• New City Farm
• New Eco-Centre
• Re-landscaping plans
• Restoration of the River Moselle
• Restoration of the Model Traffic Area,
• Shell Theatre and Lordship Lane entrance
• New Bike Track, and new Playground

You are invited to find out more about these exciting facilities. Please drop in to talk to us about these plans.

Jazz Café
Broadwater Farm Community Centre

Tuesday 9th June
Anytime from 4.30pm – 8pm

We look forward to seeing you there!

LBH Recreation Services + Lordship Rec Users Forum

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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.

The Council are planning to build a new Integrated Learning Campus for the schools on the north of the Broadwater Farm estate. Regarding the Centre hey are considering whether to a. annexe it, or b. demolish and rebuild it, or c. scrap it, or d. just leave it as it is.

There are lots of concerns about this among local residents as the Centre was only built after many years and a great deal of campaigning and effort from the local community. But the Council wants to reduce the financial cost of maintaining and staffing such a large building.

As far as the future of Lordship Rec is concerned, the LRUF have already made it clear that key facilities and services for the regeneration of Lordship Rec are due to be provided from the Centre, and cannot be provided in the park: eg. sports supervision, changing rooms, industrial kitchen, conference rooms, large hall, and general all-purpose public facilities and staffing by the park. The successful regeneration of the park depends on such facilities and services, and therefore losing them is not an option, nor is moving them further away from the entrance into the park. There are also concerns that if some sort of new community facilities were built as part of the integrated campus there would be problems over community access and the ability to develop independent community initiatives, activities and projects.

It is very important that the community speak out with their views. You can respond to the consultation by 20th April via – www.haringey.gov.uk/broadwaterfarmcommunitycentreconsultation or by picking up a form at the Centre.

Statement from Haringey Council:

Broadwater Farm Community Centre has provided recreational, educational and social activities for local people and neighbouring communities since 1992.

We want to provide the best services we can but we need to look at the way services are organised in the future. Broadwater Farm Community Centre is probably one of the largest Centres in the borough. We need a lot of investment to maintain it’s current standard and to make essential repairs. At present it requires a yearly Council subsidy of around £300,000 just to keep it running.

The Council is committed to providing excellent community services for this area. However, we must do this in a way which makes best use of our resources and is the most cost effective.

We also want to let you know that there are two developments taking place in the Broadwater Farm area – the Inclusive Learning Campus and the proposed regeneration of Lordship Recreational Grounds which will bring great benefits to the community. These developments may help us to make decisions about the future of the Community Centre.

Have Your Say

We started consultation on Tuesday 17 February 2009. We held meetings with stakeholders in the community and held discussions with community representatives. We want to ask you your views on how best to deliver services from the Community Centre in the future. We would also like to know how you currently use the Centre and what services and activities you would like the Centre to provide now and in later years.

Your views are very important to us so we have arranged for you to contact us in the following ways:

• You can complete our online questionnaire:  www.haringey.gov.uk/broadwaterfarmcommunitycentreconsultation
• Hard copies of the questionnaire will be available in the Community Centre. The Community Centres address is: Broadwater Farm Community Centre, Adams Road, N17 6HE
• The printed questionnaire can be emailed back to us at at haveyoursay@haringey.gov.uk
• Or posted back to us with any other comments you may have to the Consultation Team at the freepost address below. Send all printed and emailed copies back to:
  Consultation Team, Freepost NAT 20890, PO Box 264, London N22 8BR.

Please also use this address if you need a copy of the questionnaire in large type or in another format. Alternatively you can email us at haveyoursay@haringey.gov.uk or contact us by telephone on 020 8489 2958.

Don’t miss out! Please let us have your views by Monday 20 April 2009.

North London Parks Votes

Lordship Recreation Ground 4711
Dollis Valley Green Walk 4302
Arnos Park 4158
Elthorne Park 2533
Barnard Park 2405
Lincoln’s Inn Fields 2237
Shoreditch Park 1461
Coram’s Fields 1293
Bunhill Fields 842
Broadley Street Gardens 650

An incredible response considering Tottenham is an area where so many people don’t have direct internet access. A big thank you to everyone who helped encourage people to take part. We thank our fellow residents around Haringey for this massive vote of confidence, demonstrating the overwhelming public support for the community-driven plans for the regeneration of Tottenham’s largest green space. All our hard work and patient partnership-working with the Council and others over the last seven years is at last beginning to pay off.

