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    • Community Notice Board
      • Lawson Estate TRA meetings
      • Jubilee Party 4th June 2022
      • Women only Zumba Classes
      • Burwash House; Door Entry Renewal – Residents Consultation Meeting @ 5.30pm to 6pm – 26th May 2022
      • Symington House – Lift Renewal – “Resident Consultation” Update
      • Kipling TRA May Meeting
      • Bogus callers
      • Energy Advice for Over 50’s
      • Continuation Ballot Results
      • Events
        • Leathermarket Seniors Project
      • Southwark Cash First
      • JMB Directors
      • Covid-19 Information
        • Covid-19 – Leathermarket JMB Update
        • Repairs & Cleaning on JMB Estates
        • How to make Rent & Service Charges Payments
        • Information for Those Facing Financial Hardship
        • Volunteer Opportunities
        • Useful Information
        • Changes to parking restrictions on JMB estates during Covid-19 Lockdown
      • JMB Staff Structure
        • JMB Staff Structure
        • Resident Services Team
        • Property Services Team
    • JMB news
    • Our homes
    • Live on a JMB Estate
  • Residents
    • Apply for parking permit
    • Your Resident Services Officer
    • Safety rules and emergency
    • Paying your rent
    • DIY in your home
    • Contents insurance
    • My estate
  • Repairs & Major Works
    • Simla House – Lift Renewal – “Resident Consultation” Update
    • Symington House Tender Pack
    • Simla & Burwash Door Entry System
    • Whites Grounds – Roof Repairs & External Decorations 2021
      • Whites Grounds Major Works – Block Completion Inspection
      • Contractor Introduction – Durkan
      • White Grounds Estate Post Contract Meeting on 22nd & 27th July
    • Repairs to your home
    • JMB Repair changes
    • Book Repairs
  • Home ownership
    • Make a payment
    • Major Works Payment Plan
      • Major works payment options
      • Major works payment explained
    • Leasehold publications and minutes
    • Service Charge Complaint process
    • Homeowner Gas Servicing
  • Get involved
    • Leathermarket JMB AGM 2021
      • Motion to Leathermarket JMB AGM on 3 November 2021
      • Leathermarket JMB Audited Accounts 2020/21
      • AGM 2020 Minutes
      • AGM 2021 presentation
    • Have your say/ Get involved
      • Estate Inspections
    • Leathermarket JMB Membership Form
    • Sub Group Meetings
      • Sub Group Meetings 2022
      • Leathermarket Homeowners Subcommitee
      • Community Participation Sub Committee Meeting Notes 15.07.2021
  • Publications
    • Leathermarket JMB Audited Accounts 2020/21
    • 2019/2020 Annual Report
    • JMB Final Account March 2020
    • JMB Management Agreement
    • Constitution of Leathermarket JMB
    • JMB Business Plan
    • JMB Complaints Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Leathermarket JMB Equalities Policy
    • Newsletters
      • Lawson Estate Newsletter
    • Worrying about money leaflet

Who are Leathermarket JMB?

Leathermarket JMB is the organisation which runs your estate, managed by the people who live in your area.

Leathemarket JMB is Southwark’s largest resident-managed housing organisation. managing 1500 homes in Borough and Bermondsey between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. A full list of the addresses that the JMB cover can be found on the Which TRA page, together with details of the tenants and residents association that covers that area.

Residents are the reason we are here.

Our vision is

To provide excellent housing services for our residents, better than those provided by other organisations with similar resources

To do this we aim to

To spend no more than we earn over a five year period

To have high resident satisfaction rates compared to other local landlords

To encourage residents to get involved in managing the JMB

To be a good employer for our staff

To win the JMB continuation ballot every 5 years. (every five years all the residents living on the JMB Estates are asked if they want the JMB to continue to manage their homes)

Services

what do we deliver for residents?

Rent Collection

We collect rent from tenants. We also give advice to tenants in difficulties. However, if this fails we must take tenants to court to recover lost rent.

