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Welcome to the Leswin Area Residents Association (LARA) November newsletter 2011
LARA Spring Newsletter 2012
Welcome to the Spring 2012 LARA newsletter.
The LARA quiz night - Thanks to everyone who came along to the
LARA quiz night in February at the White Hart it was a full house and a great
night. Due to popular demand we will be hosting another quiz night in October
and will keep you posted on that. We might have to look for a bigger venue as
its reputation grows and the neighbourhood competition heats up!…maybe we
should even get a trophy! You can see photos from the last quiz posted on the
LARA website - http://laran16.blogspot.co.uk/
The LARA Lunch - We
have our 3rd annual summer picnic which now has been confirmed to
take place on Sunday September 16th in the
gardens of the West Hackney Recreation Ground. This year we are running the
event alongside the Hope not Hate great British street party campaign. Nothing
to do with the Olympics and nothing to do with the Coronation you will pleased
to hear! The event kicks off at (12.30 - 4pm) There will be events
throughout the afternoon for the children and the adults including the
LARAlympics more information to follow! Put the date in your diary. Everyone is
invited to the LARA Lunch – its completely free. Bring something delicious to
eat, drink and share. Meet your neighbours and spend a lazy Sunday afternoon
together.
Updates
on current issues in the area are as follows:
- Since complaints were made about the Mount Strive nightclub LARA had a meeting with the manager and he has since kept up his efforts to make people leave quietly. Informing his doorman as well as putting up signs outside the venue.
- Café Mostra late license application was denied on similar concerns to late night disturbances. LARA have been in discussions with the management advising that they apply for temporary licenses for special events. Café Mostra have a wealth of activities taking place there over the summer so please visit their website or the venue for more information.
- One of the neighbours has raised concerns of an uneven footpath on Bayston Rd on the corner of Tyssen rd, which is causing difficulties with elderly residents. LARA has sent a letter to LB Hackney streetscene to address this problem and we will let you know when we get a response.
- The Wilmer Place developers are back! After their initial proposal to develop the Wilmer Industrial Estate into a Sainsburys supermarket faced much local opposition last autumn they have now announced their revised scheme and have contacted LARA to arrange a meeting with residents to brief them on their new proposal. This meeting has been scheduled for June 12th 2012. More news to follow, please check the LARA blog for an update … There will be a public exhibition of the revised proposals available to view on site at 195 – 201 Stoke Newington High Street on May 29th from 12pm to 8pm.
- LARA attended the 2nd May CAP (Community Advisory Panel & the police Safer Neighbourhoods Team) meeting, and contributed to set the priorities for the local community police for the next three months. The police acknowledged that muggings around the Brooke Road and Bayston Road area are a serious concern and it was set as one of their three priorities, the other two priorities for the local community police are: cycling on pavements and drink and disorderly behavior. The local community police also informed us that they are bidding for resources so that they can patrol the area until the early hours of the morning.
Events & dates for the diary:
LARA
community summer picnic – Sunday 16 September 12.30 – 4pm.
LARA quiz night –10th October at the last meeting
AGM meeting – October 17th, 2012; venue
TBC
The
Flicker Club presents Thursday Night Cinema at
Stoke Newington Town Hall - Thursday 24th May, doors 7pm & reading and film
8pm. Next film is Dog Day Afternoon.
More info and tickets here: http://bit.ly/IJK4LU
The
Chocolate Factory Open Studios Open weekend is the 30th June / 1st July - 11AM-6PM
... Come and meet local artists and designers - see what's new and bring the
whole family! Private view is Friday 29th June 6.30-9pm
Farleigh Place,
N16 7SX
Benthal
Primary School Fair - Saturday 7th July 1.30-4.30pm
Jubilee
School summer fair is on sat 30th June - 12.30 to 4pm
LARA is a
residents' association of local people who get together on a voluntary
basis to discuss neighbourhood concerns such as traffic, safety, planned
developments as well as organising celebrations and community events. Find out
more about LARA here http://laran16.blogspot.com/.
LARA covers
approximately Leswin, Bayston, Darville, Batley, Tyssen and Hollar Roads,
Glading Terrace, Leswin Place and the houses on Brooke and Evering Roads that
back on to the ‘square’. (See map attached).
Welcome
to the Leswin Area Residents Association (LARA) January / February newsletter
2012.
Happy New Year to all Leswin Area residents. We hoped you enjoyed the
festive season. The January and February months are always a bit of a come down
after Christmas so we have decided to try and raise everyone’s spirits by
hosting a LARA quiz night fundraiser
upstairs at The White Hart. The event takes place on Wednesday February 1st
and is open to all LARA residents and friends. Bring a house team along or just
bring yourselves and teams will be arranged on the night. We hope it will be a
fun way to meet fellow residents and join in with a spot of friendly
competition. See more details below.
