Crouch End, Hornsey & Stroud Green Area Plan (Workshop Findings) On Tuesday 7 February, a workshop was held at the Union Church Community Centre to identify priorities and prospective activity for the development of a Crouch End, Hornsey & Stroud Green Area Plan. The workshop was attended by residents, service providers and local partners. The table below summarises the priorities, discussion and ideas for prospective activity that came out of the workshop. This information will form the basis of negotiations with services to agree content for a three year area plan. A final plan (with year one activity) will be agreed by the Crouch End, Hornsey & Stroud Green Area Committee at their next meeting on 10 April 2012. The area plan will be reviewed and updated annually. Priority Issue Comments Activity 1. Active community Life • There are a large number of active Young People community and residents' groups in the • Make better use of existing community and area that feel that they get little support private facilities e.g. YMCA from the council. • Ensure that Hornsey Town Hall, when re- Young People: opened, has adequate access for community • There is no youth club provision / based groups catering for young and older activities for adolescents. people. • Youths gathering in the Broadway can feel • Encourage local traders to offer work intimidating placements / apprenticeships • Strong perception of link between young • Encourage children to walk and use bikes people and ASB • Review potential use of empty buildings and Older People: empty space to increase youth provision on • Need activities weekends and school holiday Access to Community Facilities • Explore potential for communities to buy freehold of council properties / rent space at an affordable price 2. Business Community Local Traders: Local Traders: 1 Priority Issue Comments Activity • Want to stem the closure of independent • Rent subsidies / business rate caps for shops and maintain and promote viable independent shops local shopping centres. • Improve direct links between traders and • Need to think creatively with retail space Council Preservation of High Street / Broadway: • Additional for Food from the Sky on Budgens • Maintenance of this area’s shops is and the Meadow Orchard Project (behind the important along with the provision of health centre) services in this area • Scope the potential for a Farmers Market in Hornsey High Street: Crouch End • Needs regeneration Preservation of High Street / Broadway: General • Explore capped rents for shops on the • Why did MH and green Lanes get Broadway to encourage shops to stay and substantial funding form the Outer ensure they are not priced out of the area London Fund but CE, HY and SG Hornsey High Street: did not? • Recruit a Town Centre Manager to promote the area, liaise with traders, Council and TfL and generate new opportunities • Regeneration of Hornsey Town Hall should be a priority and barriers dealt with Town Centres: • Develop Town Centre Plans for Crouch End, Hornsey and Stroud Green 3. Community Safety • Re-offending is a problem • Increased SNT patrols in the evenings • Safety in Finsbury Park 4. Health Provision • Lack of GPs in HY and SG and support for • Scope impact on health provision in future carers locally (population growth, development, emerging • Stroud Green and Hornsey lack a Group needs) - work with CCG. Practice • Serious concerns about ongoing cutbacks in mental health provision in Haringey, 2 Priority Issue Comments Activity e.g. in home support; crisis units; & proposed sale of part of St Ann’s Hospital 5. Housing • Too many empty private, HA and council • Prioritise affordable housing planning policy properties not being utilised (Review the proportion of affordable housing • Need social housing (especially family) to achieve maximum delivery) not luxury housing • Agree a local planning vision • East/West divide in terms of housing • Explore use of mediation services to resolve • High rental prices in Crouch End disputes with developments • Rogue landlords are exploiting local need • Encourage / incentivise developers to contribute to local community through employment initiatives and live/work units • Contribute to Shelter campaign on rogue landlords 6. Parks, Green Space and Parkland Walk: Parkland Walk: Greenery • Fly-tipping is a problem • Mapping exercise to defend Parkland Walk • Landscaping maintenance needed to deal boundaries / identify thefts / losses. with puddles General Greenery: • Do not want lighting installed • Create an online database that details street • Want to establish illlegal boundaries and trees to be removed and when they will be recover losses replanted General Greenery: • Identify more food growing spaces - in • Trees are removed and not replaced