tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46587767087883036922024-02-21T00:40:49.553-08:00Hackney Unites BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-82292182977050579322014-01-10T08:06:00.001-08:002014-01-10T08:22:20.857-08:00Mark Duggan..a Hackney Unites statement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt;">Following
the Mark Duggan inquest verdict we need </span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt;">to
launch a civil rights movement right here in Hackney.</span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt;">Mark
Duggan was unarmed when he was shot dead. He was posing no realistic threat to
the armed officers who were tasked with arresting him. Immediately after his
death the press printing lies about how Mark Duggan had ‘opened fire’ and shot
an officer ‘in the side of the chest’. This was simply untrue, and clearly
designed to create a public perception that the police acted in self-defence. The
police failed to properly seal the area, and evidence was tampered with. None
of the above is 'rhetoric', it is cold fact. </span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt;">Those of us who have been around a long time were not surprised that the
inqu est verdict appeared to legitimise the killing of Mark Duggan. Over the
years we have seen too many deaths in police custody, and never seen police
officers held to account as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">We
remember in particular Michael Ferreira, Vandana Patel, Oluwashiji Lapite,
Sarah Thomas, Kwame Sasu Wiredu, and Colin Roach, all of whom either died in
Stoke Newington Police station, or after ‘contact’ with officers from that police
station. We also remember Harry Stanley who, returning home with a table leg
which had been repaired for him by his brother, was shot in the head and killed
by an armed response unit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">The
killing of Mark Duggan was a shocking and disturbing incident. The verdict of
the inquest, and the police statements subsequently imply that it was perfectly
legitimate for trigger happy officers to shoot to kill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">We
contrast the killing of Mark Duggan with the professional response of armed
officers outside the Woolwich barracks after the killing of Lee Rigby. In that
incident, police faced with being attacked by two armed individuals who had
just killed, acted in a professional manner, shooting to incapacitate and then
arresting the suspects. In that case the suspects were charging at the police,
in Mark Duggan’s case he was reported to be running from the police. If we need
armed police, we need them to behave professionally. If Mark Duggan was a
criminal, the responsibility for the police was to bring him before a court,
not dispatch him to the mortuary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">The verdict
in the Mark Duggan inquest raises wider issues about institutional racism in
our society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Why
did the Daily mail print lies about a dead black man (was it because they
instinctively do?). Why are black boys so often systematically failed by our
schools system? Why are unemployment rates so much higher for ethnic minority
communities? Why are black youth more likely to be imprisoned when in similar
circumstances white youth receive non-custodial sentences? Why is stop and
search so often accompanied by unlawful racial profiling? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">We
pay taxes to fund the police service. Their role is to protect us (lets repeat
that: their role is to protect us), but in our community too often it appears
as if the police view the community with suspicion at best, and at worst as ‘the
enemy’. The horror of this killing and its endorsement by the inquest verdict feels
like a metaphor for a society in which black people’s lives are simply worth
less than those of their white neighbours.
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Our
community must respond and it is the responsibility of the elders to ensure
that they give leadership to the young. There is massive pent up anger in our
community. Without leadership, we fear that there will be a repeat of the riots
of 2011, riots which harmed small businesses in our community, put lives at
risk, and resulted in hundreds of young people, some with no previous records,
sent to prison. Rioting is not the way forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Martin
Luther King, while condemning riots also cautioned: ‘There is nothing more
dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that
society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing
to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when
they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">As a
community, we need to come together and devise a plan of action that reverses
the current trend which sees too many of our young reaching the conclusion that
they have no stake in society. This will inevitably involve struggle, with the
police (to enforce a change in police attitudes to our community) with
government policy (which has condemned a million young people to unemployment),
with those employers who operate in our community, but fail to provide
opportunities to our community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">As a
community, we need to find ways to hold those in authority to account, so that
they work with us to actively dismantle the barriers that exclude our youth
from their rightful place in society. In short we need a civil rights movement
right here in Hackney. It will not be easy, but we cannot allow the current
situation to deteriorate any further. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">If
not us then who? If not now then when? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;">Please
join us at the Trinity Centre tonight (Friday 10th January 7pm) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-49491034892926625762013-12-11T04:59:00.000-08:002013-12-11T04:59:23.884-08:00Hackney Community Celebrates Life of Nelson Mandela this Friday evening!(13th December)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA</span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hackney Unites have come together with various community organisations in Hackney to organise a ’Nine-Night’ celebration of Nelson Mandela’s life.
Through the African tradition of ‘Nine-Night’ - an extended wake – Mandela’s
life will be celebrated through songs, poetry, African-drumming and
performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This event takes place from 6pm at the Trinity
Centre, <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:postalcode w:st="on"><st1:postalcode w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Beechwood Road</st1:address></st1:postalcode> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">London</st1:postalcode>, <st1:postalcode w:st="on">E8 3DY</st1:postalcode></st1:postalcode></st1:street>
on Friday 13 December. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">There will be a book of
condolences open for signing from 5.30pm. There will also be African drumming,
community singing, poetry and also be tributes from representatives of various
communities in Hackney. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Co-organiser, Ngozi Fulani said: ‘Perhaps one man
more than any other in the 20th and 21st Century represented the spirit of
humanity and endurance. NELSON ROLIHLALA MANDELA has made that final journey
along the long walk to freedom. This is an opportunity for us to come together
as the Hackney community to honour Madiba!’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For those that cannot make it to the event in
person but would like to send a tribute to be read or shown on the night,
please send emails, video tributes and images to: </span><a href="mailto:ngozi.fulani@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">ngozi.fulani@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This event has been organised and supported by
E.A.T. (Education Africa teaching (EAT), Hackney Unites, BEMA and Hackney CVS
and the Trinity Centre (Dalston). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For further info contact: </span><a href="mailto:ngozi.fulani@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">ngozi.fulani@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> or telephone 07949 868 989 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You will be also able to sign a condolence book on
the following days and times: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Wednesday 11th December - Hackney CVS 10:00 to
16:00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Wednesday 11th December - Northwold Community Hall
(Emashi rehearsal venue) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thursday 12th December - Hackney CVS 10:00 to 16:00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Friday 13th December - Hackney CVS 10:00 to 16:00 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Friday 13th December - Trinity Centre Dalston 17:30
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hackney CVS – <st1:postalcode w:st="on">Springfield</st1:postalcode>
House, <st1:postalcode w:st="on"><st1:postalcode w:st="on">5 Tyssen St</st1:postalcode>,
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Clapton, <st1:postalcode w:st="on"><st1:postalcode w:st="on">London</st1:postalcode>,
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<li>Alerts you to a renewed threat to planning regulations in the north of the Borough</li>
<li>Notifies you of the next stage of Stokey Local’s Sainsbury’s/Wilmer Place campaign</li>
<li>Informs you of the Progress of the Dalston Futures initiative</li>
<li>Updates you on plans to hold politicians to account across the borough through ‘hustings meetings’</li>
<li>Announces plans for two new locality based initiatives (in Hoxton and in Hackney Downs)</li>
<li>Gives a call our to students or others with skills they are willing to share with the community</li>
<li>Makes an appeal for donations</li>
<li>Asks you to update your records, and</li>
<li>Encourages you to share this info with others via email, twitter and facebook.</li>
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<strong>Introduction</strong><br />As we draw towards the end of a year, it is always good to look back and celebrate what has been achieved. This year we have concentrated largely on a small number of very local initiatives. We hope next year to help more communities develop local initiatives that are relevant to their area.<br /><br /><strong>Planning Watch</strong><br />For Hackney Unites, the year began with news of a very concerning, and divisive attempt to wrest democratic control of planning in the north of the borough from elected councillors and hand it to an unelected and unrepresentative ‘forum’. A substantial campaign initiated by Hackney Planning Watch, one of our founder groups, alerted the community to the threat, and saw a major victory when the council instead declared a ‘Area Action Plan’ for the area (although since then we have seen no plan and precious little action since then).<br /><br />Unfortunately, the problem has returned! We have been informed that a revised application for a ‘Central Stamford Hill Neighbourhood’ planning group has been submitted. As we enter the new year, we will be working closely with the community to ensure that this divisive proposal is rejected. <br /><br /><strong>Stokey Local</strong><br />The long running campaign against the proposed Sainsbury’s/Wilmer Place development rumbled on, with a number of wins for local people early in the year, but a shocking reversal when the council granted planning permission in August (after the developer threatened a costly appeal against an earlier rejection). The community, however, were not prepared to ‘roll over’ and put up with the heart being torn out of a conservation area, the threat to the biodiversity of Abney Park and the inevitable damage to the independent local stores. A public appeal was launched to raise £10,000 to pay for a judicial review. The money was raised and a judicial review is ongoing. The battle goes on however, as the developer has submitted a further, identical, application in an attempt to outmanoeuvre the judicial review process.<br /><br />Stokey Local is a genuine grass roots community organisation, with over 70 people regularly attending meetings. You can read their latest email here: <a href="http://stokey.lc/news3" style="color: maroon;">http://stokey.lc/news3</a> If you want to help the community in Stoke Newington, then you can sign their petition, and join them on 11 December when the latest planning application goes back to committee.<br /><br /><strong>Dalston Futures</strong><br />Inspired by the success of the summer’s Dalston People’s Festival, we have begun the work of putting together a local, inclusive group which is capable of bringing the community together. We used techniques we had learnt from the Stokey local campaign to bring people together, and the last meeting had 45 residents discussing how to build a powerful voice for the community. You can watch a short video of the event recorded by East London Lines, here: <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/?s=hackney+unites&x=0&y=0" style="color: maroon;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/?s=hackney+unites&x=0&y=0</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br /><br /><strong>What are our plans for 2014?</strong><br />Our aspirations for 2014 include organising a series of ‘hustings’ meetings in advance of the May council elections. Candidates who want our votes should make themselves available to answer our questions, and we want to use these meeting to encourage our communities to re-engage with the election process. We are actively looking for local community groups across the borough to work with us to host these meetings. If you are part of a community group that would like to play a role in empowering your community and enhancing democracy by hosting an event with local candidates, please drop us a note:<a href="mailto:hackneyunites@btinternet.com" style="color: maroon;">hackneyunites@btinternet.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Hoxton and 'Tech City'</strong><br />Hoxton contains some of the poorest and most deprived estates in the borough. It is also host to ‘Tech City’ an amazing collection of high tech companies. The difference between the wealth, innovation and energy of tech city, and the lack of opportunity that exists on estates is an affront to decency. We want to explore how we create bridges between Tech City and the surrounding estates. We are planning an innovative project that brings together the movers and the shakers from Tech City with the community that surrounds them. We hope to get training and development opportunities, as well as a commitment to ‘skill share’ with the community so that some of that technology can be put to good use supporting the community. If you live or work in the south of the borough and are interested in getting involved in a planning meeting for this project let us know. <a href="mailto:hackneyunites@btinternet.com" style="color: maroon;">hackneyunites@btinternet.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Hackney Downs</strong><br />With planned ‘regeneration’ on the Nightingale Estate, we have been approached to help establish a community group in Hackney Downs. Discussions to establish a community organisation (or link up existing groups) in the area are at an early stage, but if you are from the area and want to get involved, please let us know.<br /><br /><strong>Student give back</strong><br />We are engaged in talks with the student union at London Metropolitan University with a view to getting students living in the borough more involved in the community. Many of the students are Hackney born and bred, they are getting an education that provides them with skills that many in the community simply don’t have. We want to create an opportunity for them to ‘give a little back’ to the community that raised and nurtured them. More details to follow, but if you are a student, even if it is not at London Met, and you want to help facilitate a process by which students engage with their communities, then let us know. We need help to establish a student group committed to supporting the community.<br /><br /><strong>Fundraising</strong><br />None of our successes could take place without some financial resources. In the last few years Hackney Unites has relied on grants from charitable trusts, collections at events and donations from supporters. Our organisation could not function without our Andrea, our part-time organiser/project manager, but we often struggle to find the money to pay for her work. If you could make a donation, or make a series of smaller donations via regular direct debits, then you can help strengthen and support us in delivering against our objectives.<br /><br />If you would like to help, you can make a donation via telephone, or on-line banking:<br />our account name is Hackney Unites,<br />Unity Trust Bank,<br />Sort Code 08-60-01<br />Account number: 20245706.<br /><br />Alternatively you can write a cheque and send it to Hackney Unites C/O HCVS, 84 Springfield House, 5 Tyssen Street London, E8 2LY.<br /><br />Some of our supporters help by donating a regular sum each month. If you would like to join them, you can download a standing order form from <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cjcrqqd" style="color: maroon;">http://tinyurl.com/cjcrqqd</a> (please complete and return to us) or you can set this up via telephone banking.<br /><br /><strong>Skills share</strong><br />We increasingly need volunteers, to help us turn our vision of a well organised community into a reality.<br />For example, we need volunteers who:<ul>
