OUR MISSION

We are on a mission to effectively manage the open spaces on our estate for the benefit of our estate residents.

We want people to be proud of the estate that they have chosen to live on.

OUR VISION

WELCOME to the GPML website. This site provides current and potential homeowners detail of the management of the communal areas within the Nunnery Fields development built by Abbey Homes Ltd towards the end of the 1990s in the market town of Thetford, Norfolk.

SOLICITORS and POTENTIAL NEW HOMEOWNERS - NEW PROCESS WITH EFFECT FROM OCTOBER 2022

If you are involved in the purchase or a sale of a property within this estate, you will need to contact Shazad Butt at Rudlings Solicitors, on 01842 810300, or at shazad.butt@rudlingsllp.co.uk.

Rudlings Website is at www.rudlings-wakelam.com

Rudlings Solicitors support Groundlocal Property Management with :-

- Providing FME1 forms and associated documents to sellers’ solicitors

- Providing a Deed of Covenant and Certificate of Compliance to buyers’ solicitors

There is a charge for both services, and full up to date details will be provided by Shazad Butt on contacting him at Rudlings Solicitors. The process is no longer handled in house, please note only the contact details above are to be used for ALL property transfers going forward.

Other company documents, including company accounts, AGM minutes and historical subscription charges are found under "Documents"

JULY 2025 - URGENT UPDATE

On behalf of Groundlocal, I am writing to advise you of the impending retirement of two of our directors. Wendy and Neal Evans are planning to sell their home, and to leave the area in the next few months.

Obviously we wish them well for the future, and thank them for the time they have given us in keeping Groundlocal, and what it does, working so well on our estate. However, this leaves us with a problem, as, although those of us remaining have a very strong desire to continue as we always have, - this will simply not be possible with just the three of us.

So - we are now at a bit of a crossroads. We desperately need at least two (or more) volunteers to come forward to help us to continue to run the company for the benefit of everyone living on our estate. As you will be aware, the company charges an annual fee of around £45 per year per property for our open spaces.

You will be spending very little time - around three or four evenings a year - (around two hours max each time) meeting with the rest of us to decide how everybodys' money is spent, and to help with ideas to maintain our wonderful estate.

In return for your support, your annual fee is actually waived for all the time you support us in this way.

The alternative will be to wind Groundlocal down, and to appoint an external management company to take charge of the open areas on the estate. This option will give us no control over anything relating to open spaces, so is far less desirable - but most significantly will increase the annual cost per property to way beyond the £45 just mentioned. We have made some preliminary enquiries, and the lowest cost we could sensibly hope for would be in the region of £150 per year per property. Nearby Kingsfleet, and others pay much more, with fees of over £500 per year per property quite common on many other estates in the region.

I re-iterate, it is the desire of the remaining directors to continue with the current setup, please contact us urgently using the "contact us" tab above, if you are able to support us in any way. No specific skills are required, just a bit of time, and a desire to be part of a team for the benefit of everyone living here. If you could provide an email and ideally a mobile contact too, we will be in touch for an informal no obligation chat.

Form of authority to communicate with you via email rather than post :

Please complete the details below if you have not supplied us with your email contact details, and would like us to use these going forward for annual service charge invoices and annual general meeting notifications, along with any other necessary and important company communications.

You have our assurance that GPML is compliant with GDPR data protection regulations, and that your email details will not be used for any purpose other than in-house sending to you of service charge invoices, AGM details, and any other necessary communications. You can find the full GDPR privacy policy which explains how we collect, keep and process your personal information in accordance with these regulations here