Liveable Crouch End – Stakeholder Forum / Timetable / Guidelines
A brief report on the recent Liveable Crouch End Stakeholder meeting but with a wealth of attachments. Minutes of the Stakeholder meeting This note is prompted by the Liveable Crouch End team’s distribution of the minutes of the first stakeholder
Continue ReadingLibrary books? CDs, DVDs, USBs – or is the future health checks and community choirs
The future of the library, both as a physical institution and as a concept, is now increasingly subject to challenge. Some of those challenges come from the rapid changes in the way we can store and distribute information. Books were
Continue ReadingCENF Transported at the Christmas Fair
The Forum had a stall at the Crouch End Festival Christmas Fair recently, and had a fine day, meeting and engaging with very many visitors, from Crouch End and around. Our theme for the day was Transport, inspired in part
Continue ReadingMiddle Lane Planters to be retained – New New Road planter to be introduced
Toby Bowden has sent through updated drawings (23rd November) for the new proposals. (Zoom in on your phone, or right click on a computer and open image in a new tab, to see more detail) New Road proposal Middle Lane
Continue ReadingWe’re gonna get lit up when Haringey fixes the problem
This is a nostalgic blog about recycling and problems. Problems It is surprising how much pious claptrap you can find about problems on the internet, just take a look at these images. Let’s hope I don’t make the same mistake.
Continue ReadingHave you always wanted to be in a group? – join the Crouch End Police WhatsApp
The local police force is setting up a series of WhatsApp groups. WhatsApp is a messaging system which supports communications between individuals and across groups. Operating Systems permitting the App is available on smartphone, laptop, desktop and tablet computers. Some
Continue ReadingHornsey Town Hall and Civic Square under the Stewardship of FEC
A letter to the Assistant Director of Planning , Haringey The chair of the Neighbourhood Forum has written to Assistant Director of Planning at the London Borough of Haringey about the plans revealed so far for Hornsey Town Hall. This
Continue ReadingEnvironment – Which of Crouch End’s Parks/ recycling bins do you use? Should there be more trees?
The Evidence Base As a representative body the Forum must base its actions, and eventually the Neighbourhood Plan, on evidence. Mainly this evidence comes from statistical sources. The Office for National Statistics provides a wealth of data, much of it based
Continue ReadingDevelopment Management Forum and the Conservation Area.
Much of central Crouch End is a Conservation Area (an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance). For more details on what this means, and which streets
Continue ReadingUnprecedented scenes at our Annual General Meeting
AGM 2017 We had a very successful AGM on March 5th 2017. It was our second, and all the lessons we’d learned from the first showed in the quality of the occasion. The venue was the wonderful Supper Room in
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