<li>are prepared to put leaflet through doors</li>
<li>are willing to ask residents to give us their views of the issues that concern them.</li>
<li>have web development skills.</li>
<li>have leaflet/poster design skills</li>
<li>have experience of financial budgeting,</li>
<li>have experience of making applications to charitable trusts or other fundraising activity.</li>
<li>have skills in developing training materials,</li>
<li>are able to make short promotional films of our events (just two or three minutes long)</li>
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Well the film crew from East London Lines who recorded the event have just pasted their story and you can view it here: <a data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/1fnx8va" data-original-title="http://bit.ly/1fnx8va" href="http://t.co/AzgyTMm3ET" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible" style="visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="js-display-url">bit.ly/1fnx8va</span></span></a><br /><br />The meeting discussed the issues that Dalston people care about, and how we can build an inclusive voice that can raise community concerns in a way that cannot simply be ignored.<br /><br />At the end of the meeting, everyone agreed to take ten copies of a paper based version of our survey and get these completed before the next meeting.<br /><br />If you were at the meeting, then please let us know how you are getting on with getting them completed (email us on <a href="mailto:hackneyunites@btinternet.com" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;"><span style="color: blue;">hackneyunites@btinternet.com</span></a>)<br /><br />If you were not at the meeting and would like a copy of the paper-based survey, please drop us an email and we will forward one to you.<br /><br />In the meantime, we have been contacted both by the police and the local council, both keen to work with us. So we are already being seen as influential, a good start, but there's a lot more to do if we are to begin to be able to create change for the benefit of the community.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Next steps</span></strong><br />We have an on-line survey please visit <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Dalstonfutures" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Dalstonfutures</span></a> if you would like to take part.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our next meeting is at the Trinity Centre on Beechwood Road on Tuesday 10 December at 6.30pm (as ever we commit to finish promptly by 8pm). </span></strong>We will have a speaker on planning issues in Dalston and lessons learnt from the Sainsbury’s/Wilmer place campaign. But we will also discuss what we need to do to create a strong inclusive community group capable of exerting real influence over decision makers in the area.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How you can help</span></strong>:<br />We are encouraging people to register to attend the next meeting<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Dalstonfutures" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Dalstonfutures</span></a><br /><br />We want as many people as possible to get involved so please forward this email onto friends and neighbours. If you use twitter or facebook, then please post the following message:<br /><br />Love this video of the Dalston Futures meeting: <a data-expanded-url="http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2013/11/hackney-unites-to-shape-communitys-future/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" data-original-title="http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2013/11/hackney-unites-to-shape-communitys-future/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" href="http://t.co/dlrJIuLhbU" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible" style="visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="js-display-url">eastlondonlines.co.uk/2013/11/hackne</span><span class="invisible" style="visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="tco-ellipsis">…</span></span></a> if you want to get involved visit: <a data-expanded-url="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DalstonFutures" data-original-title="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DalstonFutures" href="https://t.co/MjAh0QkPEs" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible" style="visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="js-display-url">surveymonkey.com/s/DalstonFutur</span><span class="invisible" style="visibility: hidden;"></span><span class="tco-ellipsis">…</span></span></a> Please RT<br /><br />Inevitably this initiative has begun with just a few people, but we need more people to take on a role in helping us get organised between meetings. If you have some time, and want to get more involved, please drop an email to <a href="mailto:hackneyunites@btinternet.com" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;"><span style="color: blue;">hackneyunites@btinternet.com</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Who are Hackney Unites?</span></strong><br />Dalston Futures is an initiative of Hackney Unites, a community coalition for social justice. We are not aligned to any political party or ideology, and work when we can with people with a wide range of political views. We believe that our communities can prosper when we work together, and that if we want to see positive change in our communities then we need to work together to make that change happen rather than leaving it to someone else.<br /><br />Please forward on this email to people who may be interested. If you wan tto join our emailing list then please visit: <a href="http://eepurl.com/ETY9P" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;"><span style="color: blue;">http://eepurl.com/ETY9P</span></a><br /><br /><br />Regards<br /><br /><br />John Page<br />Secretary<br />Hackney Unites</span></td></tr>
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Last week, to our amazement over 45 local residents attended a meeting
in Dalston to create a community organisation in the area.<br />
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The meeting discussed the issues that people care about, and how we can
build an inclusive voice that can raise community concerns in a way that
cannot simply be ignored.<br />
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At the end of the meeting, everyone agreed to take ten copies of a paper
based version of our survey and get these completed before the next
meeting. If you have completed them, you can either scan or photograph
them and email them to <a href="mailto:hackneyunites@btinternet.com" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;">hackneyunites@btinternet.com</a>,
post them to the address on the form, or bring them to the next
meeting. If you were not at the meeting and would like a copy of the
paper-based survey, please drop us an email and we will forward one to
you.<br />
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<strong>Next steps</strong><br />
At the moment we are ‘listening’ to the community, identifying the
issues that people in the area feel sufficiently concerned about to want
to organise to see change. We have an on-line survey where we invite
people to tell us what issues they care about and if they want to get
involved. Please visit <a href="http://facebook.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99c9b76c358ddf0210073d98f&id=a397a50b6a&e=b000051247" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Dalstonfutures</a> if you would like to take part.<br />
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<strong>Our next meeting is at the Trinity Centre on Beechwood Road on
Tuesday 10 December at 6.30pm (as ever we commit to finish promptly by
8pm).</strong><br />
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<strong>How you can help</strong>:<br />
Speak to your friends and neighbours about Dalston Futures, and how we
are trying to build a community organisation and encourage them to join
us on 10 December. We are encouraging people to register to attend the
meeting <a href="http://facebook.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99c9b76c358ddf0210073d98f&id=e135d5470c&e=b000051247" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Dalstonfutures</a><br />
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We don’t have a leaflet for the next meeting, but we will need to
leaflet the area again. Indeed, in the future, we may need to collect
petitions door to door, so we are trying to establish a list of
supporters who will take responsibility for contacting people in their
street, or block: if you can help, please register when you complete the
survey.<br />
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We want as many people as possible to get involved so please forward
this email onto friends and neighbours. If you use twitter or facebook,
then please post the following message:<br />
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Wow, Dalston’s communities are getting organised <a href="http://facebook.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99c9b76c358ddf0210073d98f&id=a7d6097570&e=b000051247" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank">http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=99c9b76c358ddf0210073d98f&id=ecd36f00ed&e</a><br />
Please RT<br />
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More than anything, though, why not just speak to your neighbours and get them along to the next meeting?<br />
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Inevitably this initiative has begun with just a few people, but we need
more people to take on a role in helping us get organised between
meetings. In particular, we need people to visit local faith and
community organisations and discuss what we are trying to do. If you
have some time, and want to get more involved, please drop an email to <a href="mailto:hackneyunites@btinternet.com" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;">hackneyunites@btinternet.com</a><br />
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<strong>Who are Hackney Unites?</strong><br />
Dalston Futures is an initiative of Hackney Unites, a community
coalition for social justice, our member organisations include Hackney
Planning Watch, the Black and Minority Arts Network, North East London
Anti Racist Alliance, and Digs, the private sector tenants group. We are
not aligned to any political party or ideology, and work when we can
with people with a wide range of political views. We believe that our
communities can prosper when we work together, and that if we want to
see positive change in our communities then we need to work together to
make that change happen rather than leaving it to someone else.<br />
<br /><strong>Can you help us with a regular donation?</strong><br />
Hackney Unites is always exploring grant funding for our projects, but
in all honesty, it is never enough. We need local people to help with
regular donations. <br />
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We are transforming Hackney, but we need a little help. If you would
like to help, you can make a donation via telephone, or on-line banking:<br />
our account name is Hackney Unites,<br />
Unity Trust Bank,<br />
Sort Code 08-60-01<br />
Account number: 20245706.<br />
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Alternatively you can write a cheque and send it to Hackney Unites C/O
HCVS, 84 Springfield House, 5 Tyssen Street London, E8 2LY.<br />
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Some of our supporters help by donating a regular sum, between £1 - £5
per month. If you would like to join them, you can download a standing
order form from <a href="http://facebook.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=99c9b76c358ddf0210073d98f&id=42730ae076&e=b000051247" style="color: #eb4102; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/cjcrqqd</a><br />
(please complete and return to us) or set this up via telephone banking.<br />
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Many thanks for your interest; let's get our community organised!<br />
<br />
Regards<br />
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<br />
John Page<br />
Secretary<br />
Hackney Unites </td>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From shops, to schools to open-spaces the
face of Dalston is rapidly changing. In
recent years many millions of pounds of public and private money has been
invested in the area. But little of that money has found its way to local
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<span lang="EN-GB">Despite the influx of residents who can afford
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most deprived areas of the country.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hackney </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Unites
is organising a new community network in Dalston – Dalston Futures. The aim is
to ensure that local people have a voice and can influence the changes
happening in their area. We are determined to create a strong, inclusive voice
that can make a positive difference to the future of the area.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If you want to get involved in Dalston Futures then please come
along to our open meeting <span style="background: white;">(6.30pm Thursday 14
November, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">Trinity Centre Beechwood
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If you live in Dalston (or just want to help
get this initiative up and running), then please complete our survey:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://hackneyunites.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b82d5d5a7ac69045df976d76f&id=4778afba60&e=04f3db2018" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DalstonFutures</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">, attend the next meeting or volunteer to help with leaflet/poster distribution.
