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A month of poetry, talks, film screenings, exhibitions, oral history, singing and author events to explore Black History Month. Join us at events and tell us how you would like BLACK us to remember, 08 10 celebrate,14 and recognise future Black History Reduce HISTORY Months waste, Deadline NEWHAM. Black History recycle approaching Month 14 issue 399 // 21 Sept – 04 Oct 2018 // Every fortnight Dancing queen is 100 Edna still stepping out (p16) Look out for the next issue from 5 October 2018. Contents. A month of poetry, talks, film screenings, exhibitions, oral history, singing and author events to explore Black History Month. Join us at events and tell us how you would like BLACK us to remember, 08 10 celebrate,14 and On the cover recognise future Black History Reduce HISTORY Months waste, Deadline NEWHAM. Black History recycle approaching Month 14 08 WASTE NOT WANT NOT issue 399 // 21 Sept – 04 Oct 2018 // Every fortnight - residents who recycle 10 APPLYING TO SCHOOLS - deadline looms for parents 14 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Dancing queen - highlights from the events programme is 100 Edna still stepping out (p16) 10 In this issue 11 VALUE ADDED BOOKS - libraries offer fun activities 13 STOP SMOKING - help for those who want to quit 16 STILL IN STEP - centenarian Edna loves to dance 18 HELPING HANDS 16 - firms support young into employment Regulars 03 NEWS - three pages of news from across the borough 06 MAYOR ROKHSANA FIAZ - Mayor speaks to residents 22 OUR NEWHAM - community news 24 KIDS’ CORNER - poems, pictures and puzzles for our younger readers 26 WHAT’S ON - five pages of activities and events for you to try 18 Find us online at www.newham.gov.uk/mag For information on all Newham Council services visit www.newham.gov.uk @NewhamLondon www.facebook.com/newhamcouncil If you do not receive the Newham Mag at home, or know someone who doesn’t, PUBLICATIONS OFFICER: Kay Atwal please call 020 3373 1517, write to The Newham Mag, West Wing, 4th Floor, Newham STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Andrew Baker Dockside, Dockside Road, London E16 2QU, or email [email protected] Call the Mag team on 020 3373 1517 Publication of an advert in the Newham Mag does not constitute endorsement of any To advertise in the Mag call goods or services offered. The Newham Mag is printed on 100% recycled paper by GD Julie Madell on 07890 529 090 Web Offset Ltd and distributed by Letterbox Distribution. 2 New s Chance to come out and play Residents have been given an opportunity to bid Councillor Susan Masters, Cabinet member for health from a £100,000 a year fund to create traffic free Play said: “Play streets allow both children and adults to get Streets in the roads outside their homes. active where they live, bringing improvements in physical Newham Council will support parents, guardians and and mental health that come from feeling fitter and more neighbours to who want to close their roads to traffic for connected to your community.” up to four hours during daylight, allowing children to enjoy The first phase of the new scheme will able communities to supervised play. create up to 15 Play Street events. If particular streets are not Councillor Rachel Tripp, Cabinet member for the suitable, the council will work with neighbourhoods to find environment said: “Children playing outside their homes used nearby alternatives. to be at the heart of street life in the East End before cars Once the council agrees a Play Street, a traffic order will be and traffic came to dominate the environment. created to allow the road to be closed during daylight hours “Our Play Streets scheme aims to redress the balance, for up to four hours. Residents will need to show that they get children active and enjoying a life beyond computer have secured the support of a majority of their neighbours. screens, and bring people who share a street together as a They will also need to appoint volunteer traffic marshals and community.” play supervisors to make sure the events run safely. Play Streets have been taking place in the borough The council will arrange basic training for volunteers, since 2015 under rules designed for street parties. Mayor issue high-visibility clothing, and provide traffic cones and Rokhsana Fiaz and the council’s Cabinet have now agreed road closed signs as required. Residents will be supported a new process that allows for up to 24 play street dates to through the process by their community neighbourhood be arranged per year, compared to the two per year allowed teams. Foe more information visit www.newham.gov.uk/ under street party rules. PlayStreets The first Play Street in Tylney Road, Forest Gate, in 2015 A Play Street in Kingsland Road, Plaistow, in 2016 £100,000 fund for