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News News Feature Photography Financial support for Youth strategy How a family-run Creating a new visual language: Seeing Tottenham Haringey community commitment: Ten-year business is recovering in a different light with pinhole photography organisations plan to cut youth crime from the pandemic Page 10–11 Page 4 Page 6 Page 8 tottenhamcommunitypress.co.uk facebook.com/tottenhamcp T @tottenhamcp TOTTENHAM E [email protected] November 2020 COMMUNITY PRESS No.40, Free Local news that matters to you By Luchia Robinson Kenyon says it is vital that school streets are installed to ensure Community calls he community from Chest- children’s safety. nuts Primary School in “Our children are the most vulner- TBlack Boy Lane is calling for able members in the community, the implementation of an emergency we have a duty to protect them and for safe school streets school street, following frequent make sure that they can cross the road incidents around the school. road safely. Particularly in Luka’s Families take action after increase Last month, five-year-old pupil case, he did everything he was meant Luka Grimes was hit by a car, which to do, he waited until the light was in dangerous road incidents drove through a red light as he was green [for him to cross] and a car crossing at the pedestrian crossing. still went through the [red] light. Luka’s grandfather, Christian Wolmar, said: “Luka is fine, he was shocked but he wasn’t injured. “We need to “That crossing is just totally unsuit- able. Essentially the pavement is have small just too narrow on the school side, and it’s very difficult to make it safe piecemeal without slowing the cars down. “Some kid is going to get killed interventions because it’s inherently dangerous. now” “This is an accident waiting to happen, somebody is going to get Catherine added: “All of the badly hurt there because the cars emphasis is put on children [know- whizz through at 30 miles an hour, ing] how to be safe in our streets, there’s no effort to slow down.” but actually, we need infrastruc- Katie Horwood, Headteacher at ture changes to keep kids safe on Chestnuts Primary School says our streets, it’s not their fault; this she would like to see traffic filtered wasn’t Luka’s fault, and there are on all the roads surrounding the ways that we can make schools safer school, with only buses allowed to by making sure there aren’t cars pass along Black Boy Lane. speeding outside the school gates.” She said: “We’ve got issues with Data from a TfL report shows that cars speeding, we’ve got cars over- 125 people were killed and 3,780 taking buses at the bus stop and people were seriously injured on suddenly seeing the pedestrian London’s roads in 2019. crossing, and slamming their foot Continued on Page-3 on the brakes. That happens 10–15 times in the morning as children As a not-for-profit organisation, we need your support to help are coming in, and 10–15 times produce Tottenham Community in the afternoon as children are Press. Scan this code with your PayPal app to support our going home. publishers Social Spider CIC “Where the bus stop is placed at with a one-off donation. the moment means that cars can’t see the pedestrian crossing until they’re passed the bus − it’s just really not safe.” Following Luka’s car incident, children and parents held a pro- test outside the school to highlight the road dangers and to call for road infrastructure changes. Chestnuts Primary School pupils protest outside their school Credit Blaise Grimes-Viort Local parent and co-chair of Har- ingey Living Streets, Catherine 2 No 40 NOVEMBER 2020 TOTTENHAM COMMUNITY PRESS WELCOME Steadfast In Difficulties November 2020 No. 40 At Tottenham Community Press we believe that Tottenham deserves a newspaper that is written by and for local people, and which celebrates community in all its diversity. We believe that local news brings people together around the issues that matter most to them and ensures everyone can have a voice in local decision-making. Now more than ever we believe that the media should be responsive and accountable to the community it serves. Publisher David Floyd Editor Luchia Robinson Designer Jonathan Duncan Head of Community News Operations Lordship Recreation Ground by Julia Parnaby Paige Ballmi Head of Advertising Introduction from the editor and Membership Klaudia Kiss ello, welcome to Our front-page story looks at issue 40. how pupils at Chestnuts Primary Head of Engagement The ways in which we School staged a protest to call NEWS Penny Dampier H can view and experience Tot- for safe streets, highlighting the Contributors tenham are recurring themes dangers they face on the roads as Julia Parnaby, Bella