Our Gospel Oak Ward. Our Home. Our Future
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Camden Green News GOSPEL OAK Spring 2010 Unnecessary Our Gospel Oak ward. housing costs Camden Green Party supports investment in improving the Our home. Our future quality and comfort of council homes. But Green councillors are concerned about the quality and cost of many of the works by Constantine Buhayer, Green for each other’s comfort. Party candidate now under way. To represent our Gospel Oak Dear neighbour, our Gospel Oak Highgate Green Cllr Maya Ward is to be involved, to live and de Souza said that repairs and Ward has a rich, welcoming walk the Ward every day. I know I history and your presence adds improvements should only be have the experience, passion and carried out with the full and to it. We both live here and we commitment to represent you share the same hopes. informed consent of leasehold- for many years in the future. Our ers and tenants, with the funds future. However, it still is one of the saved from unnecessary and unwanted works used on areas most neglected and divided My local apprentiship here has areas in Camden. We have not of greater need, including build- involved me with tenancy issues, ing more homes. been served well. But we don’t humane living conditions and want to put people down safer streets. Street parties and She said: “The council’s top- because for years we have local communities. been building our community down, target-driven approach up. treats flats and houses as prop- I am proud to state that as a erty to be managed rather than Green Party Gospel Oak can- as homes. We need to focus on Estate agents and property didate, I have supported the developers treat us like numbers. value for money, affordability, interests and quality of our local and what residents want.” They want us to leave, to sell our enterprises. homes. Natalie Bennett, Green Party Within our Gospel Oak bor- candidate for Holborn and St Don’t you think they humili- ders you will find a sustainable ate us by claiming that we live in Your neighbour, Constantine Buhayer Pancras, added that the cost world: a market, newsagents, of council housing works were ‘southern Hampstead’ or ‘High- bistro, pubs, cafes, post office, gate foothills’? often raised by leaseholders, fac- Road speed: safe and smooth dry cleaner, a great local tailor, ing often huge, unexpected bills. Research published in the Camden Green Party is bicycle shop, furniture shop, fish- But we are proud to live and and-chips, take-aways, ethnic vote for our future in our Gospel British Medical Journal campaigning for this to be “These costs, however, reflect shows that 20mph speed the default speed limit on mini-markets, hair dressers, a those being paid by Camden Oak Ward. fantastic public library. We have zones in London have cut all roads under council con- council - and hence by everyone schools community centres, road injuries by more than trol. Also, the Green Party is who pays council tax, for works Dear neighbour, we walk the green spaces, places of worship, same streets, at night we return 40%. Particularly marked campaigning for a national on council-owned properties. It bus stops and train stations... is absolutely essential that qual- to the same neighbourhood, was a fall in the number of 20mph limit on residential ity work that will last is done at we care for each other’s safety, injuries to small children. roads: simpler and safer! We have each other. the best possible price.” Meet your Green Party Gospel Oak candidates... Constantine Buyaher was born locally, country analyst. on the programme to deliver the “Green diversity represented in it. Prior to moving in the only all female-staffed hospital in Union Jack”, an icon to put Green Britain here she taught in Uganda and Malawi, Britain, the Garrett Anderson Maternity Constantine has volunteered and and renewable energy firmly on the map. and initially on her return to Britain taught Home (now closed). He has lived most of taught English language skills at a local He’s also worked with the World Fair Trade special educational needs children in Cam- his life in Gospel Oak Ward. Constantine college, to locals with special education Organization to drive market access for den. From 1995 she worked with children’s said: “My, and our, home is here, in Gospel needs and non-native speakers. He now local farmer and artisan groups the world mental health charities as a practitioner Oak Ward,;it is not a marketing dot on the lectures at the University of Westminster. over. and trainer, and continues to work for a map of greedy developers.” children’s mental health charity providing He is secretary of Gospel Oak Safer He is passionate support and infor- In the early Neighbourhoods, founding member of the about local traders, mation to parents. 