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peter Snell, one of the key supporters of Dalston People's Festival in July reports on some of the great activity that took place. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;">And also some of the key campaigning issues to take forward. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;">Our Dalston Futures Campaign will be addressing many of these issues - we will keep you posted. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finding a voice on the future of
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday 14<sup>th</sup> July; 2.30 pm
till 5.00 pm, The Arcola Theatre, Ashwin Street (part of Arcola’s Green Sunday)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Cllr Vincent Stops, LBH Planning Chair explained recent
planning decisions on major developments in Dalston and the modifications
achieved through the application process despite the limits within which the
Council operates. Ray Blackburn of Dalston
Conservation Area Advisory Committee wanted conservation areas extended to
cover the centre of Dalston to better protect the traditional streetscape. Bill Parry-Davies of Open Dalston used a
series of slides to show what had already been lost and what new developments
were proposed. Oliver Schick of Hackney
Cyclists explained how the redesign of Dalston Lane to increase bus flow had
created a dangerous junction for pedestrians at Queensbridge Road and created
conflicts with pedestrians near Dalston Junction station. He suggested ways in which junctions could be
made more permeable to create more direct and safer routes for cyclists. John
Thornton of Disability Backup welcomed the formal role they had now been given
in the Hackney Planning process and some achievements such as the removal of
street clutter such as A boards and tables on public pavements. He noted that bus access was now far worse
than before the changes around Dalston Junction. Russell Miller of Sustainable
Hackney warned that current planning policies failed to address the scale of
the challenge posed by climate change and the loss of biodiversity. He characterised new homes with inadequate
open space as “prison homes guarded by crippling debt”. </div>
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In a spirited discussion Ursula Huws of the Rio Cross residents
complained that current planning and licensing policies seemed to give priority
to business need over residents’ concerns. Disability campaigners were
concerned that permeability for cyclists made streets less safe for users with
disabilities. Bill Parry-Davies
complained Hackney Planners should be less scared of losing planning decision
on appeal. Vincent Stops said Hackney’s rate of success at appeals was already
in decline as Planning Inspectors ensured decisions better reflected the light
touch policies of the current government.
Dave Holland pointed out that popular protest was needed to effect long
term change in the Planning Framework within which decisions are made. Both Oliver and Ray said current management
through guidance instead of rules created a presumption in favour of
developer’s proposals. Oliver said this
was highly unusual compared with other European countries and inevitably led to
poor planning outcomes while encouraging land owners to hold onto land rather
than release it for development.</div>
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<u>Possible campaign issues<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Extend conservation area to cover the whole of
Dalston Town Centre to provide better protection for traditional streetscape.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Redesign Dalston Lane to make it more pedestrian
and cycle friendly</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Improve bus access in Dalston Town Centre</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Reduce anti-social impact of night time economy
on local residents</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Seek Council leadership of campaign for more
effective local Planning powers</div>
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Cllr. Stops then left the meeting so it could discuss
concerns about the proposals for the Dalston Cross Shopping Centre for which
there was a public consultation exhibition at the Kingsland Shopping Centre on
the afternoon of Friday 19<sup>th</sup> July and the mornIng of Saturday 20<sup>th</sup>
July. In discussion the following points were identified as needing clarification;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->How it could be described as a retail
development when the overwhelming use was to create new flats?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Why existing green space would be lost to grey
paved areas?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Why the plans did not properly fit into existing
street patterns?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->What would be done to mitigate the impact on the
existing infrastructure such as child play that was already overstretched?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->How current use of the Eastern Curve garden
could be maintained if it was turned into a public thoroughfare?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->How would the new flats will benefit local
residents space when none are at genuinely affordable rents or prices?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->What could be done to prevent flats being kept
empty as investment properties?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Why is the bridge over the railway line not on
line with St Marks Rise?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->How can Dalston take more car use from the new
parking spaces?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Artisans, designers and light industry are being
driven out of Dalston by residential conversions so how will the new
development create premises they can use?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Will the development so change the demography of
Dalston that it will kill the market?</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guided walks and discussion; reports<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Each walk started from CLR James
Library at 6.30pm <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Monday 15<sup>th</sup>, Respecting
our heritage. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Ray Blackburn, Secretary of Dalston Conservation Area
Advisory Committee led a walk around Dalston Lane, Kingsland High Street and
their back streets and talked about the history and merit of buildings in the
area. He explained the status of
existing legal protection for such buildings (listing, conservation area status
etc.) and brought to life the issues that have to be considered in preserving
our heritage. He posed the questions;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Should we preserve the relics of previous uses
such as the old entrance to Dalston Junction station?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Is it good enough to preserve the frontages of
historic buildings such as those on the south side of Dalston Lane while
completely rebuilding the rear? </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->If the missing buildings on Ashwin Street are
rebuilt should they be faithful copies of the building demolished?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Since former industrial buildings are what most
make Dalston distinctive can more be done to protect them (and such use)?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->More modern buildings (the old Library and
Kingsland Estate) are regarded as good buildings of their era. Should their protection be given equal
weight.</div>
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Throughout the walk reference was made to the views and
recommendations of the Edmund Bird Dalston heritage report produced for Design
for London. The report is available at; <a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11870147/Dalston%20Heritage%20Report%20copy.pdf">http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11870147/Dalston%20Heritage%20Report%20copy.pdf</a>.
Another source of local social conservation history based on Dalston Lane was
“The last days of London; a journey through the ruins” by Patrick Wright. Ray said local conservation area advisory
committees wanted to expand their membership and suggested participants looked
at the Hackney Society website to find out how to join their local committee.</div>
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The walk retired to the Duke of Wellington on Balls Pond
Road to consider what had been learnt.
Ray reported that LBH officers had told him they would commission their
own heritage report for Dalston in August with a view to reviewing boundaries
and strategies in 2014. The Edmund Bird report was highly regarded so it was
important the LBH report addressed the issues raised therein.</div>
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Any review should address;</div>
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Conservation Areas from development threats.</div>
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Those present;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Sought access to the Heritage Report to see if
they agreed with its suggestions</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Questioned the degree to which Conservation
Status could defend mixed use</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Said that the existence of conservation areas,
their purpose, their rules and the benefits should be better publicised</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Suggested there was scope for training
apprentices in traditional building techniques</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Conservation Area Advisory Committees should be
given access to pre-application discussions with developers.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Consultation for new developments would be assisted
by better techniques at demonstrating impact (travelling display ideas from
Hackney Wick)</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Wider engagement important to appreciation of
conservation value</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dalston’s community, particularly its ethnic
diversity, was what made it distinctive and the protection of Ridley Road
market (an option in the Edmund Bird report) was essential.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Mixed usage was important and the Council should
utilise the sites it owned to support daytime economy uses.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Developers use what is distinctive about Dalston
to attract residents but destroy it with bad developments.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Neighbourhood Planning powers had been given a
bad name by the conflict generated in Stamford Hill but we needed to understand
the value of new localism powers (neighbourhood forums, community asset listing
etc.)</div>
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Other areas of discussion beyond heritage issues were;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The need for better toilets with longer opening
hours and effective removal of food packaging waste was needed in Dalston.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Islington and Docklands had become stale and
lifeless as high rents drove out genuine local business use.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Daytime studios and workshops should build on hidden arts foundation in
Dalston which was already being forced out by high costs</div>
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Dalston. </span> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The walk started with a visit to the Eastern Curve
garden. Marie Murray explained how they
had started to develop the land over the railway cutting as part of the Making
Space in Dalston project funded by Design for London and the London Development
Agency in 2010. The cutting had originally joined the North London Line to the
line into Broadgate until that was closed in the 1950s. It was filled with
rubble topped with earth. LB Hackney
owns 30-40% of the land from the Dalston Lane entrance to the wooden pathway
that divides it from the rest of the garden.
The space had become a popular retreat for residents in nearby grey
developments like Dalston Square and a hub garden to support other community
gardens. In developing the Dalston Area
Action Plan residents had overwhelmingly supported the use of the site for a
green park but the plan had instead designated it as a corridor to a
redeveloped Kingsland Shopping Centre.
The owners of the shopping centre did own the bottom part of the site
and had agreed to loan it for the creation of the garden. Because it was not
currently used as a corridor it was a safe space for children’s activities and
effectively policed. Arcola, Bootstrap
Company, HCD, HCVS, OPEN Dalston and V22 studios had developed a strategic management
board to originally develop the site.
