Pay your Annual Contribution for 2025-26
Payment Details: £40 per household, £200 per business or organisation
MCRA Annual Contribution Banking Details:
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account number: 21602763
Account name: Malden & Coombe Residents' Association
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Ref: Please add surname, road initials (eg WR = Warren Road, TW = The Watergardens) and house name or number. For example: Jones/GR/11; Smith/RR/Spring
What is the Annual Contribution?
The residents of the Coombe Estate (those households residing on the yellow roads on the map) pay a Coombe Rate Charge each year. The amount they pay is calculated with reference to a frontage formula for their property and this compulsory charge is paid over and above their regular Council Tax bill. The bill arrives with residents around the same time they receive their Council Tax invoice.
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The fees collected by the Council through the Coombe Rate Charge pays for the employment of five gatekeepers who manage the barriers/access points; the cost of the CCTV; the cost of the electric barriers and all the ground maintenance costs associated with managing and maintaining the scheduled roads (pothole and footpath repairs, road cleaning/sweeping, tree and shrub trimming, grass cutting etc).
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This Coombe Rate Charge forms part of a parliamentary law called the Malden & Coombe U.D.C. Act 1933 - the estate is unique and, we understand, perhaps the only one in the country to be managed in this way (ie, private roads owned and maintained by the local council).
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​​MCRA was formed to represent residents' interests on the Coombe Estate. Anyone residing on the estate is automatically a Member. Our committee works entirely voluntarily. The Annual Contribution of £40 is the small fee we ask of our Members (residents) to help with the administrative costs of running the association to manage permits, issues, events and queries of which there is a considerable volume. MCRA employs a part time secretary to manage this.
​Off Estate George Road Membership: Friends of the MCRA
​​As our neighbours, we offer the opportunity to the households at the end of George Road, who are not part of the Coombe Estate (ie they are not charged the Coombe Rate Tax) to join Friends of MCRA. This membership provides George Road residents with two permits to enable access to estate roads. Membership to Friends of MCRA is not compulsory. "Friends" receive our regular updates and newsletters, as well as two permits, as part of their membership. Please contact the secretary for information and payment details.
MCRA Annual Contributions Update
How does the MCRA use your Annual Contribution? Read the update on our work for members last year and the final contribution numbers (by road) in 2024-25.
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The work we do for you depends on your £40/200* contribution!
​​Here are the final Annual Contributions, by road, for the membership-year running 1/7/24-30/6/25.
We depend on resident contributions in order to carry out the work we do for Coombe Estate residents. Thank you to those who made a payment.
To keep our Association running, please make your Annual Contribution today. ​​​
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*£40 per household, £200 per business & organisation
Paying your MCRA Contribution and how it is used on the Estate
The Committee carries out several duties to represent residents on the Estate
The MCRA is a Company limited by guarantee and is established as a non-profit organisation whose objective is to protect the rights and interests of the residents of the Estate who pay the annual Coombe Rate. All residents* on the Estate become Members of the Association and our Committee, made up entirely of volunteers meets regularly to consider matters of importance that affect our interests. We have an Annual General Meeting at the end of each year to which all residents are invited.
Our Committee has responsibility for the employment of the Gatekeepers on the Warren Road barrier but the costs associated with this are charged to all residents through the Coombe Rate. The MCRA also engages the services of a Secretary, Amy Castle, to assist with the not inconsiderable volume of paperwork, minutes, meetings, general administration and the issue of barrier permits. News of Estate activities appear on this website: www.mcraltd.com.​​​
We keep a watchful eye on Planning Applications submitted for developments on the Estate and may make representations or objections where it is thought that proposals could affect the enjoyment of the Residents as a whole. We do not, as a general rule, monitor individual planning applications, nor do we perform any formal function in this regard.
The day-to-day responsibility for maintenance of the scheduled roads**, footpaths, grass verges, lighting, drainage and Estate facilities lies with Kingston Borough Council although the MCRA is in regular communication with the Officers of RBK to see that standards are properly maintained. The Association raises money to cover its expenses and the issue of permits by asking for a contribution of £40 from each Residence on the Estate, in July each year.
*includes tenants residing on the Estate for 3+ years
**See the Articles of the Association on our homepage for full definition (Scheduled = those roads maintained by RBK)
