03 05 06 Plans for Pop up Atomic Whipps revolution 50 Your Council keeping residents informed Issue 220 4 February 2019 www.walthamforest.gov.uk @wfcouncil THE GRANADA CINEMA LIVES AGAIN! Once graced by the likes of Waltham Forest’s opening party as the To attract the best artists and deliver The Beatles, Johnny Cash and very first Mayor’s London Borough of the best quality entertainment, Soho The Who, the Grade II* listed venue Culture, will help us make sure that Theatre will be working with the council in the heart of Walthamstow had the borough has the infrastructure to manage the 1000 seat venue for the been left unused and falling into necessary to ensure the cultural legacy benefit of the whole community. disrepair for over a decade. Now, of the Borough of Culture will live on. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, said: Waltham Forest Council aims to “The renovation and rebuild will “One of the main aims of the London breathe new life into this iconic create new jobs and will provide a Borough of Culture 2019 programme venue. new area for the whole community to is to help more Londoners, regardless This month, the council is set to enjoy. The works will ensure that such of their background, to enjoy the full purchase the former Granada cinema an important part of the history of the benefits of the arts. Waltham Forest, on Hoe Street, Walthamstow, also borough won’t get lost and will instead with its amazing representation of known as the EMD. become an important venue for cultural diversity, is the perfect location The news comes just weeks after future generations.” for the development of a cultural hub in the start of Waltham Forest’s year The building will be fully refurbished the North East of London. as the Mayor’s London Borough of to bring it back to its former glory and “Not only will this new project help Culture 2019. create a new and exciting destination preserve a historical building, but it will Leader of Waltham Forest Council, venue. The plans respect the heritage create a new cultural centre in the heart Clare Coghill, said: “The former and history of the building, maintaining of the borough to bring the community Granada Theatre is one of the most the appearance, as well as the design together in a place where everyone will loved buildings in Walthamstow. Its and character of the interior, to ensure be able to enjoy arts and culture.” purchase, which comes weeks after it keeps its historical value. Continues on page 4 Crowds queue to watch The Beatles More info perform at the Granada in Hoe Street, bit.ly/2KYHVzuSee May 1963. Image © Vestry House Museum Look inside the auditorium as it is today! Page 4 www.fosteringwalthamforest.co.uk 2 News Remembering the victims Members of the public joined faith leaders, Sally Littlejohn, laid a wreath by the Anne Frank councillors and staff to mark Holocaust memorial tree. Memorial Day at the Town Hall on 28 At the end of the service, those in attendance January. placed a stone each beside the plaque dedicated A moving service was held to remember the to Anne Frank and all victims of persecution. millions of victims of the Holocaust and other Laying stones on a grave is a traditional Jewish genocides. custom. After prayers and readings by Reverend Paul Thanks go to The Royal British Legion Standard Braham and Paul Neville, the Mayor, Councillor Bearers and all those who attended. The Mayor, Councillor Sally Littlejohn and Cllr Clyde Loakes, Deputy Leader of the Council, The wreath by the Anne Frank Memorial tree join members of the public, councillors and staff to mark Holocaust Memorial Day From the Leader Cllr Clare Coghill The opening event of the first programme so it’s fitting that we are To see the current condition of for the benefit of the community of ever Mayor’s London Borough about to take ownership of one of the main stage and auditorium is a Waltham Forest. of Culture was an amazing the borough’s most iconic cultural great spectacle but also a waste of Having a venue with the history spectacle that could only have venues. an amazing cultural asset in the heart and scale of the Granada will enable been made in Waltham Forest. It was a young Alfred Hitchcock of our borough. To bring it back into us to build on the legacy of London The 70,000 people who who would visit the Granada Cinema use while maintaining the original Borough of Culture 2019 and once attended got their first taster of on Hoe Street in Walthamstow from architecture will attract the biggest again inspire the young people of what is to come this year as the his home in Leytonstone, giving him names again, as well as crowds from our borough to be future pioneers in event showcased work that over a the inspiration to go on to become across London and beyond. music and entertainment. thousand of our young people had one of the most famous directors in We are planning to turn this been involved in creating. the world. famous building into a comedy and It is the inspiration gained from This venue has also been graced entertainment venue once again creating and experiencing culture by musicians like The Beatles, and have been working with one that will be the true legacy of the Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash of London’s finest operators, Soho London Borough of Culture 2019 and Buddy Holly. 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More services The official independently audited free letterbox delivery of Waltham Forest News is 97,161 ABC Regional 4 January 2016 to available online. 1 January 2017 Issue 220 I 4 February 2019 www.walthamforest.gov.uk 3 Whipps Cross Hospital calls on In brief residents to help design its future More successes for Whipps Cross Hospital has launched a new group Food Safety Officers to find out what residents want from a redeveloped The council’s Food Safety Officers work hard to keep consumers site. safe from unhygienic food businesses who may put public health Applications are now at risk – and the team has started 2019 on the front foot with some open for a small number notable successes. of local people to join the A large quantity of meat was Community Engagement seized and destroyed by Food Action Group, which will Safety Officers after the shop help make sure the public offering it for sale was unable to can shape the future of prove where it had come from. the ageing hospital and On Tuesday 8 January, officers its surrounding land. visited Oana & Andrei – Magazin Barts Health NHS Trust Romanesc, 71 High Street, and its partners published Walthamstow, where they found a vision for the future of the Rodent skeletons were items including whole partridge, found on the premises 100-year-old site last year pheasant, and deer carcasses and are now embarking offered for sale alongside frozen steaks, sausages, and fillets. The on drawing up more owners were unable to prove where the meat had been sourced and the detailed plans. items were seized. Thames Magistrates’ Court ordered that the food be The vision for the site is destroyed and awarded the council costs of £1056.00. to secure a multi-million The team then closed Salim Caterers, 90 Palmerston Road, E17 6PZ, pound redevelopment after evidence of a mice infestation, including rodent skeletons, was that would make Whipps discovered in the kitchen. The closure was confirmed by the magistrates Cross a flagship campus on Friday 25 January and costs of £806.00 were awarded to the council. offering the best care for Finally, the council successfully prosecuted Al Nasar Kebabish Ltd and generations to come. its director Mr Mohammed Kabeer for a series of food safety breaches at Initial research suggests the former Al Nasar Kebabish, 139 High Road, Leyton. They were each a brand new state-of-the- fined £2000 and the council was awarded costs of £1558.17 from both, art hospital – complete totalling £7456.34 when fines and costs were combined. with an A&E and maternity department – could be built on a fraction of the existing estate. This would Over a century of health care at Whipps Cross release land for other uses, potentially including new homes for coming months to get people’s committed to local people working the community and staff. views through regular dialogue, with us to influence the future of The trust wants to design its meetings, surveys, social media Whipps Cross. This is a once-in-a- plans with local people, so is and more, but I want us to go generation opportunity, so help us recruiting a panel of residents further than that.