MUF architects were responsible for overall design, EXYST for the
pavilion design and J&L Gibbons for landscape design. Since Summer 2012 it
has been managed by a social enterprise, ‘Grow Cook Eat’ set up by Marie and Brian
Cumming, local residents who had been involved in the running of the Garden from
the start. Income for the daily opening and management of the Garden is raised
by a café, space hire and events. A number of jobs have been created but the gardening
is done by volunteers.</div>
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The group agreed that the Eastern Curve garden was part of
what made Dalston distinctive and the obvious place for the main entrance to
the new development was the passageway at the end of Ashwin Street. </div>
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Amy Janina Cooper from the Rhodes Estate joined the walk at
the Eastern Curve and explained how it had inspired new community gardening
initiatives and provided a base from which they could collect compost. Russell and Marie agreed that ideas of
establishing a formal network and advice had been replaced by informal networks
as gardeners just wanted to get on with gardening.</div>
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Amy walked the group around community gardening initiatives
on the Rhodes Estate starting at a green corridor initiated as part of a
Groundwork Transform Project pathway from Forest Road to Gillett Square. Some
residents had initially claimed the initiative might attract Anti Social
Behaviour and knives had been found concealed in bushes but the opposition had
been based more on an expectation of traditional maintenance with mown
grass. Bird boxes at the entrance to the
route were being moved following complaints from the owner of the house to
which they were fixed that he had not agreed their installation. </div>
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Despite early setbacks local engagement has grown and the
residents had now notified the Council of areas they did not want sprayed with
herbicides and were waiting for the Council to respond. Parts of the Hackney Homes had been very
helpful. While scaffolding was erected for maintenance work they had installed
rain water runoff to water buts in each of the 4 community gardens. Amy led the
visit to various community garden initiatives and explained how they had
increased neighbour engagement particularly from children. She explained how the Tenants & Residents
Association was seeking to develop the community hall to increase its value to
the community and that this might open out opportunities for the wider
community to make more use of the Multi Use Games Area. </div>
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Russell Miller contrasted the amount of green space on the
Rhodes Estate with the grey expanses of Dalston Square and current planning
applications and offered advice on developing flower meadows. Peter Snell noted the inadequacy of home
insulation works completed on the Estate (further detail on the Sustainable
Hackney website) and his ongoing attempts to sort this out. </div>
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Oliver then led
the walk to Queensbridge Road and back along Dalston Lane explaining some key
outstanding transport issues in the area:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Hackney
was the first local authority n the country where more residents (15.4%) cycle
to work than drive (12.8%), yet it was required to manage its streets to assist
commuters from elsewhere to drive through.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->There
were cycle permeability problems on the Rhodes Estate, as some gates were too
wide (designed to keep motorcycle traffic out) and some dropped kerbs were
missing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Queensbridge
Road was a problematic street and needed a street-long review to improve
cycling conditions along it. Central hatching and pedestrian islands encouraged
drivers to speed and marginalised pedestrian use.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The
redesign of the junction of Dalston Lane, Queensbridge Road, and Graham Road to
increase bus flow had not gone far enough. While it was better than what had
been there previously, it still left the junction as a disjointed space geared
too much towards motor traffic throughput.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Motor
traffic capacity had been speeded up at the Queensbridge Road junction by
banning the right turn from Dalston Lane into Queensbridge Road. The ‘official’
route for making this turn was now along
Laurel Street next to the Rhodes Estate. Fortunately, this had not
developed into a significant rat-running problem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Hackney
was thinking about removing the bus pre-signal facility before the Queensbridge
junction, as it was under-used; eastbound traffic queues there were not as long
as westbound queues.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Pedestrian
islands at the junction still featured raised kerbs to force pedestrians to
walk in a dog-leg that was intended to discourage running. The guard railing
that generally used to accompany such indirect arrangements had no longer been
installed following a change of policy, but the dog-leg was still there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->He
explained that the preferential layout for the junction was to remove the slip
roads to reduce motor traffic capacity and to create a single, unified junction
without requiring people on foot to cross in three stages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The
widening of the traffic lane to allow cars to overtake parked buses on the
eastbound carriageway had made the westbound carriageway so narrow that it caused
cyclists to ride on the southern footway outside the library. This had been a
change required by TfL. The best layout at this point was to revert to the
previous arrangement of two wide kerb lanes 4.5m each in width, which were
flexible and allowed cyclists to pass vehicles comfortably.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oliver said that
there was some work going on in Dalston Lane and that the London Cycling
Campaign (LCC) in Hackney had brought these concerns to the attention of
officers and Councillors. He was keen to work with Rhodes Estate residents to
look at permeability on the estate to increase route choice in the area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oliver is
currently writing a guide to sustainable urban design and the walk ended in
Dalston Square where he explained key background and concepts as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dalston
was one of many town centres in London which had until now been subject to a
presumption by TfL in favour of increasing motor traffic capacity there. This
had caused poor layouts such as the present one in Dalston. Oliver had been a
member of the Mayor of London’s Roads Task Force on behalf of LCC until they
had withdrawn because they couldn’t support the emerging recommendations in
full. It now appears to have set in
place a framework by means of which prominent town centres such as Dalston
could be developed with a greater emphasis on ‘place’ over through motor
traffic, so it might be possible to achieve the required changes to street
design locally. The Roads Task Force sought to maintain overall motor traffic
capacity on London’s streets through building new roads elsewhere. It contemplated a possible Paris style
‘périphérique’ ring road, possibly in
tunnels to counteract and motor traffic capacity reductions in areas like
Dalston or Elephant & Castle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->He
criticised aspects of the Dalston Square development, in particular the layout
and orientation of the square. He explained that the housing was “enabling
development”, built to finance other projects, which often caused proper
planning controls to be ignored or reduced. Dalston Square was such a
development; a grey paved wind tunnel, whose trees were dying and where all the
building surfaces were opaque including the windows, causing an unwelcoming
atmosphere. It was not a pleasant or attractive space and misconceived in most
of its aspects.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The
inexorable rise in London’s population could only be served by aligning
population density with density of activity. This in turn required the
creation, and in many cases the re-creation, of a hierarchy of dispersed urban
centres so goods, services, employment, and education were available to everyone with a reduced
need to travel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Possible Campaign issues<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Keep the Eastern Curve garden as a safe
defensible space and do not allow it to become a through route to the proposed
Kingsland development.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Redirect planning and regeneration strategies to
align population with employment and entertainment activity to minimise the
need to travel</div>
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Cultural Quarter & Evening Economy <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Feimatta Conteh (Arcola)</span></b>
noted that the site of Dalston Square had once housed the Dalston Theatre of
Varieties which subsequently housed the Four Aces and the Labyrinth Clubs. The
Arcola Theatre had indicated it would have been interested in developing the
derelict theatre if it had not been demolished to make way for the new
development. The large residential
development was already leading to complaints about noise from nearby cultural
sites like the Arcola tent. Ashwin
Street also included arts studios, and Cafe Otto as well as the Arcola
Theatres. The Council’s Regeneration
Department had supported the designation of the site for cultural use in the
Dalston Area Action. Arcola had found
that the Council’s Property Management Department had been slow and
uncooperative with supporting that goal when they had moved in. </div>
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The Arcola Theatre had been started in 2,000 by Mehmet Ergen
who is still involved in its management. It now comprised;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->A 200 seat theatre for major shows.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->An 80 seat studio theatre for more experimental
work</div>
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It runs a fringe Grimeborn opera festival every summer and a
creative learning programme comprising 2 youth groups, an academy for older
youth, and a 60+ acting group. </div>
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Policy points noted were;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->That sun surveys on new buildings should also
consider the shading impact on adjacent buildings to ensure they accurately
reflected overall impact on an area.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->That independence of cultural organisations was
an essential defence against homogenisation.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dan Beaumont, (Dalston Superstore)</span></b>,
took us to meet the owners of three diverse local bars before ending in the
basement of his new venture, Voodoo Ray to discuss the work of Dalston Pub
Watch and the Evening Economy Forum. The details of the Clubs visited, and
their owners, were as follows:-</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alibi
(Mark Schaffer)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Was set up as a collective with Real Gold who provided the
youth face of the Club which had a top end suspended dance floor, free entry, a
no guest list policy and viewed all who used it as celebrities. Staff were expected to generate use and
received a cut of profits. The owner had
moved on to establish Macbeth in Hoxton, Birthdays on Stoke Newington Road and
the White Rabbit restaurant on Bradbury Street.
A former musician he was drawn to new interests and said he was keen to
build institutions rather than earn lots of money. </div>
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Planning issues; yellow line needed across entrance to
Gillett Square from Bradbury Street as it is always blocked by parked cars.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Visions (Eddie Augustine)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The owner, had arrived from the West Indies in 1965 and
developed the Twylight Sound System from work DJing in youth clubs around
Ealing but eventually worked all around the country. He regularly visited Dalston which hosted 30
odd clubs (Dougies, Le Prison, Pier 1, the All Nations etc,) and where black businesses
could establish themselves in a way not possible in Ealing. On the back of this he developed a Visions
film business and in time developed a wedding video specialism. Visions was purchased and equipped with
multiple video displays showing the entire wedding preparations and service as
the reception dinner was served. His
traditional business had declined over the last 8 years as his mainly
Afro-Carribean clientele had been forced out of the area by high housing costs.
He had been forced to remodel the venue as a Club to stay afloat. Eddie had been required to move to a “primary
trading area” when he established the Club but now it seemed OK for residents
to move in and demand businesses like his be closed down.</div>
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Possible campaign issues; </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Reduce pressures forcing black and minority
ethnic communities out of Dalston. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Be fair to established businesses and don’t
allow newly arrived residents to close them down.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ruby’s Bar (Tom Gibson)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The owner had established an up market cocktail bar from a building
previously used as a Chinese takeaway but that had been a restaurant back in
1885 at the front of premises owned by his parents family business “Castle
Gibson ”. They had been in the furniture business until moving into the
provision of studio space to film units in the warehouses once used to store
furniture. The walk visited the studios at the back of Ruby’s bar which
attracted 20 – 150 users a day for filming and made extensive use of local
restaurants and other services. The
spaces were also used for pop up meals and similar uses which required
temporary licenses. An independent fire
adjudicator did an annual inspection to ensure they met fire safety standards.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Voodoo Ray (Dan Beaumont)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Dan Beaumont explained how he had started Dalston Superstore
with 2 partners as a queer friendly bar and felt humbled to build upon the
great traditions of venues like the Four Aces and Labyrinth. He would not claim
credit for being the first of the new wave of bars but they had arrived just as
Dalston was being recognised as a unique venue and attracting media
attention. Voodoo Ray was his latest
venue and was similar to Dalston Superstore acting as a cafe all week with a
basement music venue open Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings. An
architect designed retro interior had been nominated for awards. He believed Voodoo Ray pizzas matched any in
London and they were based on extensive field research in New York.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dalston Pubwatch & Evening
Economy Forum<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Dan talked about this network of which he has been a key figure
for some years. Key achievements were;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Establishment of additional street scene enforcement through voluntary contributions
of between £50 and £200 per month from 15 bars</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Additional street scene wardens who issue fixed
penalty tickets for antisocial behaviour, urination </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“You drink here, people live here”
awareness campaign</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Good neighbour agreement about to be ratified by
Council through which bar owners made a number of commitments which included
managing the pavement outside their venues.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Provision of free/ reduced price basement space
to arts and community groups when they were not open.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Parliamentary All Party Special Interest
Beer Group had “specially commended” Dalston Pub Watch as one of the best three
in the country in 2013. </div>
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Key concerns were;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Street drinking rather than Club use was the
real issue. How could key stress points such as John Campbell Road outside the
Rio Cinema be better managed? The
drinkers were a younger transient crowd compared with those in Gillett Square.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Need to keep pavement clear. Revellers blocked
pavements without intent and needed to be reminded to keep them clear.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Time Out/ Evening Standard publicity as a trendy
youth venue undermined interest in attracting a wider range of age groups.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Need for new image; e.g. the best pizzas/
cocktail venues/ coffee suppliers/ record shops in London. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Poor engagement of a cross section of local
stakeholders; what do we want and how do we get it/ protect it?</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Council proposals to introduce a Special Policy
Area could further restrict the issue of new licenses although may have little
effect as Police are already objecting to all applications on the basis of
cumulative impact. The danger of this approach was that it put a monetary value
on existing licenses and created an incentive for small local bar owners to
sell out to corporate interests.</div>
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Dan was disappointed that the Council’s scrutiny committee
enquiry into the evening economy had failed to come up with a proper plan to
better manage licensed premises through;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Diversifying the offer to attract a wider age
group and families.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Developing a policy for the proper management of
departures from Clubs and Bars</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Better management of pavements</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Staggering closing hours; 3.00 am is currently a
time for mass exits. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thursday 18<sup>th</sup>, Building a
shared future. </span></b> </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sara Turnbull (Bootstrap)</span></b>
walked the group down Ashwin Street to the Printhouse and summarised the
history of Bootstrap as follows:-</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Sara had been the Bootstrap Chief Executive for
one year.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->It dated from 1977 and had a 99 year lease on
the Print House signed in the early 1990s.