1990s, he was Mansfield Conservation Area, and on the facilities, fairness in the Camden Conservation Area Advisory Committee and the environ- She is involved in Cyprus Arts Forum, (planning). He supports his local parish, ment. His father, Camden Talks, the which focused on and is a keen Gospel Oak historian. Don Smith, cam- Mental Health Liai- uniting London’s paigned relentlessly son Group and the young Greek and Robin Smith has a habit of transforming for social justice Camden Fairtrade Turkish Cypriot issues into solutions. In 1997 he founded and to keep Oak Vil- Network, and is communities. Host Universal to help realise potential for lage standing in his also a Roundhouse ethical organisations and so deliver social role as deputy edi- volunteer. The results were praised by British change. Working with Anita Roddick he tor of the Ham & High. Robin is proud to foreign ministers as an illustration of how developed the global ‘self-esteem’ strategy represent the Green Party in Gospel Oak. She said: “I would be privileged to rep- London can heal communities. His Cam- for The Body Shop, a strategy that famous- resent all those living in Gospel Oak Ward den experiences were invaluable when ly challenged the ‘fashion waif’ stereotype Jane Walby has lived in the Gospel Oak and feel I could bring my life experiences covering war-torn former Yugoslavia as a and promoted ‘real women’. He’s worked ward since 1981 and delights in the and commitment to that task.” Our Gospel Oak Ward. Our home. Our responsibility This leaflet is printed on recycled paper using environmentally friendly inks. Please recycle it after you’ve read it. Camden Green News Green Party ... fair is worth fighting for Spring 2010 Drugs: community action Local living - tip of the month Junk mail can deal with the problem plague? by Green Party candidate Community Safety Partnership We can supply you with Constantine Buhayer (CSP). Without them our ward a free ‘no junk mail’ would be infested with drug sticker, and informa- Drugs. Users look at them as the abuse and its by-product: armed tion on how to stop ad- best solution to life. This means violence and a rise in drugs re- that drug-abuse is a disease af- lated deaths. But they cannot be dressed junk mail. fecting our ward. It is contagious, everywhere all the time. To get the sticker call it spreads through social alien- 020 7388 8969 or email ation, depression and the break- So now what? In fact, we, the down of families. residents of Gospel Oak ward, are southcamdengreen part of the solution. But taking Do you have furniture in decent condition that you no longer need? party@googlemail. It also spreads in some com- action seems complicated. It The council provides a free doorstep collection for re-usable com, or write to Free- munities with roots in war-torn seems we need evening classes furniture. Call Street Environment Services: 0207-974 6914 post RSCU-GGCB-LJAX, parts of the world. Parents are and a couple of aspirins just to Flat 56 Walker House, learn how to be involved; look Phoenix Road, London at all the acronyms: ACSG, YCS, Beware the ID card ABSG, CPCG, SNT... NW1 1EP. trap: it is expensive If you have a sticker Where do we start? There is already, you might be little obvious co-ordination and even less public awareness. This Camden Green Party is warning while getting a card will be wondering why this means that the only thing most young residents in the borough voluntary, once on the Na- leaflet arrived on your do is to close our front door and about the hidden costs of tional Identity Register, young doormat. pretend nothing is happening. applying for the new identity (ID) people will not be able to get The only thing we do is when our card. off it and will have to keep the We don’t see po- home is violated. Then we call register up to date with their litical communica- 999. But then it’s too late. ID cards are to be targeted at personal details for life. Not tions as junk mail, 16 to 24 year-olds in London at doing so could lead to a fine of but as a way of made to feel that their children If elected, I promise to mobil- a cost of £30 each. Up to 52 cat- up to £1,000. helping people exer- egories of personal and biomet- belong to a different community, ise the Council and the CSP to cise democratic rights a community beyond their con- provide every household, every ric details will be added to the Green Party Cllr Adrian Oli- trol. Drugs fill the gap.