[Friends] Save the BWF Community Centre

[dave]

Dear Councillors
 

I learnt today that there is a possible plan to demolish Broadwater Farm
Community Centre.
 
I should like to protest strongly against this. There is a serious shortage
of community meeting facilities in Tottenham and the centre is needed for
this. It also houses important sports and youth activities.The volume of
activity and use made of the building has increased very substantially over
the last six months due to the community cafe, food coop, training days etc
organised by Back to Earth. A huge amount of time, energy and fund-raising
bids as well as council money have gone into making this happen and into
integrating plans for development of the community centre with those for
improvement of the Lordship Recreation Ground.. 
 
It would be a terrible waste of public money to pull the centre down. A
better approach would be to integrate the development of community and
sports acitvities across the complex of actual and planned buildings in
Adams Road, so that the schools could make some use of the sports hall,
grounds/gardens and other facilities in the community centre. Some minor
alterations to the community centre building would surely make this
possible and permit safe, weather-proof and traffic-proof passage of
children from one building to another.

I could not go to the Assembly tonight because of other commitments and
anyway I only learned that this was on the agenda today. There should be
extensive public consulation before any decision is taken.
 

sincerely
 
Anne Gray
Member, West Green Residents' Association committee
Active in Tottenham Food Coop and Back to Earth Projects.


[Local Councillors: toni_mallett at hotmail.com,
eddie.griffith at haringey.gov.uk,  rahman.khan at haringey.gov.uk]