Management (including the introduction of the new tenancy conditions) Camden’s Housing Management Improvement Plan), Rents and Service charges, Camden’s Housing Strategy (including the sell-offs) Anti-Social Behaviour (including Camden’s Review of Anti-Social Behaviour), Capital Works and Repairs to Camden street properties and Camden’s tenant participation strategy as well as a number of other issues affecting council street properties.

The Association has also initiated the idea of holding a pre-meeting housing surgery (attended by Camden’s housing / repairs staff) so that members who are unavailable during the day can attend a surgery and discuss any housing matter in confidence with a Camden Council officer.

In response to concerns raised by council street property tenants and residents about the lack of opportunity to get involved in walkabouts in their districts in order to raise issues of concern, the CASP Committee have worked on a CASP walkabout model and actively encourages any council street property tenant or resident to contact the Association if they would like to get involved in a walkabout in their district (Camden Town, Holborn, Gospel Oak, Hampstead and Kentish Town)

The CASP Committee has also commenced work on its next newsletter and would like to hear from council street property tenants and residents who wish to submit an article on the subject of Camden street properties.

The CASP Committee can be contacted at camdenstreetproperties@yahoo.co.uk. Alternatively, contact Paul Caton (Camden’s TP Team) on 0207 974-2377 and ask for your details to be forwarded to CASP.