Skateboard ramp saga update. It has now vanished.<br><br>I had checked it out a few weeks back and it could quite easily have been patched up with the damaged base sheet cut out and a replacement metal sheet fixed to the base. <br><br>Metal ramp surfaces are far from ideal, although perfectly useable, and this would have been a real patch up job, but it would have also been a simple and safe cost effective remedy, which with a load of builders on the site would have been easy to achieve and probably taken an hour and cost £250 tops in materials. It would also have meant that Islington kept its sole skateboard facility.<br><br>I was going to email the council to suggest this, but while inertia struck the whole thing has now been removed. <br><br>Still I guess simple cost-effective solutions aren't how life works nowadays.<br><br>New school looks good though.<br><br>And as Miss Annie says where are the totem poles?<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b>Saturday 17th November 12-<font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt; "> 4</font> </b></font>when Ashmount says Goodbye. It's shaping up to be an afternoon to remember as we look forward to welcoming staff, pupils, parents, friends past and present to share memories and celebrate 55 years of Ashmount School at Ashmount Road. We've got entertainment from our music teachers' Jazz Band, the fabulous Mr Marvel and from 2.30 'The Sounds of Ashmount' as our children take centre stage and perform for us from Nursery to Year 6 with a fabulous finale that will leave us all teary eyed! So make sure that you have the date in your diary - flyers and posters will be sent out soon, but in the meantime if you know anyone who has been associated with Ashmount then make sure they know to come along.</span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; ">In the event the meeting was well attended -there were about 50 people there.<br><br>There was quite a wide ranging discussion, of which notes were taken to make sure points do not get lost. The sort of things people brought up were:-<br><br></p><ul style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 2.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; display: list-item; ">There was a request for information on what employment opportunities there had been for local people on the site.</li></ul>(To which the answer was that Wilmott Dixon the contractor was bound by an agreement with Islington Council to source workers as far as possible from the neighbourhood and had done so.)<br><br><ul style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 2.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; display: list-item; ">Parking & traffic monitoring will be important when site opens.</li></ul>(The practical point being that until the site starts being used we cannot say for certain what the pattern of traffic will be. So far as Ashmount is concerned, relatively few parents currently use cars to get their children to school at the current site at Ashmount Road, off Hornsey Lane. As the majority of current parents live either the same distance to both sites or closer to Crouch Hill Park this is unlikely to change. There will (continue to) be a school travel plan which will discourage car use.)<br><ul style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 2.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; display: list-item; ">A ‘good neighbour’ request for a launch or open day to see the new facilities and start using them.</li></ul>(There will, certainly be an open day, or days, once the Cape and School have moved in; the council will also probably organise a special reception/open day for the immediate neighbours of the park in recognition that they have had to put up with some, unavoidable disturbance from the works)<ul style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 2.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; display: list-item; ">When will park be open to public?</li></ul>(By the second half of January)<ul style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 2.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; display: list-item; ">Several comments on detail of Community Access & Management Plan, annual review welcomed.</li><li style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 2.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; display: list-item; ">Update on a proposal for a "Friends of Crouch Hill Park" welcomed.</li></ul></span>
The skate board ramp is being reinstated, extract from an email from Islington Council:<div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">We have just been notified by the contractors that the skateboard ramp for Parkland Walk will be delivered and assembled this coming Monday 27th January. I will be on site on in the morning just in case any concerns arise during the construction."</span></div>
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