Current issues brought up at the last committee meeting are as
follows:
Residents
Safety Issues - LARA attends Community Advisory
Panel (CAP) meeting with local police to put forward our residents concerns on
safety in the area. We now have a representative in the panel Anne Towndrow. In the January
meeting on Wednesday 11th the Safer Neighbourhood's Police team set as one of
its three priorities for the next three months the growing number of muggings
in and around Brooke Road and Bayston Road, as well as the growing number of
dangerous cyclists on pavements in the High Street. Tackling
anti social behavior along the High St and Church St was also set as a
priority. They will also patrol Leswin Place more often
where young adults and adolescents are hanging out and disturbing the
neighbours.
COMMUNITY ADVISORY
PANEL - If you'd like to help set the priorities for the police's
Safer Neighbourhoods Team , why not come along to the Stoke Newington Community
Advisory Panel ( C A P ) which is attended
by residents, council officers and the Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
The next meeting is at 7.30 p m on Wednesday 13th March at :
Yorkshire Grove Community Hall
Yorkshire Grove Estate
Gunstor Road
N16 8HF
If you can't attend the meeting you can still give your views
online by going to StokeNewingtonCentral.snt@met.police.uk and
completing a short survey or send your safety concerns to
LARA's email lara.n16@googlemail.com and we will raise them for you so that they are set as priority
for the Safer Neighbourhood Team!
Traffic
Calming Works to take place in Leswin Area –
After concerns for road safety were raised by LARA, Hackney Council have
proposed traffic calming measures to take place in our area - well done LARA!
Information on proposed changes was circulated last week. For more information
you can check the LARA blog.
Together For Transport - is running a campaign to keep Hackney
Stations Staffed. A government report is recommending to close ticket offices
at Hackney Wick, Homerton, Rectory road Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington
Stations and cutting ticket office staff at Hackney Central, Dalston Kingsland
and Clapton. Visit their website for further information on this threat
and for finding out how to get involved in the campaign against this proposal.
www.togetherfortrnasport.org.
The next public meeting is on Tuesday 28 February 6:30 at Homerton
Library, Homerton High St. London E9.
LARA
PUB QUIZ + RAFFLE - Upstairs at the White
Hart. 69 Stoke Newington High Street, N16. Wednesday 1st February 2012. 8.00pm
start. £2 entry
Make up a team of friends and become Brain of Stoke
Newington.
Fun! Pub grub! Competitiveness! Prizes! Meet and beat your
neighbour!
Fundraiser for LARA (Leswin Are Residents’ Association).
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Date
for next committee meeting: Monday 27th February.
Current local events that we have been notified
about are as follows:
West
Hackney Recreation Ground inaugural meeting -
The inaugural meeting of the User Group will be held on 30th Jan. Please see
attachment for more information. Job Description for the project development
officer in place, will come through London Borough of Hackney.
The Farmers Market – The
UK’s only all-organic weekly farmers market is now back on the High Street
outside St Paul’s Church. Saturdays 10-2.30pm.
Interactive School of
Language and Drama is in the process of establishing a drama society
that we think would be of interest to local residents. The school’s adult drama
classes are starting again at Café Mostra. For further details please visit www.islad.org.
Theatre Skills
Tuesday,
6.30 to 8.00
Voice and Accent Reduction
Tuesday, 8.00 to 9.30
Physical Theatre
Wednesday,
7.00 to 9.00
Classes will start on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 January and
run for 10 weeks
Remember to check out our blog at www.LaraN16.blogspot.com
While we are lucky enough to live in a relatively safe neighbourhood, if
and when someone in the neighbourhood needs some help, advice and / or support
LARA is here as an association that can help put residents in touch with the
relevant local contacts.
We are still keen on getting as many of the residents signed up to this
newsletter as possible so at least the majority of the people in the area are
aware of current issues that are being discussed in the neighbourhood, whether
this is to do with planning developments in the area, any local crime /
nuisance issues and of course more positive aspects such as local exhibitions,
local public celebration events etc. If you have friends in the area who are
yet to sign up please encourage them to do so at lara.n16@googlemail.com.
I hope you find our updates helpful and informative and if you have
something to add please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Hopefully we will see you at the Quiz night.
LARA Committee.
Welcome
to the Leswin Area Residents Association (LARA) December newsletter 2011.