schemes 3 New s Bids for cash to build new council homes Ambitious plans have been approved by Mayor The Mayor of London has set the capital’s highest ever Rokhsana Fiaz and Newham’s Cabinet to bid for up target for building new homes in the draft London Plan – to £150 million of Greater London Authority (GLA) 65,000 new homes each year of which 50 per cent should and Government funding to support the council in be affordable. Newham’s share of this target is 3,850 new building approximately 1,000 homes. homes per year. The first bid is for £108 million from the GLA’s Building The council will also be asking the Government and GLA Council Homes for Londoners fund with potential to for additional Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing increase this to up to £150 million. This will be submitted headroom. A Newham bid of up to £53m is also being together with a parallel request to use up to £62 million of prepared to supplement the new build ambitions. receipts from homes sold under Right to Buy regulations. If successful, these bids would provide a significant and Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz said: “With more than 24,000 critical proportion of the funding required to achieving people on our waiting list and 6,000 homeless households Mayor Fiaz priority to deliver 1,000 new homes at social in temporary and emergency accommodation, it is critical rents over the next four years. that we maximise all funding opportunities available so The council’s submission to the GLA identifies 46 that we can build as many new genuinely affordable sites in Newham within council ownership which would homes as possible including at social rent levels. I will do attract around £108 million of grant. The proposed sites all I can to accelerate home building in Newham so we will deliver 2,100 new homes of which 1,056 will be at can tackle the housing crisis facing our borough and the or below London affordable rent levels, with a further 94 rest of London.” homes being shared ownership. The funding will support Newham Council in building 1,000 homes 46 build sites identified 4 ...in brief Councillor has Have say on healthy Stadium stepped down neighbourhood parking Newham councillor Veronica Newham Council want to hear restrictions Bids for cash to build new council homes Oakeshott has stepped residents’ views before submitting a down as an elected member funding bid to Transport for London Parking restrictions are in for Boleyn ward for family (TfL) in November to deliver a place around the London reasons. Liveable Neighbourhoods scheme Stadium in Queen Veronica, who was along Freemasons Road in Custom Elizabeth Olympic Park first elected to the ward House. on West Ham United in December 2015 in a Up to £10m is available for match days. by-election, is moving to projects that encourage walking, Veronica, right, and Controlled parking Oxfordshire. She said: sculpture campaigner cycling and the use of public hours in Stratford Central, “New Mayor Rokhsana Cecilia Welsh transport. Any project must Stratford North West, Fiaz has an exciting agenda deliver attractive and healthy Stratford South West, ahead and I have every confidence that this young, neighbourhoods for residents and Stratford South East and talented borough will go from strength to strength. It businesses while improving air West Ham residential has been an absolute pleasure to work for the people of quality. parking zones (RPZ) are Boleyn ward.” Newham’s bid will focus on what extended and apply from The Mayor said: “Veronica has shown great tenacity local people want prioritised. You 8am to 9pm. Only permit in representing residents passionately across a range of can comment online at www. holders can park in RPZs issues. Her concerns about genuinely affordable housing newham.gov.uk/consultations/ at this time with priority on West Ham United’s former Boleyn Ground, alongside freemasons by 10 October or give to residents and the campaign she started to keep the Champions visit a drop-in session at Cundy local businesses. sculpture in the ward is a tribute to her excellence as a Community Centre, Hartington Event days are local representative.” Arrangements for a by-election are Road, Custom House, on 26 advertised on signs at being made. September from 7pm to 9pm. the entrance to each of the RPZs. On event Plea to help save lives days visitors are courage Newham Council has encouraged residents to help save to use public transport. lives by signing up to the NHS Organ Donor Register. The next event days are There are 55 people in Newham on the transplant waiting Sunday 23 September list in need of an organ. There are 56,780 residents already when West Ham on the donor register. People need to tell their family they United play Chelsea at The Mayor and Councillors want to donate.