Wood Green, Noel Park and Area Plan

On Thursday 2 February, a workshop was held at Noel Park Primary School to identify priorities and prospective activity for the development of a Woodside, Noel Park & Bounds 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 Woodside, Noel Park & Bounds Green Area Committee at their next meeting on 17 April 2012. The area plan will be reviewed and updated annually.

Priority Issue Supporting comments Activity 1. Community Engagement • Haringey website is not very user friendly 1. Secure access for local groups to use • No good local media to use to share community facilities at a reduced/free rate information about local events (libraries, community centres etc) • People need somewhere to go to meet 2. Local people to set the agenda (e.g. for each other, learn new skills and take part consultations, Area Forums) in activities (people of all ages) 3. Introduce more ways for residents to hold • Heartlands High is working to decorate services to account local areas with young people – need 4. Establish a network of local Residents’ more activity like this Associations 5. Replicate “I Love Camden” website which offers information on things to do, local deals, cinema listings etc 6. Market more to help local economy as ’s cultural centre 7. Organise a Haringey equivalent of Camden Fest – promotion of arts and social organisations 8. Better information / communication about

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Priority Issue Supporting comments Activity learning opportunities locally 9. Make use of talking software for visually impaired in engagement and marketing of services 2. Community Health • Heartlands Development programme has 1. Mental health outreach programme – been given planning consent counselling, keep fit, activities to counter • Encouraging local people to use local loneliness facilities e.g. parks for exercise 2. Offer local debt management advice • The consequences of not going for 3. Campaign / negotiate a community medical screenings, vaccinations, check ups needs centre facility as part of local planning gain to be communicated for Heartlands • Need to emphasise health messages to 4. Heartlands developers to recruit locally Muslim population 5. Establish a community walks programme • Male life expectancy is low; linked to using local parks males not presenting to GPs at first signs 6. Youth fitness programme (like Military of an issue Fitness held in ) • High smoking rates locally 7. Audit of Green Gym to establish take up / use 3. Community Safety • Street drinking an issue on Tintern, 1. Identify problem areas for street drinking Granville and Grainger. Sometimes an (incl. Tintern, Granville, Grainger, Cline Road issues on Cline Road and Hillside Gardens and Hillside Gardens) • Somali and Kurdish gangs gather outside 2. Enforce a Drinking Control Zone in the area betting shops 3. Make more use of CCTV to detect issues – in • Increase in violent crime (stabbings / consultation with local residents shootings) locally 4. Police activity to tackle gangs needs to be • Two-way communication between police communicated locally (to residents it doesn’t and communities is crucial appear that anything is happening) • 101 number does not have good customer 5. After school police patrols and from 7pm care onwards 6. Encourage residents to engage with local

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Priority Issue Supporting comments Activity Neighbourhood Watch 4. Family Support • Irresponsible parenting is a local problem 1. Parenting classes to support families and build self-esteem (considering accessibility e.g. translation services) 2. Young Mum’s coffee mornings, drop-in sessions 3. Exchange visits / learning from programmes elsewhere in London / UK 4. Advertise local support groups / activity schemes more widely (in betting shops) 5. Houses of Multiple • Haringey has lots of new incomers – more 1. Engagement when new people move in to Occupation / Overcrowding than other areas the area through property companies • Public infrastructure can not support existing communities • High number of HMOs attracting single men and recent immigrants (high turnover of these tenants) • These residents have no stake in the community and are isolated culturally • Lack of understanding over system of housing • Little care shown to many properties 6. Public Realm (parks & • Some irresponsible dog owners in 1. Address inadequate lighting in the alley of green space, traffic and Woodside Park Arnold Bennett Way (off the High Road), connectivity) • Patches of inadequate lighting across the Tintern Road and Hillside Gardens wards 2. Explore feasibility of making the temporary • Olympics flag outside the Wood Green diversions set up to aid the gas works on library needs to be replaced Park Road (opposite Mary Newner • Vandalism a problem in Noel Park and Way) permanent to aid congestion Russell Park 3. Replace Olympic flag outside of the library

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Priority Issue Supporting comments Activity • Fly-tipping an issue on Frome Road 4. Explore options to lock parks after dark • Not enough Council officers visible to 5. Investigate feasibility of CCTV to combat fly- deter anti-social behaviour tipping • Litter amongst bushes and foliage on 6. Dumping of rubbish on joining of Lordship Wood Green Common and Chapman’s Lane Green 7. Shop frontage improvement programme for • Bus route on Bruce Grove Road – 221? Lordship Lane • Congestion on Tintern Road 8. Monitoring of roll-out of fortnightly refuge collections to ensure residents are happy with new provisions 9. Litter picking programmes involving Council, residents associations, schools and community groups 7. Regeneration (Civic Centre • Bleak unattractive environment 1. Learn from regeneration programmes and local developments) • Perception that Wood is getting less elsewhere e.g. regeneration of Kensington investment than post-riots Exhibition Road • Local people do not want Wood Green to 2. Resident and Officer audit of High Street to be forgotten de-clutter unnecessary signage • Safety issues 3. Encourage successful chain stores to invest • Quality / attractiveness of the area around in Wood Green Morrison’s 4. Encourage a range of restaurants in to the • Decline in shopping area economy with area to break up proliferation of fast food fewer people visiting outlets • Many fast food outlets and betting shop 5. Encourage good pub landlords into the area • Civic centre feels unsafe 6. Hold a local traders market on the High • Alleyways are dark in the evenings Road (this has happened in the past but • Too many uniform stores e.g. discount could be a regular market) shops 7. Introduce higher design standards for • Growth in money lending shops and buildings in Wood Green (public and private) betting shops with enforcement against those who do not

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Priority Issue Supporting comments Activity • Old University – planning to meet them erect 260 flats 8. Advertise licensing processes and raise • Concerns about and opposition to the awareness of other Council services and proposed waste plant reporting processes (and limitations Councils work within) 9. Develop a local lettings policy 10. Develop a play area into Middlesex University development 11. More information and consultation on Pinkham Way 12. Pinkham Way Update to be on next Committee agenda (April) 8. Young Adults (17-25 years • Activities needed for this age group – 1. Extend opening hours of Noel Park Centre olds) particularly on Sandlings Estate (Homes 2. Increase offer of activities for a range of for Haringey) ages • Lack of activities for 12-15 year olds and 3. Local developers to offer local apprenticeship 16-20 year olds need support schemes • Youth, drugs, gangs interfaces 4. Seek new employment opportunities for • Rival gangs young people 9. Young People (8-17 years • Theft from young people and other petty 1. Training opportunities for young people to old) crime is a local issue gain skills and positive self-esteem • Not a lot in the park for this age group to 2. Encourage / incentivise betting shops to do employ security • Young people need a place they can call 3. Deploy detached youth workers with a long- their own term focus • Under 18s are going into betting shops 4. Advertise local facilities / activity that is and selling drugs and betting shops let currently underused and undersubscribed them in 5. Establish a local mentoring / role model • Youths loitering on Waldegrave Road, scheme Coleraine Road and High Road 6. Promote Police Cadets, Scouts etc in primary

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Priority Issue Supporting comments Activity schools 7. Encourage parents to run communication projects

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