Finsbury Park & Stroud Green Neighbourhood Forum

edited March 2017 in Local discussion
Long-term readers will recall that the subject of Neighbourhood Forums crops up here occasionally.<br><br>As defined by the Localism Act, a Neighbourhood Forum is an officially-recognised local forum consisting of councillors, businessmen and local activists. It works within a defined Neighbourhood Area the boundaries of which must be carefully justified. The Neighbourhood Forum can then produce a Neighbourhood Plan which has to be passed by a local referendum. This plan can allow local communities to shape their planning law in regards to shops, streetscaping, new developments, conservation rules and so on.<br><br><a href="http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/3525/10-second-stroud-green-survey/p1">We once had a decent stab at defining Stroud green's borders</a><br><br>We <a href="http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/5791/do-you-know-where-you-live-stroud-green-crouch-end-hornsey">renewed that debate</a> when Crouch End did some research for their own (now Haringey-approved) boundary.<br><br>Following the Finsbury Park regeneration conference last year, a steering group has been formed to discuss founding a Finsbury Park Neighbourhood Forum. Predictably, I'm involved. One of our first tasks is to determine what the Neighbourhood Area should be. And one of the key questions to answer is:<br><br>Should Stroud Green have it's own neighbourhood forum, or should it share one with Finsbury Park? My own view is that when it comes to planning needs Finsbury Park is quite redevelopment/regeneration-focussed, whereas Stroud Green is more conservation-focussed, and so separate forums would be wise. I don't feel overwhelmingly strongly about this, though. What do you think?<br>

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