Sunday 4th September – 2pm

At our temporary venue, Church on Farm, back of Opportunity Centre, Adams Rd. (Just 200 metres up the road from the Community Centre).

All park users and local residents welcome to drop in. This month we will discuss our aims and aspirations for the long term future of the park (see below), especially ensuring that all the agreed improvements and future staffing/maintenance happens as planned!

Plus regular weekly user groups sessions continue: egg:

• Monday walking group. Meet 9.20am at Downhill’s Park Rd entrance. All welcome.
• Mother & Toddler Group  Tues & Thurs at BWF Community Centre. 11am. All parents/carers and their toddlers welcome.
• Wednesday Dog Training, 1pm in the Main Field   All dog owners welcome.
• Trax Club - regular rides + weekly youth club   Info: www.thetrax.co.uk
• Friday’s green gym + community café (may be having a brief break) – contact Back 2 Earth, 8808 1829, to check if on
• Football teams - various days. Ask at the Community Centre.
• Lordship Wildlife Group - meet monthly.

Saturday Sept 24th, 1-5pm – Sporticulture Day: [Sports and Horticulture!] community event in and around the BWF Community Centre. See http://www.lordshiprec.org.uk/2011/08/sporticulture-day/

Church on Farm, at the back of the Opportunity Centre. [All welcome]

Congratulations to us all!

Bring some food or drink to share if you can.

Best wishes and see you there

For reps of all organisations interested in the successful regeneration of the park.

• Regeneration updates and discussions, including all the latest plans and funding news
• Reports of activities and user groups
• Promoting community empowerment and partnership working in the park and surrounding areas
• Lordship Rec Community Festival, Sept 11th

at the Broadwater Farm Community Centre, 1 Adams Rd, N17

Formal meeting for reps of user groups, local organisations and stakeholders concerned to successfully regenerate the park.

@ Broadwater Farm Community Centre, 1 Adams Rd, N17
All welcome!

Invitation to all local community groups
Once again the Lordship Rec Users Forum is organising its annual community festival and we’re inviting you and your members to get involved! Last year 3,000 people attended and participated (see below for a report). The festival is a key part of the ongoing efforts to showcase the potential of the park, encourage greater usage, continue to develop community-led partnership working, and to pursue the regeneration of Tottenham’s largest green open space.

The Users Forum is a partnership of the Friends of Lordship Rec, Haringey Parks Dept, local residents associations, Back To Earth projects, environmental and conservation groups, Broadwater Farm Community Centre, Neighbourhood Management officers, and other interested organisations. For the last 6 years we have been working in partnership to restore and regenerate Tottenham’s largest but most neglected public green space so that it can become once again a District Park that Haringey can be proud of.
Improvements already achieved include new active play areas, new paths, on-site staffing, and restoration of the lake and woodland areas. The children’s playground is currently being replaced and refurbished.

Last year Haringey Council successfully bid to the Lottery Fund for £4m to be earmarked to carry out major works including restoration of the River Moselle and the historic Model Traffic Area, development of an environmental centre and city farm, and overhaul of the general infrastructure (eg paths, entrances and furniture). That funding will be released following certain conditions being fulfilled including detailed designs and match funding. We are particularly pleased that, in a recent ‘plebescite’ run by the Mayor of London, Lordship Rec gained the most votes of any North London park and hence received an additional £400,000 funding. We thank everyone who helped publicise it or who voted!

The Council will be lodging a ‘Phase Two’ application in September 2009 to the Heritage Lottery Fund which will hopefully secure the funding sought. If so, the regeneration works will be implemented during 2010 and 2011.

As public discussion is still ongoing on the bid and all the improvement plans, and the Heritage Lottery Fund will be considering the final application to release the grant, it is vital that we all work together to showcase our willingness to support the future of the Rec.

We are inviting everyone who supports this restoration effort to help us organise our community festival this coming September. We are therefore writing to you to canvas your support and to ascertain what form your support could take.

We invite you to:

1. Take up the opportunity for a stall to promote your community organisation (with info, bric-a-brac, or an interactive theme – or whatever). If so please contact: felix_waterhouse@hotmail.com
2. Offer to organise, or help organise an activity at the event
3. Pledge funding or resources (if you have any!) for the event infrastructure or activities
4. Offer to help with publicity
5. Attend the next organising meeting on Monday 3rd August

Please let us know as soon as possible what you or your organisation may be able to contribute. Please also pass this on to any others who may be interested.

STALLS: For community group stalls – contact: felix_waterhouse@hotmail.com

OTHER: For any other involvement – contact: dmorris@onetel.com

Formal meeting for reps of user groups, local organisations and stakeholders concerned to successfully regenerate the park.

This is a very long post.  Please use the following link to read more. 

Recreation Services

May 2009

Note 1: Most key documents can now be viewed on www.haringey.gov.uk/lordshiprec
Note 2: Friends of Lordship Rec website is www.lordshiprec.org.uk
Note 3: Any major enquiries, please contact LBH: luisa.baker@haringey.gov.uk or LRUF: dmorris@onetel.com

Lordship Recreation Ground Masterplan

• The Masterplan Draft Stage C report completed by Chris Blandford Associates (CBA) is still in circulation for comment. In this document there is an updated play strategy  and draft plans for the new bike track, Lordship Lane entrance, Model Traffic Area and River Moselle water course have all been shown in more detail. All comments/feedback needs to come back to Luisa Baker (LB) by the Mid June 2009 so changes can be fed into the design(s).
• Phil Dunne (CBA) will be attending the LRUF meeting on 18^th May 2009 to go through the detail of the updated Masterplan.
• The next formal Design Team Progression Meeting will be held 26^th May 2009 at the BWFCC. There will be LRUF representation at this meeting as usual.
• Key Reports/Drawings recently issued: Updated Masterplan Stage C Report (May 2009); Masterplan Notes  revised set of Notes issued May 2009.  Updated Masterplan Map – issued May 2009. All available at: www.haringey.gov.uk/lordshiprec