</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Sara was working to standardise leases towards a
common level of rent and clamp down on non payment.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The building was occupied by a variety of
support groups, creatives, freelancers and design houses listed on website.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Renting half a desk and networking was a popular
use.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->It was now generating a surplus which was going
to community projects.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The first project was Hackney Pirates – a
targeted literacy and numeracy project based in a model pirate ship which had
secured long term support and taken up a 5 year lease in the former Centerprise
building where a high end sportswear
shop would be set up on the ground floor and staffed with local unemployed
youth with disabilities.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Its latest project was Bootstrap Campus which
assisted 18-25 year olds to learn to love work.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->An active programme of work placements had found
jobs for 2 out of 3 placements placed centrally and 9 business tenants had also
taken placements.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Complaints of noise nuisance from the roof
garden had been addressed by employing an “acoustician” so that sound levels
were now automatically managed at a level which did not cause nuisance to
neighbours. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Cafe Oto had been given a long 25 year lease in
return for significant investment to set up the cafe</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--> Shared
desk space was let on a 2 week licensed basis.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Most tenancies contracted out of the Landlord
& Tenants Act.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total use; 450 tenants, 223 tenancies, and 170
organisations .</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Rent levels around £22-£24 psf</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In choosing new tenants they were assessed on
the basis of social impact and management contribution criteria</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Abbott Street premises. Bootstrap had the top two stories of
Colourworks on a 20 year lease (covered by Act) and a short lease (also covered
by the Act) with the private owner of Fitzroy House (already letting ground 2
floors but just extended to top two floors) along with the bunker, the space
above and the car par to the rear (Hackney Council owned).</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Bootstrap welcomed the redevelopment proposals
for the Kingsland Shopping Centre and were keen to develop affordable retail
along Abbott Street</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->They were keen to follow the Coin Street
development model where residents focussed on what they wanted rather than what
they opposed and worked with local cafes and bars.</div>
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Sara felt that there were two main threats to community
business survival;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Reliance on grants</div>
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Sub-market long leasing a public asset to a community
organisation in return for specified outcomes was a more robust means of
developing community capability than giving out grants. Locality was using Bristol City Council as a
best practise example of such an approach and Sara was involved with a local
network supported by Locality looking at the scope to apply such ideas in
Hackney.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dominic Ellison (Hackney Cooperative
Developments)</span></b> then led the
group to the Hackney Co-operative Development meeting room in Gillett Square
and made the following points;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The preferred pronunciation was with a hard “G”.
</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The HCD portfolio was valued at £6.5m six years
ago with most based around the square but some properties in Haggerston and on
Kingsland Road</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--> Most were
on 99 year leases with peppercorn rents agreed in 1982/3 for properties owned
by Council and regarded as too dangerous to squat following bomb damage in the
war.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Roots in Co-operative Housing movement helping
residents into co-operative enterprise were still an important motive.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Refurbishment of the north side of Bradbury
Street fully funded through mortgage finance.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Culture House was a derelict factory purchased
from previous owner and co-funded with European and mortgage finance.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Continued place making role with occupancy by
art therapy and circle design projects.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Ken Livingston adopted Gillett Square as part of
his 100 squares project.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Various outreach projects are supported for
Square users suffering from mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, often
provided in partnership with other third sector agencies as part of wider
ongoing financial investment into Gillett Square. HCD do not support zero
tolerance strategies <b><i>in isolation</i></b> if they just displace problems
and do not address causes.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--> HCD
generally offer 6 month licences for start-ups and pro-actively seek out and
provide business development support to new co-operatives.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->HCD also support staff seeking to take over
businesses when original owners retire or want to move on.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Initially established as Company limited by
guarantee but now structured as a Community Interest Company</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Entire 15 member board is Hackney based many of whom
have previously received support from HCD with 2 places kept for staff.</div>
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In discussion Sara and Dominic felt;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Hackney Business Venture was the prime vehicle
for giving business support in Hackney and did have a very wide outreach
(diversity etc) but did not give the level of detailed support provided to
tenants by HCD/ Bootstrap.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Andrew Sissons (LBH Head of Regeneration
Delivery) was often perceived as too business friendly but was successful in
getting deals, for example around local employment (90% on fashion hub
development).</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Both HCD and Bootstrap would have been
interested in the Stamford Works site but its market price had been too high to
be economic for their users. </div>
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Dominic then took the group down to Gillett Square and
explained which was which of the various buildings. He said HCD’s preferred layout of the Square
was to make the north side entirely retail/ commercial to avoid conflict with
residential use.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday 20<sup>th</sup> July, 10.00
am till midday, Developing a sustainable local economy; Presentation &
discussion, Duke of Wellington, Balls Pond Road (back room)</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cllr. Guy Nicholson, LBH, Cabinet
Member for Regeneration, </span></b>explained that;<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Council was dealing with levels of change
unmatched anywhere else in the UK and was seeking to ensure that such change
was inclusive rather than exclusive and was affordable and accessible for the
existing community.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Shoreditch had become a transformed and dynamic
area</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In the Heart of Hackney the fashion hub
attempted to bridge the gap between £1m houses one side of the railway tracks
and a deprived and young community looking for employment on the other.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Ways Into Work” used a mixture of public,
institutional and private funding to secure work for local residents in new
jobs around Aquascutum (24 jobs), construction in Shoreditch, and Tech City in
the Olympic Park. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Council was opposed to gated communities
that displaced social housing to lower value parts of Hackney but these made
the most money for developers. They
worked against sustainable communities by undermining social cohesion.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--> Locally
Labour recognised the need for more balanced and diverse communities and had
developed policies to support these goals but its powers had been limited by
the current government.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Nationally Labour did recognise the need for
more local control for example over the proliferation of betting and payday
loan shops.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Shoreditch was home to one of the UK’s largest
media companies which actively sought local sttisaff and employed over 200
people living in Hackney.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Mother London, the UK’s largest independent
advertising agency was based in Shoreditch and have been big investors in
apprenticeships along with many other
Shoreditch firms working with the Community College as the Council actively
promoted collaboration to support local unemployed into jobs. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The government changed policy to remove public
funding from affordable housing and define 80% market rents as affordable had
come at the worst possible time for ensuring local benefit from the building
boom in Dalston. It was Council policy to encourage developers to offer
affordable rents at 60% market values in order to maintain real diversity of
tenure. The building boom was happening at the same time as government had
removed capital support for infrastructure to support such developments in
areas of transport, healthcare and education provision. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Twin challenges from national government;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Reduced public controls over development</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->One third reduction in public operational
budgets + sharply reduced capital funding</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Hackney was still building partnerships around
i-city which it hoped would generate 4,000 local jobs and hoped a new
government in 2015 might generate more scope for capital investment and more
powers over high street development. </div>
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In discussion participants said;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Labour Party should have a clear public
position in favour of retaining mixed neighbourhoods and had shown a lack of
ambition in mobilising local opposition.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Transition Towns offered a model for supporting
carbon reduction targets , developing crowd funding for new projects,
supporting new entrepreneurs and increasing community resilience in dealing
with recent shocks. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Popular protests had forced developers of the
Wilmer Place Sainsburys to engage more with the community. The Council should be
more open about what it really wanted to support an evolving narrative between
residents and developers.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->During consultation for the Dalston Area Action
Plan, local residents had demanded a community engagement forum to address
development issues. The Council had
seemed to agree it but it had never happened.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Current development proposals would permanently
change parts of Hackney which would stop being a Labour Borough. Should Labour not do more to prevent such
changes, in particular by helping local children find housing locally?</div>
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In response Guy made the following points;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->After a long period of focussing on Hackney
Council management issues residents might support the Mayor in taking more of a
campaign role to deliver Labour objectives.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Developers could not be forced to participate in
pre-application discussions and some did not co-operate so community and
political pressure for such dialogue was essential.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Dalston Area Action plan did still provide
some support to the Council in preventing applications being approved on
appeal.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Section 106 procedures would be replaced over
next 18 months with the Community Infrastructure Levy and residents should
participate n the current consultation to determine how such funding should be
used.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The key Regeneration concern for the Kingsland
Shopping Centre redevelopment was that it made a positive economic contribution
to the Borough. The current proposals
demonstrate a “highly commercialised approach to maximising development value
and it shows”. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Entrepreneurial networks tend to be clustered
locally. Incubator space in Shoreditch
was commercially led but in Dalston was primarily in social ownership. There were currently 7/8,000 jobs in Dalston
and if Ashwin Street was handed to Bootstrap they could let it out in a week.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Concerns about lack of affordable housing
provision were primarily the responsibility of his colleague Karen Alcock who
was planning to hold a community housing conference. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Andrew Sissons, Hackney Council Head
of Regeneration Delivery</span></b> - then took over from Guy (who had to
leave) and focussed on issues specific to Dalston. He said that;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Increased amounts of online shopping did create
a danger that too much retail space was being created locally. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Major destination retailers had plans for how
many stores they needed to cover <st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place>
working down from a presence at four “Westfields” while taking account of existing local
provision. In a time of recession their main interest in Hackney was in bespoke
niche possibilities such as Shoreditch. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->New Dalston entrepreneurs were attracted to food
and service provision. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The current Kingsland Centre shops were viable
and affordable but there was also scope to capture some of the middle class
“retail bleed” of spending – primarily to the Angel and Westfield-Stratford.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Although “regeneration” had no planning function
it had mobilised the local business community to get an exemption from
government proposals to prevent Councils stopping commercial property being
converted to residential use. 100
Councils had applied for such exception but only 17 had been granted. Hackney had succeeded after mobilising 400
letters from business and over 2,000
signatures on the petition. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Business mutual support networks were particularly
strong in Shoreditch covering fashion, technology, PR and media with similar
design based networks developing around <st1:address w:st="on">Hackney Road</st1:address>/ London Fields. There was scope for further development of
such networks in Dalston which at the moment is under developed. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Hackney had supported various business support
initiatives such as the London Fields Design Festival, Hackney House, Digital
