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Photography Feature Feature Sport Finally, fun photographs of The Thinking Space pilot Jim Ottewill gets the lowdown A new independent documentary uncovers the stories behind the Tottenham. Stewart Hardie that worked. Two locals on Tottenham Grime and the iconic landmark White Hart Lane due to be demolished next year. snaps the local area. want to share why. next generation of talent Memory Lane (2016) explores the legacy of the stadium. Page 5 & 6 Page 7 Page 10 Page 12 www.tottenhamcommunitypress.co.uk facebook.com/tottenhamcp T @tottenhamcp TOTTENHAM E [email protected] COMMUNITY PRESS November 2016 No. 1, Free Demolition talks in Northumberland Park Residents want a vote to decide on the future of their homes the campaigners. She says “I have lived here for 29 years, I have three We think children here, I know everyone, and “ feel very safe and secure living here. there should Now I feel very concerned about where I will live. I won’t get a new be a vote mortgage because of my age.” Her husband Sirajul adds, “With the before any money, we would have to go 100 miles from London to buy another sales or any place. But all of our family are here in Tottenham”. demolition, The plans would mean the dem- olition of most of the estate, but and a specific the council has not given residents any information, causing confu- sion for many people about their clear offer to future. There is very little appetite amongst residents for demolition, people about instead they feel the estate needs better management, investment in what’s going the housing, and support for the existing community. There would to happen ” be no guaranteed right to return for tenants, or for leaseholders, and the wider benefits for the com- to the estates after the new homes munity in Northumberland Park. are built. Council tenants would Haringey will retain control over be re-housed off the estate never the timing and quality of how any to return. 84-year-old retired cler- new housing is designed and built gyman Rev. Paul Nicolson lives loc- on council land. Once the Haringey Local residents Moriam Islam and Bob Lindsay-Smith at a recent meeting for Northumberland Park Decides ally and strongly supports the res- Development Vehicle is established idents campaign. He says, “We will in 2017 we will work closely with be taking the petition to Council- residents to deliver new homes, new By Paul Burnham & Adjoa Wiredu A recent council report states plans fore any sales or any demolitions, lors, MPs and Ministers, until they community facilities and new public to demolish and rebuild new homes and a specific clear offer to people listen to our concerns”. spaces in Northumberland Park.” esidents in North Totten- in Northumberland Park with a com- about what’s going to happen”, says A spokesperson for Haringey Coun- ham are questioning re- mitment to a minimum of 24% af- Paul Burnham from Haringey Def- cil said: “We have been working with Contact Northumberland Park R generation plans which fordable housing. Northumberland end Council Housing. local residents over the past two Decides for more information: could see the demolition of 1,800 Park Decides are concerned that the The recent ruling by the govern- and a half years to understand their homes over a ten to fifteen year Council may not build enough af- ment to block plans to force out views about the area, what they E [email protected] T 07847 714 158 period. The community group, Nor- fordable housing to rehouse all ten- residents at Aylesbury Estate is would like to see improved and thumberland Park Decides, an ini- ants. They want a proper yes/no encouraging for residents living in changed and how they want to work Next meeting: tiative of Haringey Defend Council vote to decide on any demolition Northumberland Park. They hope with us. These changes include po- Monday 21st November, 6:30pm Housing, is a group campaigning plans. They are signing petitions this could set a precedent to save tentially redeveloping parts of the Northumberland Park to defend council housing in Nor- and holding monthly meetings. “We their homes. Moriam Islam, a lease- local housing estates and deliver Neighbourhood Resource Centre thumberland Park from demolition. think there should be a vote be- holder in Alnwick House, is one of the new homes Tottenham needs 177 Park Lane, London N17 0HJ 2 No 1 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 TOTTENHAM COMMUNITY PRESS MEET THE TEAM up to date on what is happening in Tottenham. It’s really important for STEADFAST IN people to know what is happening in their local community and for there DIFFICULTIES to be a resource like the Tottenham