Dismasted By Roger Wright HIGHBURY AFTER MANY COMPLAINTS weren’t there. This is one of the and representations from the points we made in our submission. COMMUNITY NEWS community and from all our Unfortunately, this is unlikely to councillors, the Council’s planning be the end of the matter as the www.highburycommunity.org No 48 September 2006 department has rejected the mobile phone companies always application by all five mobile appeal against refusal, on 20 Highbury Park N5 2AB phone companies to raise thirty- principle. On the other hand, they Tel: 7354 5029 Fax: 7354 5034 two mobile phone masts on the may get together and produce the new Arsenal football stadium. information the Council requires The application has been rejected and re-submit their application. So Crowds under control? by the Council officers themselves we are waiting to see what without even bringing it before the happens next. By Roger Wright East Area Planning committee for On the other hand, since the old a vote. This suggests the Council stadium is already being considers it has good grounds for demolished, the ten masts that are rejecting the application. mounted on it have to go The joint application has been somewhere. Three have already rejected on the grounds that the appeared on the old Arsenal companies haven’t provided any building in Highbury Hill.We don’t information on the overall impact know where the others are going, of the masts. Each company so please keep your eyes open for provided information for its any large cranes appearing soon in application only, as if the others a street near you. New Editor HCNEWS HAS A new Editor – programmes. Since I went freelance NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T! POLICE BARRIERS BETWEEN DRAYTON PARK AND HORSELL ROADDISAPPEAR UNDER THE CRUSH Robin Jarossi. Robin is a journalist three years back I been pursuing fiction and freelance magazine Editor and writing more seriously. I’ve finished a has been an HCA member for novel and am currently working on a SO WHAT IS the new Stadium called: there was a ‘mass breakout’ along Horsell use as offices.The Council’s legal officers some years. third draft of it. I’ve completed three “Ashburton Grove”? “Emirates Stadium”? Road – see photos. are discussing this with AFC at present. “New Highbury”? “******** Stadium”? He says “I specialise in editing short stories.” It is becoming clear that the Metropolitan If you have any information about Interestingly, although the Stadium itself Police are having to provide many more problems caused on matchdays, please let supplements for newspapers and Send him your articles or news via is in N7, Arsenal’s postal address is in magazines and writing about TV [email protected]. officers to control the crowds than they HCA know. HCA would particularly like Drayton Park and is still N5 – so perhaps did before and also that they are unable to to understand what is happening in St it should be ‘New Highbury’ after all. control the crowds if anything unusual Thomas’s Street and at Finsbury Park. So has anything changed? The answer occurs. Will we soon see cuts in police Do you have photographs or must be “No” but also “Yes”– we have the services across the borough as a result of comments about problems on same old problems but they are much, the additional expenditure required? match-days? much larger in scale and affect a bigger Arsenal Football Club only pays for the area than before. police presence inside the ground. The If you have photographs of what’s happening in your road, please submit The new stadium is more or less sold out. policing outside is paid for from the borough policing budget. them to the new match-day problem For the regular home games this season website, set up by local residents: so far, about 60,000 have turned up. After matches, many fans are also seen http://www.stadiumimpact.info Of course, we all know that there have crossing Highbury Fields diagonally from been no improvements in the transport the end of Ronalds Road to Highbury infrastructure, that Holloway Road tube Corner. On Saturday afternoons, this has STOP PRESS – McAlpine's completely disrupted normal community is closed before and that after matches Community Liaison Meeting and Drayton Park is shut early when use of the lower part of Highbury Fields there is an evening match, just to make as thousands of fans cross on the grass. The original ‘management plan’ said that MCALPINE'S HELD a liaison meeting at sure no one can use it! After matches, All Saints Church on 30th August to people are queued up in Holloway Road, this would be controlled and prevented but there has been no