Shoreditch , Shoreditch Design Week and London Fashion Week. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Immediate concerns about the Kingsland Centre
development were that;</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->It focussed on maximising residential provision
on a town centre site for which the Council sought maximum appropriate
commercial provision.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Adequate consideration should be given to
address proven demand for commercial space.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->It needed to avoid a “landlocked” shopping
centre which did not feed demand for adjacent provision, particularly <st1:address w:st="on">Ridley Road</st1:address> market.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Redeveloped Council owned <st1:address w:st="on">Dalston Lane</st1:address> terraces would offer outlets
to local small and medium sized businesses especially with the current demand
for small retail spaces for food and artisan production. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--> Keeping
Marks & Spencers, Primark and Boots
was essential to maintaining footfall in the Narrow Way. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Since Hackney was home to many ethnic minority
entrepreneurs regeneration should support them in moving up the value
chain. The Hackney Shop in the Hackney
Fashion Hub was an example of what could
be done. Businesses in studios on <st1:address w:st="on">Ridley Road</st1:address> and <st1:address w:st="on">Shacklewell Lane</st1:address>
could benefit from similar support.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Council planned to use the development of
Birkbeck Mews to counter the loss of light industrial workspace and it could
provide 20-30,000 square foot of employment space.</div>
<div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo21; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Hackney was supporting the <st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">University</st1:place> of <st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename></st1:placetype>
project to repatriate manufacturing jobs from overseas.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->A particular focus of the Regeneration Team was
in maximising local employment in new developments across the Borough with 40
local jobs created in the Ace Hotel, 25 at the Aquascutum Shop, 15 so far with
BT sports on the Olympic park and many jobs in the food and restaurant
industry. A recent study by Nesta concluded that Hackney Regeneration had
helped to generate some 270 restaurant jobs for local people in the last year. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-56051017518987357262013-10-16T06:15:00.000-07:002013-10-16T06:43:45.474-07:00Dalston Futures meeting tomorrow night (Thurs) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dalston Futures</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">In Dalston developers are circling, hoping to transform the current shopping mall (Sainsbury, Matalan and the car park behind) into a massive new shopping complex, with seven tower blocks on top. The development has the potential to bring benefits to the local community, but, it could also simply create an island of privilege squatting in the centre of Dalston. The Eastern Curve Garden is already under threat, so the big question is: what benefit can this development bring to the community and how do we ensure that it potential benefit is realised? Hackney Unites, with funding form the National Lottery, is working to bring the community together and establishing a strong, inclusive, local voice over redevelopment and other issues.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">We have a Dalston futures meeting this coming Thursday at: 6.30pm at the Trinity Centre Beechwood Road E8 3DY (the centre is at the Forest Road end of Beechwood Road. </span><a href="http://hackneyunites.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b82d5d5a7ac69045df976d76f&id=2c8d88ded1&e=d3149d617b" style="background-color: white; color: maroon; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://www.thetrinitycentredalston.org.uk/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">The planning meeting will discuss results of our on-line survey, how we can begin to bring the community together and agree some practical steps (such as leaflet distribution, and organising meetings with existing community leaders across the area).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">You can help in two ways: come along to the meeting (even if you are not from Dalston, you can still help)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">Help promote the event on facebook, twitter, or by displaying a poster in a local shop, bar or community space, a poster is available for download here: </span><a href="http://hackneyunites.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b82d5d5a7ac69045df976d76f&id=842f45d746&e=d3149d617b" style="background-color: white; color: maroon; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/p4udmn3</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">If you are from Dalston then please take our survey:</span><a href="http://hackneyunites.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b82d5d5a7ac69045df976d76f&id=e4d35d5ccd&e=d3149d617b" style="background-color: white; color: maroon; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DalstonFuturesProject</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-89629700767451417602013-10-05T03:48:00.000-07:002013-10-05T03:48:28.288-07:00Interested in our Community Organising programme?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<pre><b>Next Wednesday, 9 October, Hackney Unites is holding an informal meeting
for people interested in our community organising training programme.</b>
The training is aimed at people who are socially committed, and who want
to bring our communities together to effect positive change. Whether
your objective is getting a safer school crossing, or tackling bad
landlords, the training will equip you with skills and knowledge that
can increase the potential for your hard work to reap positive results.
We don't have a blueprint, and we won't tell you how to run your
campaigns, but we will explore concepts that have helped other
campaigners, many of them developed during the American Civil Rights
movement.
The meeting which starts at 6.30pm and will be over by 8pm, will be in
the basement of Cafe Olive, 18 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16
7PL (opposite the police station)
The course is modular and can be delivered in multiple ways: either as a
series of workshops over a few weeks, or a couple of full days.
Topics that we can cover include:
* 'power mapping' (who has power in our community, are they for
us/against us/neutral and how do we shift the power),
* building power through building trust,
* developing a public narrative (the story of who we are, and what we
believe in)
* strategy and tactics (and why the difference is important)
* running a successful meeting,
* developing a communications strategy,
* organising for diversity
* 'growing our own leaders'
What we would like to do next Wednesday is agree between those people
who are interested in attending what format they would like. We would
also like to establish what the key areas are that you would like us to
cover.
Finally, we need to explore where and when to deliver the courses.
It is our hope that we can then begin the course delivery within two weeks.
If you are planning to join us, please reply to this email and let us
know you will be joining us next Wednesday.
Please feel free to invite others who you think would be interested.
Looking forward to working with you.
Regards
John Page</pre>
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<span style="color: firebrick;">Then UpRising is for you! </span></h3>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">UpRising is a leadership programme for 19-25 year olds. Our mission is to open pathways to power for talented young adults from diverse backgrounds. By developing the<b> knowledge, skills, networks and confidence</b> you need, UpRising will help you to become a leader who can transform your community for the better.</span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">UpRising is looking for talented 19-25 year olds who have an interest in making change happen in their community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">We are recruiting in East London in the areas of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney and Barking and Dagenham.</span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">Deadline: <b>Friday the 13th of September </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">We’ll put you through a nine month (part-time) skills and knowledge programme, which will include the design and delivery of social action campaign where you work with fellow UpRisers to tackle a real social issue in your area. The programme is intensive but it is also designed around you. Our sessions take place in the evening so you can fit UpRising around your work, study or other commitments.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Olatunji Atunrase, </span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Bedford UpRiser 2011-2012</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">“When I joined UpRising, I didn’t feel I had a say about what went on in my local community. Through UpRising I visited local projects and learnt about how they work. I am now a Trustee at the Bedford Open Door service, I am working as a self-employed mentor at a school, and I aim to stand as a local Councillor at the local elections.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: firebrick;"><b>Want to know more?</b></span><span style="color: #660033;"> </span><span style="color: dimgrey;">Visit our</span> <a href="http://www.uprising.org.uk/apply/frequently-asked-questions" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word !important;">FAQs page</a></div>
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We are planning the Dalston People’s Festival - a week-long celebration in Dalston the heart of Hackney. At a time with so much to cause us concern, we want to celebrate the strength of the multi-cultural community that is Dalston. Already major venues such as the Vortex, Gillett Square, the Arcola, and the Eastern Curve Garden have voiced their support. The Dalston Square residents want in, and dozens of community groups, bars, and performers are exploring what they can do to make this event a resounding success.<br />
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The festival will utilise existing community venues, spaces and networks and will be sufficiently flexible in its format to include arts, literature, spoken word, cultural, history and community events.<br />
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This is a festival for the diverse people and communities of Dalston. We want every section of the community to bring a little of their culture and tradition to the party. While the festival will be limited in its geography to the Dalston area, we will be inviting the whole of Hackney to join in, and many community groups have already expressed their intention to get involved and showcase what they are doing for the community.<br />
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One of our aims is to bring our communities together, build trust and overcome divisions at a time when, due to the economic climate, the future for many of our communities is getting darker. We want to celebrate and showcase Dalston, but we believe that in the process we will also contribute towards building stronger community links that will survive and prosper long after the festival itself.<br />
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What will the festival comprise of?<br />
Well we don’t know for sure, but if you have an idea, then let us know. Among the many ideas being explores are: live jazz in Gillette Square, folk music in the Eastern Curve Garden, outdoor cinema, a food fair, a community fair at Dalston Square, a stage with a variety of young and up and coming performers, an inter-faith forum, a community conference, showcasing a hip hop arts education project, a street parade (part carnival, part mardi-gras) a ‘street feast’, a spoken word event, film making sessions, a celebration of dance, an on-line TV channel for the duration of the festival (as well as a project to support the digitally excluded), we are also in discussion with the Hackney Brewery who are planning an open day to coincide with the festival.<br />
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If you want to know more then please register your interest: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FFYKB56<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">R Zone campaigners in Hackney</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s Stoke Newington opposed their CPZ and successfully challenged the Council on the consultation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This resulted in the process being stopped in January 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Negotiations with the Ombudsman finally determined how Hackney could lawfully continue and how the Council must avoid having nine years of CPZs torn up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically, Hackney had to rewrite the Parking Enforcement Plan and sign this off before April 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Given how highly contentious the issue is and for the need for Hackney to address parking capacity needs, it is time to lift the lid on the specific detail that allows the introduction of a CPZ </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">–</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> despite the majority of residents voting against them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The consultation process has to identify an area and it usually does so by using </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">logical boundaries</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> to establish the roads that would be inside the zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The votes are then collected and the residents are told, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the majority vote of the whole area will be the deciding factor</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Some years ago the Council decided to undertake a </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">street by street</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> analysis of the votes - to identify pockets of CPZ support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It then joined these pockets together to make new CP Zones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the Parking Enforcement Plan did not permit this and the public were never consulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When challenged, the Council removed the Parking and Enforcement Plan 2010-2015 from the website and continued joining pockets of voters together to introduce CPZs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The consequence of this behaviour is illustrated in the two maps of the R Zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The top map shows the residents</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> votes and as a consequence there is no CPZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bottom Map is of the same area but using the </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">street by street</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> analysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As illustrated, the Council ignored the middle majority and simply joined the four corners together to make a CPZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This essentially means a tiny minority can now determine the whole outcome of a CPZ area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had these pockets on either end been classified as Black Minority Ethnic (BME) or Gay or Disables or Women etc </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">–</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> then such actions would have been impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But because those who can afford to pay for parking also support CPZs and generally live closer together, this effectively means our public roads are becoming the private property of those with high disposable incomes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The legislation that permits the Council to charge a CPZ is quite clear, it must do so to alleviate congestion and must use the funds to develop, support and improve parking facilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Since the introduction of CPZ in Hackney some nine years ago, we have seen the Council remove public garages from residents in estates and roads, brick up public garages to remove them from our everyday thinking and allow multiple occupancy of residential dwellings, all of which have created parking problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Furthermore, the funds already raised from Hackney</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s CPZ have not been spent on improving car parking capacity in the borough - one need only read the balance sheets to see most of the funds are going to private contractors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This unofficial tax will see thousands of low earning families and those with multiple jobs being forced to buy a residential permit or move to cycling or public transport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a cyclist I am painfully aware that cycling is not suitable for everyone and that having two jobs and children means that public transport is simply too long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten minutes between buses adds up and can be the differences between arriving at work on time or late or being fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Likewise, a yearly residential permit of some </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">£</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">200 that rises not in line with salaries but by some other obscure measure, is likely to see families on low incomes with multiple jobs and children falling economically closer to poverty measures. