Have Your Say on the Future of East Finchley
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Local News is our Aim THE www.glh.co.uk Professional Sales & Lettings 020 8883 5000 AT COMPETITIVE RATES 020 8444 5222 CARS & COURIERS eastfincleereleafco ARCHER October 2012 No. 227 20p ISSN 1361-3952 where sold A community newspaper for East Finchley run entirely by volunteers. Have your say on the future of East Finchley By Daphne Chamberlain The recent Localism Act has introduced a new right for communities to draw up their own neighbourhood plan. This will allow residents, employees and business people to come together through a neighbourhood forum, and say where they think new houses, businesses, community Valerie Regnet makes friends with homeless cat Tabby Tom. Photo by John Lawrence facilities and shops should go, and what they should look like. Cuddlesome new home for Sport East Finchley, sup- an East Finchley Neighbour - ported by the Community Trust, hood Forum. is leading the way in setting up Continued on page 2... Tabby Tom There was a happy ending for at least one of the homeless cats brought along to the Horace the legend Animal Aid & Advice charity shop open day on Sunday 9 September. As we went to press, it was conirmed that Horace, one Grizzled old gentleman a donation or offer a home to a visit www.animalaidandad- of Finchley’s best-known characters, had died. He col- Tabby Tom was rescued from homeless cat, pop into the shop vice.org or telephone 020 8444 the streets and looked after by close to the Phoenix Cinema, 6290. lapsed outside the Whittington Hospital on his way to the charity for several months an appointment and doctors were unable to save him. before being picked out by cat Horace was a familiar sight N2 8JA, or on Facebook at lover Valerie Regnet and given 82 High Road for around 30 years on the www.facebook.com/TheArch- a new home by her daughter East Finchley High Road in East Finchley erN2 Jennifer. and North Finchley and often Valerie, of Talbot Avenue, N2 9PN travelled on the 263 bus. He said: “When Jennifer and Tabby remembered the names of hun- Tom locked eyes, it was love at 020 8883 0033 dreds of people he spoke to over irst sight. He has moved into the years and often ired off his her lat and is now enjoying a high-volume catchphrase “Best well-deserved, spoiled life.” highroadn2ricettandellisco of luck!” The shop was busy on the The former Martin School open day with people coming in Estate Agents and Valuers Established pupil, who lived on the Grange to see the line-up of kittens and estate, is thought to have been cats looking for loving owners. in his late 40s. Word of his Founded in north London death on 24 September spread in 1971, Animal Aid & Advice quickly among the traders and is a voluntary group that raises residents who knew him and all its own funds to support its ……………………..The Right Choice loral tributes were laid outside animal welfare work. The char- McDonalds in North Finchley. Estate Agents – Valuers Residential Sales – Lettings –Management – Cyprus Properties ity always has animals in need 40 High Road East inhley London P el 00 00 a 00 0 An online petition was started of rehoming. If you can make Email enuiriesprimeloationsou esite ww.primeloationsou asking Barnet Council to lay a bench in his memory. Serving the community for over 18 years Call us for a Free Valuation. Family Business you can Trust. Social media sites were Call us FREE for a quote on looded with tributes. Jesta la 0800 279 3463 Naghten wrote on Facebook: VICTORY AUTO SERVICES “Best of luck to you in your next LANDLORDS NICEIC CERTIFICATES & PAT TESTING life, mate. Touched so many people’s lives and always made If you are a landlord and require electrical certificates for your things a little brighter. Thanks rented properties then look no further. Everything Electrical is AirConditioning Recharge & Servicing for being a legend and a man known in the East Finchley area as being one of the leading Mechanical repairs, tyres, we all knew growing up. RIP, electrical contractors you can trust. Why not see for yourselves. bodywork, clutches, exhausts Horace”. 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Continued from page 1 Applications Roger Chapman, chair of lead to some innovative ideas maker spirit alive Sport East Finchley, said: to develop East Finchley. We Barnet Council By Diana Cormack 93 Abbots Gardens, N2 “This is a golden opportunity will be holding a public meet- There can be little doubt that one of the greatest suc- for the local community to ing to discuss the ideas later Part single-storey, part two-storey, cesses of our glorious London 2012 Games has been that rear extension including two roof create a vision for the future in the autumn.” lights and new pitched roof. Altera- of the Gamesmakers. They have brought volunteering of East Finchley. No one The Localism Act states tions to raised patio and boundary to another level and may have persuaded people to knows East Finchley better that local people will be given fence. Extension to roof, including rear participate in some form of volunteering themselves. than the people who live and the chance to vote on their dormer to facilitate loft conversion. The Retired and Senior and interests of the disabled so work in it. We should be the neighbourhood plan provided 48 Bancroft Avenue, N2 Volunteer Programme (RSVP) they can enjoy using them and ones to decide how it should it is in line with national plan- Extension to roof, including two side was set up in 1988 by Commu- beneit the community. develop.” ning policies and the local and one rear dormer windows, to nity Service Volunteers. Its aim • Keeping in Touch is a tel- Issues that will no doubt council’s broader strategy. facilitate loft conversion. First-loor was to enable older people to ephone befriending and book be high on the agenda for More local input was first front extension. feel valued and to enjoy life by club scheme for the house- our area are the prosperity advocated in THE ARCHER 42 Church Lane, N2 becoming active in their com- bound, with whom volunteers of our High Road and East in March 2010 by Stokes Change of use from Class A2 to munity. A wide range of activi- are suitably matched. Each End Road shops and busi- Court resident Harriet Cop- Class A1 Retail Shop.