schools, community gardens or individual plots • A more sensitive approach to planting and - creative use of vacant space (even if pruning is required temporary) - gardens in builder's bags, in Use of Open Spaces: parks • A 2003 survey showed a deficiency of Use of Open Spaces: open space in Crouch End • Audit of current open space and usage levels • Potential for more open space “pocket to determine if action is needed to encourage parks” (St Aloysious' / Channing Field) better use 3 Priority Issue Comments Activity • Will the new Ashmount school impact on • Retention of Town Hall Square as “a unified Parkland Walk negatively? space” Sustainability & the Environment • Establish green hub to provide information to householders about home insulation and energy reducing measures, help with buying materials, finding contractors, getting energy audits and so on. 7. Planning & Development • Community is dis-empowered by current • Evaluate current planning service and planning processes and frustrated by lack community engagement processes of response to observations and feedback. • Communicate Council response to Localism Act • Lack of clarity on how Neighbourhood re: Neighbourhood Forums and Plan / Neighbourhood Forum powers will Neighbourhood Plans work locally – will it further complicate the • Review current Controlled Parking Zones relationships between community and • Explore use of mediation services to resolve planners? disputes with planning decisions / • Strong sense that illegal development developments (and land grabbing? – this was a Parkland • Pursue enforcement against rogue Walk issue) is taking place locally developments • Clarification sought on development of • Councillors role and powers in planning to be Hornsey Town Hall advertised to residents (Council website should Conservation Area Considerations: advise residents to take their planning issues • Seems to be a natural split between to local councillor) Crouch End Conservation Area and Conservation Area Considerations: Highgate Conservation Area on Stanhope • Review and improve conservation area design Road – goes with parking zones too. guidance / shop-front quality • More planning resources required • Conservation Area Advisory Committees need • Crossovers and front garden parking to be re-invigorated with new members reduce parking for visitors and shoppers • Review and minimise use of satellites on 4 Priority Issue Comments Activity and destroys frontages. Co-ordination buildings needed Outer London Fund: • Why did Stroud Green, Hornsey and Crouch End not receive any funding? 8. Public Realm Pavements: Pavements: • Railings restrict pedestrians and can cause • Clutter audit of Crouch End with residents and accidents Officers (undertaken) – what are next steps? • Railings coupled with trader A-boards • Repair / replace pavements outside Budgens restrict access for immobile and prams and Tesco in Crouch End (in more traditional • Pavements are in poor condition on High paving) Road / Broadway Lighting: Lighting: • Review lighting standards and repair criteria – • Lighting is inadequate (not bright enough) find out what happened to the original Dogs: ‘replacement programme’ – care needed with • Dog fouling on Florence Road / entrance historic columns. to Parkland Walk Dogs: • Dog fighting • More dog waste bins • Lots of professional dog walkers • Advertise Veolia reporting contact number • Dog owners need to be made to be more more widely responsible • Charge professional dog walkers • Article in Haringey People 9. Transport Bus Routes: Bus Routes: • The new Health Centre is not very well • TfL representative to attend future Forum connected by bus routes from meeting to hear residents concerns on bus Campsbourne routes / provision locally • Traffic noise from 91 bus a problem in • Traffic noise from 91 bus: Crouch End • Continue pressure on Metroline / London Impact of Ashmount School Development: Buses. Remove 91 and 41 bus stops from • New schools need appropriate travel plans Tottenham Lane and consolidate W7, 41 & 91 5 Priority Issue Comments Activity to avoid further congestion bus stops on Broadway as recommended in • Concerns over development of Ashmount recent CE street audit. School – what contribution will developers Impact of School Development: make to ensure low impact on • Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of School transport/congestion issues etc? Travel Plans National Rail: • Cross-borough cooperation between Islington • Safety issues at Hornsey and Harringay and Haringey (involving TfL) to consider railway stations impacts and potential solutions (expand and Highways: increase W5 route) • Speed and parking restrictions are too National Rail: piecemeal and add unnecessary signage • Network Rail to bring safety up to the