Christmas greetings to all Leswin Area residents. We hope you are
getting in to the Christmas spirit? I hope you find our updates helpful and
informative and if you have something to add please do not hesitate to get in
contact with us.
Current issues brought up at the last committee
meeting are as follows:
· Sainsbury’s campaign: Following a wave of protest, Sainsbury’s and developer Newmark Properties have announced they
are not going to submit their original plans for a giant supermarket in the
heart of Stoke Newington. Instead, they are going to hold a second ‘public
consultation’, before submitting revised plans.
Our concern, of course, is that the revised plans will just be more of
the same with a few tweaks. So along with Stokey Local (whose campaign LARA has
joined), we will be calling for a genuine consultation, keeping a close eye on
developments, and will keep you posted.
· West Hackney
Recreation Ground Project has their inaugural Annual General Meeting on Monday
January 30th at St. Paul's Church Hall. 7.30pm start. Everybody
welcome.
· A
complaint was raised to us about excessive noise coming from customers leaving
the Mount Strive nightclub on a number of occasions this month. On behalf of
LARA we sent a letter and met with the nightclub owner and are pleased to say
we had a constructive and cordial meeting. The owner stressed that he had put
some nights on recently that brought in a younger audience and had received
complaints about noise of customers leaving the club on these nights. He also
had other difficulties with these young customers and has decided from now on
to only put on nights aimed at an older clientele. Also he has agreed to get
his doormen to encourage the customers to leave quietly. Lets hope this reduces
the noise problems. Only time will tell. Meanwhile a
recent license application has been put forward by Cafe Mostra to extend their
licensing hours to 2am on Friday and Saturdays. Café Mostra is close to the
Mount Strive nightclub on the corner of Tyssen Road and Stoke Newington High
Street. Find out more here:
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· Another
issue raised this month was a scam involving a
stocky-looking guy in a high-viz jacket knocking on a residents door,
apparently rather agitated, he said he was doing some work on the high street
and they had gone through a gas pipe and didn't know how many houses were
affected. The resident was asked to run the tap to check the gas supply was OK?
The resident went down to the kitchen and did as he asked. By the time the
resident got back to the door, having shouted back that the gas was fine, he
was gone. And so, as it turned out, was the resident’s iPhone. While this may
be an isolated event LARA recommends you request ID from anyone who comes to
your door in these situations and to not leave your door unattended to
strangers.
· Join
forces to protect Hackney’s local railway stations from staffing cuts. There is
a public meeting, organised by Hackney Unites on Monday 12 December, at 6.30pm at the Old Fire Station, 61 Leswin Road
N16 7NX.
This will be an opportunity to hear about the
government’s ‘McNulty Report’ and its recommendations which if carried through
will see the closure of ticket offices at six of the borough’s railway stations
and reductions at a further three (the government is also planning above
inflation fare increases). Bring your friends and bring your ideas about how we
can create a voice for passengers in the borough.
The meeting is supported by the N16 Magazine: http://www.n16mag.com/news/latest-news/974.html
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LARA’s
next event and fundraiser: A quiz night held at The White Hart on Wednesday 1st
of February. More details to follow but please get it in your diary it would be
great to see you there. Everybody welcome.
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Date
for next committee meeting: Monday 5th January.
Current local events that we have been notified
about are as follows:
William
Patten School Winter Fair - Saturday 11th December
from 12.30 - 3.30pm
The Farmers Market - relocated
to West Hackney Recreation Ground whilst the Christmas Tree Shop is in full
swing, but will be back on the High Street in January.
They will have a special Christmas market on Thursday 22nd December
3pm-6pm.
If you fancy a bit of Carol
singing - St. Paul's Church is having a carol service on Sunday 18th
December at 6.00pm
Christmas Market at
Stoke Newington Town Hall held on the 10th and 11th of
December from 11am-5pm.
The Hackney Proms –
Elements of surprise (featuring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons). Sunday 18th
December at 11.30am. More information about the programme, tickets and
transport at www.hackneyproms.co.uk
Remember to check out our blog at www.LaraN16.blogspot.com
LARA blog + tradespeople directory:
Please be sure to check our website / blog which is updated with any
relevant events as and when we hear about them and if you have something to add
please get in touch.
We are still in the process of putting together a helpful directory of
local tradesmen that have been recommended by residents, which could be helpful
to you, should you need some work on your house. Please get in contact if you
want to recommend anyone.
While we are lucky enough to live in such a relatively safe
neighbourhood, if and when someone in the neighbourhood needs some help, advice
and / or support LARA is here as an association that can help put residents in
touch with the relevant local contacts.