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">London is 610 square meters so the idea that personal transport can simply be priced away from the general public is ridiculous, divisive and poor economics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The public highways are ours and it is us </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">–</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> the public - that should determine how we use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although that decision was taken away from the whole of Hackney on Monday, in eight months time there will be another opportunity to feedback on the Parking Enforcement Plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This is the time to ask why are Hackney residents paying for their CPZ when LB Newham allow the first car to park for free?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are we allowing our public roads and parking to become the privilege of the wealthy? And why should our pensioners or early retirees being entombed by unaffordable parking costs? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Rectory Rollers understand many of these issues and has suggested a range of alternatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They aim to join the community together (</span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:rectoryrollers@gmail.com"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="color: blue;">rectoryrollers@gmail.com</span></span></a></span></u><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">), and by using open consultations - re-write Hackney</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s Parking Enforcement Plan to reflect the majority's needs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As CPZs continue to sweep over Hackney, we are sleep walking into a world where cars and public roads are for the wealthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rectory Rollers believe that by actively engaging with the PEP in 2013, we may stop that trend and change our environment for the better.</span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Dalston
People’s Festival is scheduled to take place between 13 and 20 July and the
next edition of the Hackney Unites newspaper will be used to promote it.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Let’s Party</span></strong><br />
<span style="background: white;">On 13 July we will be launching the festival with a
‘community gathering’ at the new <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dalston
Square</st1:address></st1:street>. We will have space for community stalls
promoting your organisation, and a range of workshops. We are also planning a
‘human library’ event, where members of the public ‘borrow’ a person who
represents a particular stereotype and have a conversation with them. The
idea is to break down barriers and to increase understanding. So if you want to
help dispel myths and stereotypes, and help people see the person behind the
label, then why not volunteer to be a ‘human book’. This event will be a
celebration of the communities of Dalston in all their various manifestations.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">There will also be events organised by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Eastern</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Curve</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Garden</st1:placetype></st1:place>, and Streetfeast
so it will be a fun day in the sun and an opportunity to bring our communities
together.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">If your group wants to be part of this great event (and your
welcome so long as you are Hackney based, you don’t need to be specifically
based in Dalston) then please register your interest now.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://hackneyunites.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b82d5d5a7ac69045df976d76f&id=c7a31273c6&e=04f3db2018" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: maroon; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FFYKB56</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Let’s get our communities organised</span></strong><br />
<span style="background: white;">Of course we all want to enjoy ourselves, but our communities
face numerous challenges, so on 20 July we are bringing as many people together
as possible from across the communities of Daston to discuss concerns and
identify shared priorities. Whether it is unemployment, gangs, stop and search,
benefit cuts or redevelopment and new communities that concern you, come along
and share your concerns. We hope that we can get 100 people together with a
shared sense of purpose to create a local community pressure group that:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">· identifies issues that
are widely and deeply felt across the community</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">· over which as a
community we can have influence, and then</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">· develops a strategy to
address these issues.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">It is going to be an empowering event, and we want you to be
part of it.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But to make all this happen, we need your help, so we are
organising a planning meeting on Tuesday 14 May, from 6.30pm to 8pm at the
Trinity Centre, in <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">Beechwood Road</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">Dalston</st1:city> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">E8 3DY</st1:postalcode></st1:address>
(the centre is at the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Forrest Road</st1:address></st1:street>
end). If you can, please let us know by emailing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:Hakcneyunites@btinternet.com" style="cursor: pointer;"><span style="background: white; color: maroon; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackneyunites@btinternet.com</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">to
let us know you are coming.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hackney Unites Community Newspaper</span></strong><br />
<span style="background: white;">We already have a facebook page, people are already tweeting,
and hopefully you will forward this email on to friends and neighbours. But to
really get the message out we need to deliver copies of our community newspaper
door-to-door and through community networks.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Our free, eight page, community newspaper will report on news
from across our communities. The print run is between 25,000 and 50,000
(depending on the number of volunteers we have to distribute the paper) and it
is distributed door-to-door, as well as via youth, community and faith
organisations. If your organisation has something to say to and about the
communities in Hackney, this is the place to say it. Most articles are
approximately 200 words long (but if you want to write a loner feature, please
let us know) just tell us about your group and what it is trying </span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-41017186680930807542013-04-23T08:16:00.003-07:002013-04-23T08:16:43.160-07:00‘Let Down’ – A day of action against letting agents!<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>When:</strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> Saturday 27</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> April, 12 noon</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><b>Meet:</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> Islington Green, </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">London N1 8DU</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Join Digs,<a href="http://islingtonprivatetenants.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> Islington Private Tenants </span></a>and <a href="http://towerhamletsrenters.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Tower Hamlets Renters</span></a> on a mini-tour of local letting agents to call for…. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">An end to fees for tenants as in Scotland</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Proper regulation of letting agents</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">No discrimination against people on housing benefit</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">The action will be <strong>MONOPOLY</strong> themed, and we’ll have props and banner to give out on the day but please bring anything else you have including:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Banners/ ‘adapted’ letting agent placards</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Monopoly props like top hats and monopoly money</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Anything to make noise with!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><b>Share you Let Down story?</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><br />Do you have a bad letting agent experience you want to share? If so, please post it in the comments on the <a href="http://letdownblog.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: black;">Let Down</span></a> blog or bring it with you on the day – we’ll be gathering written testimonials and displaying them at the action. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><strong>Who are we/ worries/ questions</strong><br />This action is being organised by local people from North/East London including the private tenant groups <a href="http://hackneyrenters.org/"><span style="color: black;">Digs</span></a> (Hackney), <a href="http://towerhamletsrenters.org/"><span style="color: black;">Tower Hamlets Renters</span></a> and <a href="http://islingtonprivatetenants.org.uk/about-us/"><span style="color: black;">Islington Private Tenants</span></a>. It is part of the ‘Let Down’ campaign being led by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LondonPrivateTenantsCoallition?fref=ts"><span style="color: black;">London Renters</span></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">If you have any questions or worried about the action, please email us at <a href="mailto:hello@hackneyrenters.org"><span style="color: black;">hello@hackneyrenters.org</span></a> - we’ll be happy to call you for a chat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">For more info: <a href="http://hackneyrenters.org/2013/04/13/let-down-a-day-of-action-against-letting-agents/">http://hackneyrenters.org/2013/04/13/let-down-a-day-of-action-against-letting-agents/</a></span></span></span></span>Denis Lenihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908820836735371517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-5079499400634046222013-04-12T05:30:00.000-07:002013-04-12T05:30:08.021-07:00Dalston People's festival - get involved <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hackney Unites are pleased to announce that the dates for the first Dalston People’s Festival have been confirmed!<br />
From Saturday the 13th-20th July there will be a host of events going on around the ward. We begin the launch event taking place at Dalston Square on the 13th July 12.00pm-18.00pm. The launch will be a day of workshops, spoken word, music and stalls, celebrating the political and cultural life in Dalston. There will also be events in Dalston Square, the Eastern Curve Garden and in a former car park in Dalston Lane. If you would like a stall this can be arranged for a small fee of £10/£20, dependent on whether you want to promote your organisation or whether you want to sell food, beverages etc. Please contact either lmcallister.jones@gmail.com or andrea@hackneyunites.org.uk to discuss in more detail.<br />
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The rest of the week there will be a range of activities across Dalston. At present there is limited venue availability so if you would like to arrange a performance but need a space, please let us know. However, if you have a venue that you'd like to make available during the week of the festival, this would be greatly appreciated!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-2867084834893098522013-04-03T08:04:00.001-07:002013-04-03T08:04:06.498-07:00How Beyond a Boundary broke down the barriers of race, class and empire - by Selma James...In light of the event in Hackney to celebrate CLR, the following article may be on interest....<br />
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Fifty years ago my husband's book on cricket inspired our anti-discrimination struggles – and continues to do so to this day..<br />
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Fifty years ago, after a March as cold as the one just gone, my husband <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._R._James" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">CLR James</span></a>'s semi-autobiographical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_a_Boundary" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">Beyond a Boundary</span></a> appeared as the cricket season opened. Reviews were favourable, but none even approached the incomparable (and anti-racist) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arlott" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">John Arlott</span></a>'s, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">Wisden</span></a>, "the cricketers' Bible".</div>
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It was the almanack's centenary edition (19 April 1963), itself a national event: "1963 has been marked by the publication of a cricket book so outstanding as to compel any reviewer to check his adjectives several times before he describes it and, since he is likely to be dealing in superlatives, to measure them carefully to avoid over-praise – which this book does not need … in the opinion of the reviewer, it is the finest book written about the game of cricket."<br />
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Hard to know from this extraordinary accolade that the book could not, at first, find a publisher. In desperation, CLR asked his friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamming" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">George Lamming</span></a> if he could help. Hutchinson had not long before published Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, a great novel, and he used its <em>succès d'estime</em> to sell CLR's manuscript.</div>