in this edition. Photographer they travel to and from school. Saltiel, Simon Allin, Stephen Furner challenges us to Students at Haringey Sixth Form Stephen Furner, see Tottenham in a different light College have tackled the tough Liam Davis, Hannah by using pinhole photography to topic of youth violence in film create a new visual dialogue. In form, and they have won national Marshall, Karin Lock, what ways can new imagery spark recognition at the UK Content Christina Egan new conversations? Will you take Awards 2020 for their bold, up the challenge by making your hard-hitting depictions (p.17). own pinhole camera? (p.10–11). Haringey Council under- Following last month’s review lines its ten-year youth strat- of the book Broadwater, Karin egy commitment which aims Lock speaks to the author, Jac to cut youth crime across the Shreeves-Lee who discusses her borough (p.6). It has also launched life growing up in the area, her its Fairer Education Fund that Tottenham Community Press influences and what inspired targets increased, fairer access Selby Centre, Selby Road, Sign up to the Tottenham N17 8JL her to write (p.18). to higher education (p.4). Karin describes Broadwater as What is your experience of Email [email protected] Phone 020 8521 7956 being ‘part of a changing Totten- Tottenham? How do you see ham narrative.’ One might add your local area? Get in touch TCP newsletter Published by Social Spider CIC that our young people are pivotal by sending a story idea to tcp@ Sign up: tottenham Tottenham Community Press is a in reflecting these ever-changing socialspider.com. member of IMPRESS: The Independent Monitor of The Press. For more experiences. This much is evident communitypress.co.uk information on the TCP’s complaints policy and how to make a complaint in the actions they are taking and visit: tottenhamcommunitypress. Luchia Robinson co.uk/complaints the conversations they are having. TOTTENHAM COMMUNITY PRESS No 40 NOVEMBER 2020 3 NEWS Argent Related sign deal with Co-op New Co-op store comes to Tottenham Hale rgent Related and the excited to be delivering a new Co-op have signed a deal local food store for the com- Ato bring a new Co-op food munity of Tottenham Hale. The store to Tottenham Hale. Co-Operative Group is a company The Co-op is the first retailer that invests in and serves their to be secured in the new district local community well.” centre which is receiving a £1bil- The Tottenham Hale develop- lion investment. ment will deliver 1,030 new homes The new store will be in the (a mix of market sale, afford- Ashley Road West development able and rental), 15 new shops (the site of the former BP garage) and restaurants, a cinema, co- and will run on 100% renew- working and office space and a able electricity. health centre It is forecast to serving 30,000 be open in 2022, “We are looking local people. creating around The new Co-op 15 local jobs. forward to will provide a Property devel- serving the funding boost oper, Argent locally, giving Related formed community” back to causes in a strategic devel- the area through opment partnership with Haringey its membership scheme, while the Council in 2016. They say this deal retailer’s Food Share scheme works with the Co-op delivers on one to minimise food waste by support- of the top priorities identified ing local not-for-profit organisations through local engagement. That who work to tackle food insecurity. the community wanted a local food Robert Tindale, Co-op Acqui- store north of Watermead Way sition Manager, said: “We are where they could ‘get a pint of milk delighted to have the opportunity and healthy food choices without to make such a significant invest- Continued from Page-1 Chestnuts Primary School is unless you’ve got a mini crane, crossing the busy junction.’ ment in the area and to be part of included in an additional funding so it’s not something that peo- Tom Goodall, CEO of the Totten- this major development. According to the Department bid, hoped to be matched with ple can easily budge out of the ham Hale development project at “We are looking forward to serving for Transport, there were 849 council funds, that will cover the way − but it is moveable, so in Argent Related said: “We are very the community.” reported road accidents in Har- cost of the school streets, CCTV other words, if that intervention ingey in 2019 (3 fatal, with 100 measures and relevant signage. doesn’t work, we can move it serious, and 746 slight injuries). St Ann’s ward councillor, Cllr somewhere else.” Haringey launched its first- Mike Hakata said: “We are Other planned options to school street at Lordship Lane going ahead with five additional improve road safety on Black Primary School in February 2019.