Repairs

We deliver a repairs and maintenance service including:

Weekday repairs for tenants

Estate maintenance

Empty property repairs

A 24-hour, seven day-a-week, emergency repairs service

Customer Services

Our customer services team carries out a wide range of duties including:

Providing housing advice

Investigating and dealing with neighbour nuisance and antisocial behaviour

Carrying out tenancy checks to catch unauthorised residents

Helping to resolve neighbour disputes

Attending Tenants & Residents Association meetings

Taking prospective tenants to view properties and signing up new tenants

Dealing with parking issues

Providing a visible presence on the estates

Improvement Works

The JMB manages major improvement works within the budget we are given by Southwark Council.

Cleaning

Leathermarket JMB estates are cleaned on weekdays (except for bank holidays) by JMB cleaners. Health and safety matters can be attended to on weekends (up to 4pm on Sundays) by calling the out of hours service on the JMB’s main phone number. 

Bulk rubbish

We will collect your bulk rubbish for free by appointment during the week.
Please telephone 020 7450 8000 or call in the office to book a removal.

Gardening

Leathermarket JMB employs two experienced gardeners to look after our estates.

History of the JMB

1994

Setting up the JMB

In 1994 the Tenants on the Leathermarket Neighbourhood Forum (a group set up to relate to the neighbourhood council housing office) thought that the service they received from the council -particularly repairs and cleaning – could be done much better.

The Neighbourhood forum thought that things needed to be done more locally where local residents could make their own decisions.

The neighbouring Tabard Estate had started looking about becoming locally managed in 1991 and had split from the rest of the Leathermarket Area.

Setting up a TMO

So in 1994, a steering group of 10 people from the Neighbourhood Forum started the process for looking at residents taking over the running of the Leathermarket homes by setting up a TMO (a Tenant-Managed Organisation, under the Goverment’s ‘Right to Manage’ legislation).

An indicative ballot of Leathermarket area residents was held – the vast majority of residents were in favour of setting up a TMO.

This was followed by an 18-month process of agreeing a management agreement – the legal agreement with Southwark Council that would allow residents to independently-manage their services.

1996

Becoming a TMO

Early 1996 was the formal ballot of tenants on the formation of the Leathermarket Joint Management Board. The vast majority of Leathermarket residents voted and there was a huge majority of residents in favour of becoming a TMO.

Leathermarket JMB was born

On 1 April 1996 Leathermarket JMB was born. The first big change is to employ JMB’s own cleaners. JMB also started to employ ‘handy-people’ to do minor repairs.

Over the years the JMB’s repair team has grown in skill and ability – growing from being able to carry out 20% of jobs on the estates to now being able to carry out almost all the types of repairs needed.

2001

First continuation ballot

In 2001 the first JMB continuation ballot was held (every five years, residents have to vote to say whether they want the JMB to continue to manage the estates, rather than going back to having Southwark Council directly manage the estates).

Also in the early 2000s a separate organisation, Leathermarket RSO (Resident Services Organisation) was set to provide local employment as part of a Government pilot.

The RSO took over the gardening services for the JMB and provided the weekend cleaning service.

2006

Second continuation ballot

In September 2006 the JMB’s second continuation ballot was held with more than four out of five residents voting for the JMB to keep providing housing services for the Leathermarket area.

2011

Third continuation ballot

In September 2011 the JMB’s third continuation ballot was held. The ballot demonstrated the largest mandate for the continuation of the JMB in its history. Approximately 72% of tenants took part in the ballot and 93% voted in favour of retaining the JMB as managers.

2013

Self Financing

In April the JMB became the first tenant managed organisation in the country to become self financing. This means the organisation is able to retain all rent and service charges and thereby model a business plan over 30 years to deliver continuing improvements. In effect this was a huge vote of trust in the JMB, not only by the local authority but also by central government in the form of the Department of Communities and Local Government.

