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JULY/AUGUST 2015 news THANKS ! A huge thank you to the hundreds And to top it off, traders at the returning weekly Tottenham Green Market reported bumper takings – of you who came to Haringey with some selling out of the huge range of street food, Council’s Tottenham Conference to tasty local produce and delicious drinks on offer. But if you couldn’t make it – don’t worry! There are plenty find out more about regeneration of ways to get involved in regeneration plans and your plans and how you can get involved. local community. Visit www.haringey.gov.uk/tottenham to find out more. Tottenham Town Hall was packed throughout the day with community groups signing up volunteers, residents quizzing council staff about future plans and passionate people taking part in panel discussions about regeneration. Plenty of you told us what you liked, what you didn’t like and what your ideas are, while our guided walks around Tottenham were very popular.

New Spurs stadium – have your say Tottenham Hotspur has announced updated designs for its plans to build a new stadium, with a planning application for a 61,000-seater arena due to be submitted to the council later this year. Once a planning application is submitted, the council will hold a full public consultation as part of the planning process. To give feedback directly to the club and see the proposals in detail, visit www.tottenhamhotspur.com/new-scheme Tottenham traders group goes free If you run a business in Tottenham, do you know about the strong independent voice that represents you at the Tottenham Traders Partnership (TTP)?

Christine Patterson, who works as a business manager at Barclays on the High Road, took up the role of chair of the traders group earlier this year and has been busy promoting the huge range of Tottenham’s brilliant businesses, from award-winning pizza at San Marco to the holiday help at Dawling Travel.

Christine’s first move was to make membership of the partnership free to make it easier for businesses to join in with regular events, networking and meetings.

She said: “I want to encourage more traders to come together and find out what we do – working with the council, police and other traders groups across Haringey.

“At the TTP, we run business support seminars for local traders – whether it’s fire safety or marketing. It’s a great way of promoting your business and getting to know other traders in Tottenham.

“It’s a great time to be running a business in Tottenham, and Tottenham is changing – there are so many opportunities for businesses, and we’ve found there is a huge amount of interest on what’s happening here from people outside the borough.”

The TTP organises regular meetings with Haringey Council and Haringey Police where you can raise concerns about your business, regeneration, and introduce yourself to other traders in Tottenham.

To find out more, contact Christine at [email protected] and follow @tottenhamtcm on Twitter. news

Super cycling Meet Tottenham Cyclists will get a safer route from University’s Tottenham to the City as Transport for ’s work to install a new first graduates Cycle Superhighway gets underway. The skies above Tottenham Town Hall were filled The new route – from to Liverpool with mini-mortar boards last month as the first Street Station – will run mainly along quiet pint-sized graduates from a course to inspire residential streets rather than on the busy A10, more local children to consider going to university meaning the number of traffic lights cyclists will celebrated their achievements. have to navigate will be cut from 54 to eight. Two dozen bright sparks from two primary schools spent Improvements also include traffic calming five months visiting museums, being shown around measures in side streets that will improve Parliament and the University of Oxford, and even safety for everyone, with work on St Ann’s Road interviewing legendary children’s author Michael Rosen, continuing until mid-October. in the ‘Tottenham University’ scheme. The junctions at Ermine Road and Frinton Road will Nine-year-old Olivia, from St Francis de Sales Junior be closed during the work, which will normally take School, said: “My favourite trip was to the theatre and place on weekdays between 8am-6pm. Vehicle watching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- access to Ermine Road will be via the High Road. Time. I really enjoyed it because it was so interesting. This theatre lifted up my life to believe in myself.” For more information, visit www.tfl.gov.uk/cs1 or call on 0343 222 1234. At their graduation ceremony, every pupil received a certificate from the Mayor of Haringey after giving a presentation on what they had learned. The project is planned to be rolled out to other schools next year.

Victoria line closure Major engineering work to increase train Transport for London is carrying out the work. For more frequency on the information and help with planning your journey, visit www.tfl.gov.uk/victoria-line-closure means there will be no service from Seven Sisters to Walthamstow Central until August 30. Replacement bus services will run from Seven Sisters to , Blackhorse Road and Walthamstow Central, while Seven Sisters Station and Station are both expected to be much busier than normal, especially at peak times. services are not affected. news

Feel like chicken tonight? If fried chicken is on your list of fast food Backing for extra GPs favourites, a pioneering restaurant set The organisation responsible for ensuring there to offer a healthier finger-licking version are enough doctors surgeries to meet demand has in Tottenham Green could be right up made a commitment to urgently increase provision your street. in Tottenham after calls by Haringey Council. NHS England says it will increase the number of GPs Chicken Town, run by leading arts organisation Create, in Tottenham Hale by the autumn, as well as looking will open later this year in the Green’s old fire station, at ways to ensure better provision across the whole of offering steamed free range chicken flash fried in rapeseed oil – meaning tons less fat than the high Tottenham in the future. street norm. Improving healthcare is one of the key priorities of the Subsidised by evening trade, their junior special meal will 20-year plan for Tottenham’s future, and the council cost just £2 to local young people, giving an affordable, had urged the organisation to take action to ensure healthy alternative to other calorific lunch options. residents can see a doctor without having to battle excessive waiting lists. The not-for-profit restaurant will create 40 jobs over three years and train local youngsters in food, with leading London head chefs lending a hand to offer placements at top city establishments. Haringey Council has backed the restaurant with a Take part NEIGHBOURHOOD ALERTS in our £210,000 loan through its Opportunity Investment 3-month Fund, which aims to help businesses expand or set trial up shop in Tottenham. DIRECT TO YOUR PHONE For more information on Chicken Town, visit Does somebody Are there local Is there a www.chicken-town.co.uk want to build incidents that near you? neighbourhood you need to event? Is your bin know about? collection day Marcus Garvey makeover changing? Major work to turn Marcus Garvey Library in Tottenham Green into a brighter, more modern place to visit with new equipment and customer service facilities is set to Will there be begin this month. roadworks in your street? The new-look library will be kitted out with self-service machines to pay for things like parking permits, a customer service desk for general enquiries and additional staff on hand to answer questions. Find out quickly and easily simply by downloading our app! Notiz The library will temporarily close from August 30 for Download ‘Haringey around six months while refurbishment takes place, Council Notiz’ now free of charge from with activities and meetings re-arranged at locations your Android or Apple close by. market store. Haringey Council Notiz Neighbourhood Alerts: Nearby St Ann’s or Coombes Croft Libraries will be The new app to find out what’s open as usual. For more information, visit happening your street www.haringey.gov.uk/library-changes www.haringey.gov.uk

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