Despite being one of six parks around London shortlisted for a special ‘one-off’ £2m GLA grant, we weren’t successful in getting that. This means that we still have to work hard over the next 6 months to raise additional match funding in order to ensure our regeneration plans can be implemented.

Dave Morris
Chair, Lordship Rec Users Forum

See the GLA press release below for more details.

The Mayor today (Wednesday 4 March) revealed that Lordship Recreation Ground, Haringey, and Dollis Valley Green Walk, Barnet, are among the top-ten winning parks to each receive a £400,000 makeover following a public vote.

Londoners were recently invited by the Mayor to vote on a shortlist of parks across the capital in order to fund improvements to make them more attractive and safer for local communities. More than 110,000 people cast their vote and the winners have been announced today.

Funding for the parks’ makeovers comes from efficiency savings made from the former administration’s publicity budget including the scrapping of The Londoner newspaper.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ‘In a fantastic show of people power, Londoners have voted in their droves to decide which of their ten favourite parks will get a makeover. So is it incredibly exciting to reveal today the results of the ‘parks plebiscite’, and thanks to this loyal support of local people, ten parks across the capital are now set to become much more pleasant places.

‘Londoners deserve a better quality of life and making a greener, more attractive city is a top priority, so I am thrilled to announce that Lordship Recreation Ground and Dollis Valley Green Walk are deserving winners.

‘Many thanks to all those who voted and showed such enthusiasm for their local park.

The Mayor also announced that Burgess Park is being awarded a larger £2million grant to undertake a more substantial upgrade. This winner was decided by the Mayor taking advice from a panel of experts.

There are exciting plans afoot at Lordship Recreation Ground and the Mayor’s grant will help to bring them to fruition. The River Moselle, now in a concrete pipe, would be restored to an open stream; development of a new city farm, play area and café; creation of wildflower meadows; restoration of the Park’s historic features.

Although much of the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is attractive, parts have become overgrown, with a run down feel. A grant is expected to: clear overgrown scrub to open up views and help people feel safer; install lighting at key points; and improve footpaths and signage; install new play facilities at Windsor Open Space and natural play features at the nearby Brent Park.

Work to improve the winning parks is set to take place after detailed plans have been drawn up in conjunction with local borough councils, which will be subject to local consultations. For those parks that did not win the public vote, the Mayor has asked City Hall officers to provide advice on other grants and funding that could be available to them from other organisations.
In addition to providing space for recreation and leisure purposes, the benefits of green spaces include: improving health and quality of life by providing opportunities for out door exercise and contact with nature; supporting biodiversity; helping to manage flood risk; providing cooling and shade; and helping to reduce air and noise pollution.

London boroughs nominated almost 100 green spaces in their areas that were in need of extra care and 47 were short listed by a panel of experts for Londoners to vote on. To ensure the money is used on parks across London, the parks were divided into five London sub-regions (North West, North, North East, South East and South West) with around ten parks per sub-region.

Voting took place between 25 November 2008 and 30 January 2009 online, by text message and by postal voting forms. A list of final voting figures per park is available on www.london.gov.uk/parksvote/

At the Jazz Café, Broadwater Farm Community Centre
1 Adams Road, London N17 6HE

Dear All,
You are invited to attend a special consultation event surrounding the regeneration of Lordship Recreation Ground. We’re seeking your opinions about designs for the new City Farm and Eco-Centre, as well as the revised plans for the park as a whole.

To answer any questions the following will be present on the Friday: the architects and designers, officers from Recreation Services and Neighbourhood Management, reps from Back To Earth (who will be managing the new facilities) and members of the Friends of Lordship Rec. On the Saturday, it will mainly be the reps from Back To Earth and the Friends of Lordship Rec.

There will also be information about the new proposals for the merger of the current Broadwater Farm schools and Children’s Centre by rebuilding them and creating an integrated learning campus at the site.

The event will take place in the Jazz Cafe, where there will also be gorgeous home-cooked meals made by local residents (available to buy at very cheap prices), as well as the Tottenham Food Co-op market stalls (with a range of organic vegetables and other products).

So all in all its going to be an exciting and highly informative event.

Please come along, have you say and help shape the future of your local park!!!