New Park for the Area - Crouch Hill Park

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  • 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>
  • Mr Marvel sounds good.
  • Well I enjoyed myself anyway...afraid I still have not found out about the totem poles...
  • <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I am writing to tell you about a residents meeting on 27 November 2012 at 7pm. The meeting will take place at:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Ivy Hall Community Centre</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Holly Park Estate</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Crouch Hill </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">London N4 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The purpose of this public meeting will be to advise residents of the revised timescales and plans for the buildings to open in January 2013.   There will be an opportunity for questions.   Issues that we may be requested to comment on are:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Construction work at the weekends</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Community use of the new buildings.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Tree planting in the new park.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">A Willmott Dixon representative will be available to discuss the construction works. The meeting will be chaired by Cllr Richard Watts.  Jeremy Corbyn will attend if voting schedules permit.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Kate Cornwall-Jones</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Project Manager, BSF Team</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Childrens Services</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Islington Council</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">3rd Floor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">7 Newington Barrow Way</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">LONDON N7 7EP</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">t. 020 7527 5831</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">e. kate.cornwall-jones@islington.gov.uk</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">m. 0777 329 4147</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">w. www.islington.gov.uk</div></span></font></div>
  • edited December 2012
    <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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