minutes+Oct+11th+2005


 * __Report of HFRA General Meeting – Oct 11th 2005__**


 * //__RA Delegates Present__://** Bob Maltz - **Gladwell, Landrock & Cecile Pk Residents Action Group, N8;** Kate Huddie – **Noel Park North Area RA, N22;** Joyce Rosser - **Warner Estate RA, N8;** Ole & Ulla Lefmann **– Burghley Rd Area RA, N8;** Usha Chauhan and Dave Morris - **Chestnuts Northside RA, N15;** Pat Ayinde – **Bruce Grove RN, N17;** Vivienne Cuming and Simon Fedida - **Avenue Gardens RA, N22;** Laurie Owen - **Parkside Malvern RA, N8;** Annie Bebington – **Seacole Ct RA, N15;** Kit Grieveson - **Stroud Green RA, N4** **//__Apologies:__//** Ibilola Campbell – **Tiverton Tewkesbury RA, N15;** Sheik and Kyoko Thompson - **Chesnuts Area RA, N17;** Mat Danaher **– Woodlands Park RA, N15;** Ruth Moulton – **Coppetts RA, N10;** Stephen Whittle - **West Green RA, N15;** Alison Smith – **Gardens RA, N4;** Marian Janes – **CASCH, N8;** Sue Hessel – **Haslemere Rd RA, N8;** Joyce Oyeyi Effiong – **Suffolk Road RA, N15;** Adam Coffman – **Fairfax Rd RA, N8;** Sarah Montgomery – **Oakfield Ct RA, N8;** Peter Thompson - **Muswell Hill & Fortis Green Assoc, N2;** Paul McKay – **Hewitt Rd RA, N8;** Robert Gainsborough - **St George’s Lodge RA, N10;** Colin Marr – **Methuen Park Association, N10;** Alex Irvine - **Bowes Park Community Assoc., N13;** Jimmy Athanassiou – **Palace Gates RA, N22 //__And__//** Darren Newland – Chettle Ct N8 advocate

Minutes for the September 13th General Meeting were agreed.
 * __1. Minutes of last meeting__**

There were reports from all groups present (and some extra ones sent in) about some of their most recent activities and concerns. Some of the issues raised led to further discussions.
 * __2. Local reports from RAs present__**

Preparations were going smoothly. We agreed to allocate £100 max for food and refreshments, to be prepared by Annie, Joyce R and Usha. Looking for more volunteers from RAs to contribute to the workshops.
 * __3. HFRA ‘Keep It Local’ residents conference__**
 * __4. Planning and Development__**

There were reports of continuing residents’ campaigns against unpopular and unwanted development applications. This included:

//a. Cranford Way Concrete Factory// 400 residents, many from local residents associations in N8, N4, N15 and N22, demonstrated outside the Civic Centre on October 10th. This was a culmination of a year-long residents’ campaign organised by ‘GreenN8’ to stop the proposed factory. Protestors then piled into the council chamber to demand Cllrs on the Planning Cttee throw the proposal out. To prolonged cheers they did. However, the company is appealing and the campaign continues… //b. Lordship Lane// Following a number of local residents’ protests at the Wood Green site, Paul Simon Ltd have come up with a third proposal for intense housing development there. NPNARA obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act (after a lot of delays and fobbing off) revealing that the Council still owns the land, had permitted the demolition of the old chapel on the site, and had rejected proposals for the site which were more appropriate that the current ones. //c. Community pubs – The Fountain (N15) and the Oakdale Arms (N4)// Two much-loved and well-used local pubs are facing demolition as developers have applied to build blocks of flats on the sites. Local residents and users have mounted strong campaigns to save the pubs as irreplaceable community facilities. HOBA RA has collected 600 signatures to save the Oakdale. The Save The Fountain campaign (which includes the Clyde Area RA) has started a petition and is planning a public meeting.

The Council had been consulting over a new draft ‘Open Spaces Strategy’ document. The HFRA and the Friends of Parks Forum had agreed a joint response, which our Secretary had drafted and sent in. Our main concerns were to ensure that the OSS would be amended to be more effective in protecting and expanding open space in Haringey, to seek minimum national standards for all kinds of open spaces (parks, allotments, nature reserves, children’s play areas, sports fields etc), and to recognise that park-keepers need to be brought back. A recent government-funded report has called for park-keepers in local parks. A spokesperson for the Association of Local Government has admitted that getting rid of park-keepers is now considered to have been a mistake. We decided to propose to the Haringey Friends of Parks Forum that we launch a joint campaign for park-keepers in Haringey. We had a brief discussion about the Council’s new idea of seeking individual ‘Community Volunteers’. Apparently there are about 100 so far. The Federation was again invited to attend the second meeting of the BPP involving key Haringey organisations. Ibi Campbell, Bob Maltz and Dave Morris were due to attend again for the HFRA. · **Membership Secretary** - Kate Huddie [Noel Park North Area RA] · **Older People** - Joyce Oyeyi-Effiong [Suffolk Rd RA] · **Heritage & Conservation** - Joyce Rosser [Warner estate RA] · **Living Streets –** To invite Paul McKay [Hewitt Rd RA] pending his agreement We decided that the __December 13th meeting__ should be part-social, including food and drink. We’d shorten the agenda by dropping the local reports. The __January 10th meeting__ would be a special one to discuss how to strengthen and broaden Federation activities.
 * __5. Green Open Spaces__**
 * __6. Community Volunteers__**
 * __7. Better Places Partnership__**
 * __8. Federation Business__**
 * //a. HFRA Website//** We urgently need technical help to run it! Please contact 8211 0916.
 * //b. Community Action//** Another issue of our newspaper is to be done by the end of October.
 * //c. HFRA reps//** We agreed to co-opt the following as Federation reps:
 * //d. Future HFRA meetings//**
 * __9. Any Other Business__**


 * //Crouch End schools//** We briefly discussed issues related to the lack of available school places in Crouch End, the expansion of Coleridge primary into a 4-form entry, and some spare capacity in a school just ‘over the border’ in Islington.

//Due to lack of time we agreed to hold over the final non-urgent items to next month//