Community Press to give people that knowledge and raise awareness of local issues. We should invest our- NOV/DEC 2016 – No. 1 selves in the place that we live and Tottenham Community Press is an get to know our neighbours rather independent community newspaper. than them being strangers. I think We publish bi-monthly and distribute that there is such a rich, vibrant mix 10,000 free copies of each issue of backgrounds and so many inter- to libraries, cafes, pubs, and other esting stories to be heard so would places around Tottenham. love to be a part of sharing them with everyone. Publisher David Floyd Louise Davidson, Editor Social Media Volunteer Adjoa Wiredu Art Direction uring fours years of men- Jonathan Duncan tal health difficulties, I -ac Broadwater Farm defence campaign event, Tottenham High Road, 1988 cumulated a form of com- Project Manager Credit Bruce Castle Museum, Haringey Archive Museum Service D munity. Composed of people, outside Anna Merryfield of friends and family, I had met in o care about an issue and to ’m David and I’m the publisher Andrews University to study social NHS services, people I’d never met Contributors Jim Ottewill do something about it are of the paper as part of my job anthropology. After graduating I in person but communicated with Neri Gun T two very different things. I as Managing Director of Social moved to London and became tot- via social media, as well as a com- Paul Nicolson To be a campaigner is a heavy weight Spider CIC, a not-for-profit social ally enamoured with its diversity, bination of articles and literature Paul Burnham to bare but I believe someone has to enterprise based in Walthamstow. the excitement of the city and the that – although the authors were M.S. do it. They work hard, day in and Two years ago we got together with dynamism of its characters. These unaware – became a community for Tom Vine day out for little or mostly no money, a group of charities and social en- attributes of London are, in my me. Through this unknowing com- Wendy Charlton fighting for better homes, services terprises to launch Waltham Forest opinion, wonderfully demonstrat- munity, I met Mark Brown – the De- Alan Fisher and our basic human rights. At a Echo, a community newspaper for ed here in Tottenham, and I hope velopment Director of Social Spider Stewart Hardie time of change and immense pres- Waltham Forest. that Tottenham Community Press – initially through Twitter but later Shakira Dyer sure, they gather local troops and The Echo launched as a quarter- can go some way towards captur- in person at a moment when return- stand up for us at meetings, demon- ly publication. It is now published ing that. I also hope that our paper ing to any meaningful sense of work strations and even on social media. every month with an average of 15 can give a voice to all the people felt unobtainable, or unsustain- In some cases, local campaign- local people contributing to each throughout Tottenham doing in- able. With the support of Mark and ers walk around door knocking to issue, writing about the issues that credible work to strengthen their David (see left) and through a Time educate us, giving us the opportu- matter to them and telling the stor- community. I mainly manage the to Change funded project Making nity to petition and helping to make ies that the private sector media logistics of the paper, such as distri- Waltham Forest Mentally Health our voices count. The work they do often ignores. The paper is funded bution and advertising, essentially Friendly, I was able to re-engage barely gets a thank you or a pat on via advertising from local business- trying to make sure the paper gets and become a member of a tangible the back. It’s a tough road they walk, es, charities and public bodies and to as many people as possible! So community again. Whilst at Social at times lonely, albeit an import- distributed in community venues far, reaching out into the commu- Spider we spoke of – amongst many ant one. That’s why this first issue across the borough. nity and finding out what people other things – the time prior to my of Tottenham Community Press is We’re launching Tottenham Com- are doing has been hugely reward- mental health difficulties when I was dedicated to our local campaigners. munity Press because we want local ing and I hope we can continue to studying at the University of the Arts Wendy Charlton tells us how her people and community organisa- develop those relationships as we London (L.C.C.), which later led to art does the talking, the Northum- tions in Tottenham to have the same progress with the paper. my involvement in redesigning the berland Park Decides group make opportunities.