Playground

• The new playground installation is still on track. Construction started May 11^th 2009.
• Posters will be put up in the Rec to notify the public of the closure of the entrance gates on Walpole Road during construction. The project is still due to finish by the summer holidays. Ronnie Roach is the LBH Officer leading on this project. 
• Key Reports/Drawings recently issued: Final plans for the playground (January 2009) – contact LB for a copy

City Farm

• Ongoing consultation with concerned residents of Lordship Lane and Walpole Road have led to a number of changes in the City Farm Design. For a full report please read the consultation document prepared by LB & DM. www.lordshiprec.org.uk/city-farm
• Martin Burrows & Luisa Baker organised a successful trip to Hackney City Farm in May for a number of residents from Walpole Road.
• Key Reports/Drawings recently issued:  Consultation Report by LB & DM (March 2009); City Farm Stage C drawings (April 2009)

Environmental Centre

• A Stage C report has been finalised by ATAP after a series of consultation events and progression meetings.
• Key Reports/Drawings recently issued:  Environmental Centre Stage D Drawings, taking into consideration consultation feedback, have been issued: ww.haringey.gov.uk/lordshiprec

Moselle River Restoration

• Halcrow are currently still carrying out water testing at Lordship Rec and will be on site intermittently through the months of April and May – more info to follow.
  Key Reports/Drawings recently issued:  None.

Bike track

• Consultation for the new mixed ability bike track has been co-ordinated by Daniel Mintz (via www.ibikeride.com) over Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Daniel submitted a report for the architects and designs are now being drawn up by CBA.

Shell Theatre, and the Toilet Block (Lordship Lane)

• Drawings have been issued by the NPS Architects – See www.haringey.gov.uk/lordshiprec
• Focus groups have been set up for both buildings. The group have discussed and commented on the designs which have led to revised drawings.
• Further drawings to be issued in the near future.

Other News

• Play: LBH has been awarded £20K from the ‘Playbuilder Fund’ to work with London Play on a natural play project in Lordship Rec. LBH, LRUF Chair, CBA’s landscape architect and London Play will be meeting in Mid May to discuss the feasibility of this project.
• River: Lordship Rec. has also recently had confirmed a £200K contribution from the Environment Agency and ODA towards the River Moselle Restoration Project. This money will go towards match funding requirements.
• Nature conservation: A Phase 1 Habitat Survey of the Rec has been completed. A draft Tree Strategy Plan has also been drawn up mapping all the trees in the Rec, and proposing which may need to be removed/replaced/relocated or new ones planted during the improvement works. A wildlife/nature conservation group of key stakeholders is being formed, co-ordinated by BTCV, and are planning a site visit on May 21^st to assess some of the issues. A recent evening-time bat walk through the Rec organised by BTCV and Lea Valley Bats attracted 65 people, who all witnessed many bats around the lake.
• Personnel: Emma Harrington has recently joined Recreation Services to help devise a funding strategy for Lordship Recreation Ground – to pursue further funding streams to meet our outstanding match funding requirements.

Log of on-site works

• April 09: Soil investigations are being carried out at LRG by NPS from14^th-24^th April 2009. They will be on site carrying out borehole soil testing for the redevelopment works.  Complete
• April 09: NPS condition surveys for the Shell Theatre and Toilet Block Completed.
• April/May 09: Ecology Phase One Habitat Survey - April 2009 Completed. Draft Report issued..
• Halcrow will be on site at Lordship carrying out several drainage exploratory works. On May 26^th 2009 (am)
• Lordship Rec. Community Information drop in session to display all the latest plans and proposals and gauge public responses. There will also be a question answer session from 6.30 until 8pm – June 9^th 2009 at BWFCC 4.30 to 8pm – All welcome

Lordship Rec Users Forum

• Next LRUF general meeting is on 18^th May, 6.30pm at the BWF centre. This meeting will be attended by Phil Dunne from CBA who will be available to discuss the Masterplan in detail. Note: Minutes of all LRUF meetings: www.lordshiprec.org.uk/get-involved
• Next Lordship Rec Community Festival Sep 12 planning meeting is on Mon June 1^st, 6.30pm at the BWF centre. All stakeholders and interested organisations welcome.
• User groups have organised a number of recent events, including a BTCV-led daisy walk, a Friends work-in to improve the path through the woodland (another planned for May 31^st 2pm), and the Lordship Rec Dog Club have started weekly dog training sessions (Weds 7pm) in the Rec.  The Back To Earth community café (Fridays) and Tottenham Food Co-op Market Days (Last Fri/Sat of month) continue at the BWFCC.

Broadwater Community Centre, 1 Adams Rd, N17

The main focus of this meeting will be to review the latest designs for the Rec improvements (landscape, buildings, features etc). All organisations and user groups concerned with the future of the Rec are urged to attend.

Click here for minutes of the 20th April 2009 meeting.

2pm in the hut in the children’s playground.

Refreshments available. All park users and local residents welcome!

Catch up on all the news (and there’s lots of it!)

eg. BMX track, daisy walk, City Farm, wildlife areas, lake, flower beds, work day in the woodland, fundraising, BWF community centre, new playground, staffing….