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HCA News 111 MASTER Highbury Community Association June 2019 HIGHBURY COMMUNITY NEWS highburycommunity.org | @HighburyCA | facebook.com/highburycommunity A new community centre for Highbury By TANIA WITTER Right on church path, where Jack's coffee cart stands at present, Christ Church plans to build a new community centre. It will be an attractive, low, one-storey building, which will be easily accessible to all and will have a reception area, church office, one large, or two smaller meeting rooms and a small cafe and kitchen. This building has been beautifully designed by Matthew Lloyd Architects. Our vision for this building is that it will enable us to be more open to the world and to connect better to the community. The space we have in the church itself is used almost to capacity by various groups meeting through the week and by the church church to expand its own ministries. the way and have launched the 'Heart congregation on Sunday. This new We have all the necessary of Highbury' campaign to raise the building will allow us to expand our permissions in place and are ready to rest of the funds needed. children and youth work and will start building, as soon as we have We are running a number of social enrich what we can offer to the secured funds for 85% of the cost events, which we hope will raise community and our charity partners. (approx £1 million). We are well on awareness of this project. In addition to having more space for projects we already run, such as the Christ Church would like to invite you to a garden winter night-shelter, the Memory Cafe, and the community playgroup, party on Sunday 30 June, from 12:00pm to we will hope to develop new 3:00pm, which will be a day of fun activities and a ministries of benefit to the wider chance to contribute to the realisation of this community. exciting project. There will be more space for community groups to rent for their activities and we will make a prop- The Garden Party at Christ Church (next to the ortion of the time free for charitable Clock Tower at 155 Highbury Grove, N5 1SA) will purposes. It is our hope that the new be officially opened by local celebrity Clive building will be a real asset to the Anderson. community, as well as enabling the Highbury Community News is printed by www.absoluteprint.com, printing for Islington and beyond since 1996 Issue 111 highburycommunity.org 1 Highbury Community Association June 2019 Control measures agreed for the Community and Wireless festivals By DIANE BURRIDGE Finsbury Park Ward and Highbury tacted. Residents in Islington can call West Ward in June, and the morning Haringey’s Licensing section on 020 Representatives from the HCA and after each event day to monitor the 8489 8232 during office hours and 020 other residents, met with Council situation. 8489 0000 during out of office times. Officers and Festival Republic (the •Noise monitoring point: There will •A Response Team of 10 people will concert organisers) on 15 May 2019 to be one point in Highbury West be employed, to encourage Festival give feedback on plans to improve outside 2 Romilly Road, decided upon Goers not to travel through residential security, cleaning, anti-social behav- by Officers from an analysis of streets but to walk along Seven Sisters iour, and crowd and traffic move- complaints last year. The HCA ex- Road to the tube stations when going ments during and after the pressed concern that noise levels can home. There will be staffed road Community Festival on 30 June and be worse on the upper floors of closures along Blackstock Road, at the the Wireless Festival on 5, 6 and 7 buildings. Islington Officers will do junctions with Ambler, Monsell, July. Melvin Benn, the Director of ‘roving’ monitoring also. Chatterton & Gillespie Roads; along Festival Republic and Claire Arm- •There will be three Active Gillespie Road at the junctions with strong from Festival Republic Hotlines for noise and other dist- Plimsoll, Avenell and St Thomas’s attended, as well as Council Officers urbances. The Residents’ Information Roads; and at the north entrances to from Noise Control, Traffic Man- Line is: 020 8396 7701. Festival Prah and St Thomas’s Roads. Local agement and Licencing. The meeting Republic will employ a Resident residents and their friends/visitors was chaired by Niall Forde from Liaison Officer to respond to concerns. will be able to enter these roads. Public Protection in the Environment This number of Hotlines is an increase •There will be a geofence for Uber and the Regeneration Section of from only one in 2018, when people for the 90 minutes during which the Islington. Cllr Una O’Halloran, Exec- complained that it was often not Seven Sisters Road is closed at the end utive Member for Community Dev- answered. Hotlines