We are still keen on getting as many of the residents signed up to this
newsletter as possible so at least the majority of the people in the area are
aware of current issues that are being discussed in the neighbourhood, whether
this is to do with planning developments in the area, any local crime /
nuisance issues and of course more positive aspects such as local exhibitions,
local public celebration events etc. If you have friends in the area who are
yet to sign up please encourage them to do so.
Until next time and Happy New Year.
LARA Committee.
Welcome to the Leswin Area Residents Association (LARA) November newsletter 2011
As
I am sure you are aware we put a letter through everyone's door in the
Leswin area over the last few weeks encouraging residents to sign up to
this newsletter. We would like to offer a warm welcome to everyone who
has joined in the last few weeks. I hope you find our updates helpful
and informative and if you have something to add please do not hesitate
to get in contact with us.
We
are also keen on getting as many of the residents signed up to this
newsletter as possible so at least the majority of the people in the
area are aware of current issues that are being discussed in the
neighbourhood, whether this is to do with planning developments in the
area, any local crime / nuisance issues and of course more positive
aspects such as local exhibitions, local public celebration events etc.
If you have friends in the area who are yet to sign up please encourage
them to do so.
While
we are lucky enough to live in such a relatively safe neighbourhood, if
and when someone in the neighbourhood needs some help, advice and / or
support LARA is here as an association that can help put residents in
touch with the relevant local contacts.
Current issues brought up at the last committee meeting:
- LARA’s next event and fundraiser: A
quiz night held at The White Hart. Date TBC but agreed to be sometime
in January 2012. Everybody welcome. More information to follow.
- Sainsbury’s campaign (Jamie):
LARA has now joined the campaign to attempt to stop a new Sainsbury
being built behind Stoke Newington Church Street; no update on Planning
Application to date.
- LARA traffic update (Andrea):
Checking status of proposal to introduce a 20mph zone in the Leswin
Area. Awaiting response from consultation with Hackney Council and TfL
with regard to issues raised by LARA in the past; Pressure has been put
on TfL and LBH to address matters raised. We will update everyone when
we get more information on this.
- West Hackney Recreation Ground (Jim – WHRG User Group): Jim gave an update on the progress of the grant application for the West Hackney Recreation Ground: 1st stage
funding now in place; planning phase is to start in order to secure
next stage of funding for project. The next WHUG meeting with mince pies
and mulled wine is on Monday 5th December at St. Paul's Church Hall.
7.30pm start. Everybody welcome.
- Date for next committee meeting: Monday 28th November; please do contact us by November 26th if you would like any particular issues raised at the meeting.
Current local events that we have been notified about:
- Concrete Skin -
5th - 27th November 2011
Private view - Friday 4th November 6-9pm
Address: Unit A, Leswin Place.
This
autumn BHVU Gallery presents Concrete Skin, an exhibition exploring
domestic dynamics and ways in which our behaviour within the home is
motivated by social expectations. Concrete Skin brings together four
internationally recognised artists whose selected works explore the
intimate and emotional experiences that we often struggle to put into
words.
For more information on this please visit their website www.bhvu.co.uk
- This sounds like fun at our local Cafe Mostra:
Every Sunday - KIDS CINEMA - preceded by arts workshop. FREE ENTRY - small donations welcome :)
Arts workshop: 10.30am Film: 11.15am
They are also starting free filmmaking courses for children/young people aged 7-11 and 12-15
Balık Arts, The Basement of Cafe Mostra, 86 Stoke Newington High St, N16 7PA
- Benthal School Winter Fair is on Saturday 26th November 1.30-4pm
- Jubilee School's winter fair is on Friday 9th Dec 3.30 - 5.30 pm,
- William Patten School Winter Fair is on Saturday 11th December from 12.30 - 3.30pm
(LARA
covers approximately Leswin, Bayston, Darville, Batley, Tyssen and
Hollar Roads, Glading Terrace, Batley Place, Leswin Place and the houses
on Brooke and Evering Roads that back on to the ‘square’.)
- The Chocolate Factory Open Studios Weekend - 3rd/4th December 11am-6pm; Private View - Friday 2nd 6.30-9pm all welcome!
Farleigh Place, N16 7SX www.chocolatefactoryn16.com
LARA blog + tradespeople directory:
Please
be sure to check our website / blog which is updated with any relevant
events as and when we hear about them and if you have something to add
please get in touch.
Finally
we are in the process of putting together a helpful directory of local
tradesmen that have been recommended by residents, which could be
helpful to you, should you need some work on your house. Please get in
contact if you want to recommend anyone.
Until next time.
LARA Committee.
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