sign of this from present what will be happening about which restricts the traffic further causing the redevelopment of the old Arsenal long delays. the Council or police, so far. 30 Highbury Park Highbury Community Association Stadium – now called ‘Highbury The result of this is to ensure that the On the other hand, no one has been killed Square’. Many people are already London N5 2AA The HCA represents 750 residents and businesses on all by lorries or buses in Holloway Road yet aspects of living and working in Highbury, Lower Holloway kinds of scene we used to see outside unhappy with the noise, vibration, Arsenal tube station for 20 minutes after – but what might happen on a cold, wet pollution and lorries. It transpired that Tel/Fax 7359 7440 and Finsbury Park. Run by volunteers, it relies on donations. Wednesday night in January when the Send cheques to HCA Treasurer, 79 Highbury Hill, N5 1SX, a match now occur regularly at Highbury although many streets are affected by Corner,Arsenal and Finsbury Park for at tube system breaks down and Arsenal this, only a few had been notified about made out to ‘Highbury Community Association’. have lost a mid-week game? www.lafromagerie.co.uk Send letters or articles for next issue to least 40 minutes after a match, even the meeting and our councillors hadn’t [email protected] or assuming that the tubes run well. After Highbury Community Association [HCA] been invited either. Neither did anyone Also at HC News, 1st floor, 79 Highbury Hill, N5 1SX. the Aston Villa game on Saturday 19th also understands that Arsenal Football from the Council’s traffic department Visit www.highburycommunity.org August, Highbury and Islington station Club is operating a restaurant on match attend. Many people were pressing for 27 Moxon Street W1 was closed.The police tried to ‘hold’ the days in their building in Drayton Park. another such meeting before the ‘Big Printed & published by HCA, 1st floor, 79 Highbury Hill, N5 1SX fans in Drayton Park to stop them spilling They have no planning permission for Dig’ starts in October. We will have out over Holloway Road. As a result, this – the building is only approved for more about this in our next issue. 4 1 American art in Highbury In search of Jar 1.7L Artist’s story: Lorraine Clarke HCA interviews Pat Graham and Melanie Pat – We are preparing the next Standage from 96 Gillespie, a small, exhibition, which is called ‘The Sound contemporary art gallery on … 96 of Stones in the Glass House’ from Gillespie Road. Pat Graham is from Christian Brett in collaboration with Milwaukee,Wisconsin, USA, and a famous Gee Vaucher. Christian Brett is an artist music photographer in the US, while who works around typography. Gee is Melanie Standage is a from East London and very influential designer/photographer from London who in the US. lived part of her youth in New Foundland, Canada. 96 Gillespie opened early 2004, Mel – Christian and Gee stage this as a has had many exhibitions since and its response to the events of 9/11 and website www.96gillespie.com is now visited their aftermath. It is not about the 300 to 500 times per day. victims of war,but a study of those who PAT GRAHAM AND MELANIE STANDAGE most profit by the creation of war. HCA – What brought you to Their idea is that those leading the ‘war Highbury? on terror’ are in fact the perpetrators FERTILITY DOLLS – DETAIL Pat – When we wanted more space than our Stoke Newington base and benefactors of it. Centrepiece of the exhibition is Christian Brett’s installation of a glasshouse with opaque panes that have been offered, we found it in Highbury. 96 Gillespie Road was once the Artist Lorraine Clarke, originally from Yorkshire, has exhibited in Italy, Gillespie Road Post Office and we made it into a gallery, home and etched and inscribed with a list of US military interventions made over the last 100 years. France and the USA. She has a residency at Florence Trust Studios, St. open studio. Saviours Church,Aberdeen Park, and is a co-founder and art director of Mel – The gallery is not on the high street and it’s in part a Pat – After that, at the end of November, we will put on a show Euroart Studios in Tottenham. She lives in Highbury. destination gallery and this is a great location for public transport. about crafts and craftsmaking, about using your hands to make art. “I start with a little lie … I’m not panicking! It hangs together with a Christmas tradition from New Foundland We noticed it after 7/7, which nearly shut down the gallery, and we I’ve got a huge exhibition in November at the University of notice it on match days, although the odd football fan comes in.