will operate from of the Festivals. elopment, is now the lead councillor 22 to 29 June from 8am to 8pm whilst •Temporary toilets outside for this initiative. the stages for the Community Festival Finsbury Park will be trialled, not too 45,000 people are expected each are being set up; from 8am to 2am on near people’s homes: when such day with live music acts ending at 30 June during the actual Community toilets were placed in nearby 9.30pm on 30 June and 7 July, and at Festival. And from 1-4 July from 8am Hackney streets last year, people 10.30pm on 5 and 6 July. -8pm during the setting up of stages complained. There will also be more etc for the Wireless Festival, and then toilets within the Park this year. Further improvements will from 8am to 2am during the Festival •The Council is writing to and hopefully include the following: Days on 5, 6 and 7 July. visiting off-licences in the area to ask •The Council and Festival Republic •If the Hotline number does not will meet with residents living in work, local Councillors can be con- Continued on page 3… Seasons and Blossoms We are a health food shop in Highbury selling a large range of fresh local and organic fruit and HARDWARE FOR THE HOME AND GARDEN vegetables and health foods KEYS CUT - LOCKS SUPPLIED HOUSEWARES - LIGHT BULBS - TOOLS Seasonal produce from local farms, PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL GOODS organic dairy & delicatessen, artisan bread, COAL, LOGS & KINDLING eco-friendly cleaning products and organic pet food 20 Highbury Park N5 2AB Deliveries available Tel: 020 7354 5029 Email: [email protected] 92 Highbury Park N5 2XE - 020 7159 4867 www.woodlandhardware.com Issue 111 highburycommunity.org 2 Highbury Community Association June 2019 Continued from page 2… Final update on Sainsbury’s them not to sell alcoholic drinks in glass containers, and not to sell more planning application for the than four cans to any one person. These measures build on the Old Police Station on the experience of Hackney Council which has worked pro-actively with Festival Blackstock Road Republic to protect residents as far as possible. Let us hope that loud noise By SARAH POTTER the Islington Local Plan. It was noted levels, anti-social behaviour, and in the report that the two trees are traffic chaos are all reduced this year. Last August, Islington Council significant as the first two in a line of Please do use the Hotline and planners refused planning permission street trees running south, and that feedback to the Council for any for a Sainsbury’s convenience store at their loss would have a ‘significant problems. 211 Blackstock Road with an on-street detrimental effect on the character And please do contact HCA via the parking bay for their delivery lorries. and appearance of the street scene’, website or the email address with This bay would have occupied part of contrary to the Local Plan and an your thoughts on or responses to the the pavement outside the store, associated policy which protects impact of this summer’s festival. If necessitating the loss of two street green infrastructure. you would like to monitor impact trees. It was also noted that the use of the regularly and join monitoring HCA joined the campaign of local proposed loading bay by Sainsbury’s meetings, we would be delighted to people against Sainsbury’s planning delivery lorries would result in hear from you too. application and submitted an displacing parking in the area, thus objection to the plan. Since then, affecting other road users and buses. Sainsbury’s have appealed to the Risks to pedestrians and cyclists Planning Inspectorate against the arising from the use of the loading bay ACCOUNTANTS Council’s refusal. Local people again were also identified. The Inspector campaigned and submitted evidence concluded that harm to the ‘safe and FOR SMALL against this move by Sainsbury’s, efficient use of the highway’ required including the HCA. by the Development Management The Planning Inspector’s decision Policies would result from Sainsbury’s on the appeal was issued last month proposed bay. BUSINESS st We specialise in supporting small businesses on May 21 . In all, the Planning Inspector’s and can help with: Sainsbury’s application in their decision upholds last year’s refusal of • Self Assessment Tax Returns • Bookkeeping & VAT appeal for planning permission for the planning permission by Islington • Business Accounts • Payroll & HR loading bay and the use of the Council planners. • Corporation Tax • Company Formations Blackstock Road site for retail An acceptable use now needs to • Business Start-ups ...and much more purposes has now been dismissed by be found for this site. Highbury East For your free, no obligation meeting call us today the Inspector.
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