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Years later I learned that it was Lamming who had named it – almost. He had proposed Beyond the Boundary, which the publisher changed to "a" for no reason we could agree with. "The" challenges all boundaries, not just cricket's – a true description of the book.<br />
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It was a book CLR had to write. He understood the game, he believed, in ways most experts did not and could not. He considered himself more scrupulous about the game's technique and how it grappled with team dynamics, skills, players' concentration and the psychological war between batsman and bowler, batsman and fielders. And he saw the game not only as it was played but as it was lived – and for West Indians that meant first of all a colonial society stratified by race and class. His unblinking description of the shades of status among cricket clubs cuts like glass.<br />
Read on here: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers?INTCMP=SRCH">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers?INTCMP=SRCH</a>Denis Lenihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908820836735371517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-30342468842684934442013-03-05T04:43:00.001-08:002013-03-05T04:43:08.831-08:00Friday April 12th 2013 Dalston CLR James Library<span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">C.L.R. James project</span></strong><br />Have you ever wondered, why people fought so hard to retain the name C.L.R. James above the new Dalston Library? If so, you will be interested in these two exciting and linked events as part of the C.L.R. James Legacy project. </span><br /><br /><span>The C.L.R. James lecture (the importance of the black vote) 18:30 to 21:00 <br /><br />BEMA in partnership with: LBH Library Services, Operation Black Vote & Hackney Unites<br /><br />A lecture followed by a panel discussion, looking at the impact, importance, patterns and relevance of the African/Caribbean vote in Hackney. The degree to which this community has achieved proportionate representation in terms of elected Councilors and the extent to which the boroughs cultural diversity has been reflected in the formulation and implementation of its policies will be examined.<br /><br />The question to be discussed is: Why vote?<br /><br />The panel will include Simon Woolley from Operation Black Vote (confirmed), a prominent local black politician and other high profile individuals.<br /><br />This will be the second annual lecture established following the successful campaign 2011 by BEMA and its partners in the community to ensure that the name of C.L.R James was retained when the library was rebuilt.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Saturday April 13 WEA 96 -100 Clifton Street EC2A 4TP</strong></span><br /><br /><span>We are proud to host the first C.L.R. James Legacy Project conference on the Life & Legacy of C.L.R. James. This free conference is organised by the C.L.R. James Legacy Project in partnership with the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). </span><br />
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<span>The conference takes place on <b>Sat 13<sup>th</sup>April 2013 (11am-6pm)</b> and will involve a day of discussions, workshop and performance around C.L.R. Jame’s Life and his relevance today. </span></div>
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<span>Confirmed speakers include Darcus Howe (Broadcaster, writer and civil-rights activist, Mike Dibb (filmmaker) and Selwyn Cudjoe (Wellesley College and co-editor of C.L.R. James: His intellectual Legacies.). There will also be contributions from Ngoma Bishop (BEMA) and Andrea Enisuoh (Hackney Unites) who led the campaign to keep the name of C.L.R. James on the local Dalston Library when the local Council threated to drop it. </span></div>
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<span>Bookings: <a href="http://clrjameslegacyconference.eventbrite.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: maroon; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://clrjameslegacyconference.eventbrite.com/</a></span></div>
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<span>Please see attached flyer for more information – though more speakers and participants are being confirmed all the time. If you want to be involved in some way then do please email <a href="mailto:andrea@hackneyunites.org.uk" rel="nofollow" style="color: maroon; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">andrea@hackneyunites.org.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Holding the mandate of 300 signatures, a petition signed by residents that opposed the CPZ, he explained that the process was flawed as the council failed to follow: The Councils Constitution, Mayors Delegated authority, Scheme of Delegated Authority, Parking & Enforcement Policy (PEP and amended August 2011), Case Law - The Sedley Test / Gunning Principle, Consultation Charter, Consultation Guidelines, Equal Opportunities Policy, Traffic Management Act 2004 and Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales), etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In responding to the deputation, Cllr Demirci acknowledged that the process had been, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">a right cock up</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, but intriguingly went on to defend some of the practises as, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We analyse consultation responses road by road and have done so for the past 9 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every CPZ consultation we have done to date, we have done so in this way.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Furthermore, when the Cllr went on to dismiss R Zone</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s signed petition as, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The council does not accept petitions as we can not verify what was said to residents to obtain those signatures</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">…</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> a statement that went unchallenged by the meetings</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Chair, this suggest serious concerns with how Cllr are representing their constituents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, this statement undermines the fundamental principles of England</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s entire democratic process - as signing a petition is a tool for the ordinary person to speak to their government when all other channels have been made unavailable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In recognition of the cock up, Cllr Demirci did suggest undertaking a further consultation of 21 days, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I will provide another 21 day consultation to all residents asking whether they want a CPZ, providing them with proposed timings and costs</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">…</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> and this will give residents another opportunity to have their say on whether or not to adopt the proposed CPZ.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Although the stand down was welcomed, it appears these actions are both unprecedented and they also appear to fall outside of the Parking Enforcement Plan (PEP) and the consultation</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s official processes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact a further consultation would merely reaffirm one of the many alleged failings Mr Malcolm had already put to Cllr Demirci.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Victoria Park</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s CPZ consultation also appears to be on hold and like relationships within the R Zone, that consultation has also driven a wedge between the thriving community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Business owners and residents appear in disagreement into how to manage their car parking capacity needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that case Hackney council undertook public meetings in but then failed to have any mechanisms available to capture residents</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> opposition to the CPZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In summary, that meeting presented as a public relations exercise with the sole aim of selling the CPZ to the area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Although vehemently denied by Hackney - that CPZ are simply a money making venture, it appear that when challenged to explore alternative parking capacity tools, Cllrs claim the CPZ process dictates that such discussion cannot be held while a consultation is underway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These legal arguments continue to obstruct residents from discussing the range of other capacity tools that are available to manage parking capacity which means their decisions to elect for a CPZ may be because they believe there is no alternative. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">What is clear is that the R Zone campaigners are made up of a caring bunch of individual residents and business owners who genuinely want to address parking capacity; however, there is also a growing awareness that CPZs should only be used as a last resort and only after the other parking capacity tools have been applied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">For example, it may well be that opening the underground car park in the R Zone area - where it appears there are about 30 to 60 parking spaces, this would ease both Jenner and Benthal Road</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s parking pinch point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly turning Jenner into a one way with diagonal parking would also increase the road</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s capacity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">An awareness that a minority of residents are completely fed up with not being able to park close to their home, has seen the R Zone campaigners organising a community </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Pow Wow</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This meeting is intended for all residents to hear about the range of alternative parking capacity tools that are available to R Zone residents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given that Hackney has had nine years of implementing CPZ on an allegedly </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">cocked up</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> process, other Hackney residents from other areas may also wish to attend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Pow Wow aims to explore how to change the paying CPZ into a system that directly improves the community</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">s relationships with cars and parking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pow Wow meeting date and time will be posted on lamp posts in the area as well as being advertised on their facebook page: R Zone against CPZ </span></span></div>
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HUsDenis Lenihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908820836735371517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-83948826044825231182013-03-01T05:43:00.003-08:002013-03-01T05:43:50.591-08:00Haggerston Pool Ideas Meeting - 7pm on Thursday 7th March at the VLC Centre..<strong>Haggerston Pool Ideas Meeting - 7pm on Thursday 7th March at the VLC Centre, 151 Whiston Road, next door to Haggerston Pool E2 8BN<br /></strong><i>For anyone who doesn't know this building - there are some pictures here <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Haggerston-Pool/136728543014315" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Haggerston-Pool/136728543014315">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Haggerston-Pool/136728543014315</a> </a></i><br />
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Unfortunately, due to the recession, the Council has had to abandon its plan due to refurbish Haggerston Pool and create a Health and Wellbeing Centre. This was to have included a hydro-therapy pool, GP surgery, dentist, gym and sports centre. The pool building has been mothballed. They have no current plans for its future.</div>
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<i>So - we have set up an IDEAS meeting.</i></div>
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The aim of the meeting is to share ideas about alternative ways that the pool could be reopened in difficult financial times, yet in an area which has changed significantly since the closure of the pool 13 years ago. Jonathan McShane who is Hackney Council cabinet member for leisure, and a Haggerston Cllr, will be there to explain the current situation and to answer questions about the building, <br /><br />But the main part of the meeting will be to discuss what ideas, contacts and skills we have between us - and the support for the pool's re-opening</div>
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We hope to see you there. Please get in touch if you'd like some more info in advance. </div>
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Best wishes, Liz</div>
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Denis Lenihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908820836735371517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-78732510763433431992013-02-26T04:00:00.000-08:002013-02-26T04:00:36.019-08:00Dalston People's Festival: Planning meeting on Thursday (be part of it)On Thursday at 7pm we will be holding the third planning meeting for the Dalston People’s Festival at the Trinity Centre in Daslton (Beechwood Rd, London, Greater London E8 3DY). The Centre is towards the Forest Road end of Beechwood Road....<br />
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<br />Denis Lenihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908820836735371517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658776708788303692.post-28447178565457402872013-02-26T03:30:00.000-08:002013-02-26T03:30:51.437-08:00Open workshop 13th March 7-9pm: how to improve Hackney's Streets<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Canal & River Trust and London Cycling Campaign in Hackney are working together because the Regent’s Canal towpath has become heavily congested. Canal & River Trust is working to help improve the streets surrounding the canal for cycling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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meeting is bound to have a celebratory feel after the government dropped plans
to remove Mary Seacole and</span> <span class="ecxst">Olaudah
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Come along and celebrate the victory – but also take part in an important discussion
about education, black history and the national curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">Mary Seacole: The Black <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florence</st1:place></st1:city>
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<span style="background: #F6F6F6;">Led by TUC Race Equality Officer Wilf Sullivan.</span>
Panelists include Hackney Councilor Patrick Vernon OBE, Poet and Trade Union
activist Zita Holbourne & Operation Black Vote Director Simon Woolley.</span>
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<b><span style="background: #F6F6F6;">Where:</span></b><span style="background: #F6F6F6;"> Dalston C.L.R. James Library, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">Dalston Square</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">Dalston</st1:city>,
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<b><span style="background: #F6F6F6;">When:</span></b><span style="background: #F6F6F6;"> Tuesday 12th February, 7.00-9.00pm</span><br />
<b><span style="background: #F6F6F6;">Info & booking:</span></b><span style="background: #F6F6F6;"> enisuoha@tssa.org.uk</span><span class="ecxst"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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