2014

New build programme

The JMB commences discussions with residents of the Lawson Estate and Southwark Council on the development of new homes on the former Joseph Lancaster Nursery site.

2015

Building homes at Kipling Estate

In June the Leathermarket CBS submits a planning application for new homes on the Kipling Estate. The plans consist of 27 new genuinely affordable homes on the former garage site. The homes are designed in accordance with lifetime homes standards and the London housing design guide. Importantly the properties will be low maintenance and low cost for residents to run. The future residents and Kipling Estate residents have shaped the design of the new homes from the very beginning.

Leathermarket JMB

Southwark's largest resident-managed housing organisation, running 1500 homes between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, Leathermarket JMB is the organisation which runs your estate, managed by the people who live in your area.

Residents are the reason we are here.

Contact details

Call us - 020 7450 8000

Email us
enquiries@leathermarketjmb.org.uk

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  • About Us
    • Working for us
    • Contact JMB
    • Community Notice Board
      • Lawson Estate TRA meetings
      • Jubilee Party 4th June 2022
      • Women only Zumba Classes
      • Burwash House; Door Entry Renewal – Residents Consultation Meeting @ 5.30pm to 6pm – 26th May 2022
      • Symington House – Lift Renewal – “Resident Consultation” Update
      • Kipling TRA May Meeting
      • Bogus callers
      • Energy Advice for Over 50’s
      • Continuation Ballot Results
      • Events
        • Leathermarket Seniors Project
      • Southwark Cash First
      • JMB Directors
      • Covid-19 Information
        • Covid-19 – Leathermarket JMB Update
        • Repairs & Cleaning on JMB Estates
        • How to make Rent & Service Charges Payments
        • Information for Those Facing Financial Hardship
        • Volunteer Opportunities
        • Useful Information
        • Changes to parking restrictions on JMB estates during Covid-19 Lockdown
      • JMB Staff Structure
        • JMB Staff Structure
        • Resident Services Team
        • Property Services Team
    • JMB news
    • Our homes
    • Live on a JMB Estate
  • Residents
    • Apply for parking permit
    • Your Resident Services Officer
    • Safety rules and emergency
    • Paying your rent
    • DIY in your home
    • Contents insurance
    • My estate
  • Repairs & Major Works
    • Simla House – Lift Renewal – “Resident Consultation” Update
    • Symington House Tender Pack
    • Simla & Burwash Door Entry System
    • Whites Grounds – Roof Repairs & External Decorations 2021
      • Whites Grounds Major Works – Block Completion Inspection
      • Contractor Introduction – Durkan
      • White Grounds Estate Post Contract Meeting on 22nd & 27th July
    • Repairs to your home
    • JMB Repair changes
    • Book Repairs
  • Home ownership
    • Make a payment
    • Major Works Payment Plan
      • Major works payment options
      • Major works payment explained
    • Leasehold publications and minutes
    • Service Charge Complaint process
    • Homeowner Gas Servicing
  • Get involved
    • Leathermarket JMB AGM 2021
      • Motion to Leathermarket JMB AGM on 3 November 2021
      • Leathermarket JMB Audited Accounts 2020/21
      • AGM 2020 Minutes
      • AGM 2021 presentation
    • Have your say/ Get involved
      • Estate Inspections
    • Leathermarket JMB Membership Form
    • Sub Group Meetings
      • Sub Group Meetings 2022
      • Leathermarket Homeowners Subcommitee
      • Community Participation Sub Committee Meeting Notes 15.07.2021
  • Publications
    • Leathermarket JMB Audited Accounts 2020/21
    • 2019/2020 Annual Report
    • JMB Final Account March 2020
    • JMB Management Agreement
    • Constitution of Leathermarket JMB
    • JMB Business Plan
    • JMB Complaints Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Leathermarket JMB Equalities Policy
    • Newsletters
      • Lawson Estate Newsletter
    • Worrying about money leaflet
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