Mr. Robin Mandal:

Unincorporated bodies, which many residents' associations are, are by their nature quite fluid. Prior to the financial crash in 2008, we had regular meetings in the scout hall to debate developments going on in our area. We supported many and opposed few. That was how it worked. Come the recession, followed by Covid-19, it is really hard to have incorporeal meetings. Actually contacting people is difficult. In 2008, we transferred everything to electronic. It is all done through a Gmail account, everything is circulated to everybody and we collate everything back. That is the best we can do. We have always signed any submission. I am speaking with the hat of the chair of my residents' association at the moment. It is always signed either by the chairman or the secretary, generally by the secretary. There is a named person and an address. Even though we are unincorporated, we have a bank account, we have been there for 35 years. We have a legal presence. The reason we tend not to have many signatures is because we feel it undermines our message, that it is suddenly a kind of round robin that everybody has signed and nobody has thought of. We think it diminishes the impact.