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 "AN INNER CITY SANCTUARY UNDER THREAT your signature can help protect it
The London Borough of Hackney is about to violate its own guidelines for preserving the tranquillity of Abney Park, the historic garden cemetery, now urban woodland, which is the heart of Stoke Newington's Conservation Area. In contravention of their own policies, planners are recommending approval of a multi-storey school building. The controversy is not over the principle of a school, but its excessive scale and insensitive design. It will be a massive over-development of its site, and will shatter the peace of this sanctuary, which has few parallels in any inner-city area of England."
(Via Listria and Martaban Residents assoc..)
Reminds us of, many years ago, a Hackney conservation officer who assisted a factory-owner in punching a window right through it's wall into the cemetery, ooh the stories we could tell. The cemetery was secured from the council by local people to end the systematic theft of memorials and neglect of the cemetery by the council staff charged with maintaining it.
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 You are invited to come and view the final two designs (and meet the designers) for the new bandstand for Clissold Park that can be seen at Stoke Newington School, next Wednesday 20th April from 3.30 to about 4.15. You should come to the Visitors' Entrance to the school and ask for Narelle Holland.
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The next meeting date is Saturday 2nd October. We meet in the Red Room at the back of the Cafe in Clissold Park House from 11.00 to 12.00, the meetings are open to everyone, so grab a coffee and come in. If you have the kids with you, we have a creche in an adjoining room to keep them happy.
Further meetings will be on Saturdays
2nd October
and every six weeks or so from then
Your active participation will be welcome. www.clissoldpark.com or cpug@qew.clara.co.uk or CPUG c/o Rangers Office Clissold Park House.
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The User Group met on Saturday and discussed the recent sad news of the death of Christine Disney who was one of the founding members of the user group in the early 1980s. One of the greatest contributions that Christine made was to be a leading force in the organisation of the centenery celebrations for the park in 1989. Recently retired Christine threw herself wholeheartedley into this and such was the success of the event that it paved the way and planted the seed for the Stoke Newington Summer Festival. Christine always loved the park and she and Arthur have always campaigned to protect and conserve the park's tree stock. Christine was a great Stokey person and she will be much missed and fondly remembered.
Christine's funeral will be at St Mary's Church Stoke Newington on April 21 at eleven o'clock.
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The January newsletter is out with details about the incident in December, future meeting date, discussion of an offer of funding for the paddling pool and news about the animal enclosure. {filerMacros.LinkSz("minutesandagendas/jan_04_feb_news.pdf","January newsletter 2004 as acrobat file")}minutes as a web page
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Thames Water took a pipe line through N London to the East Reservoir, via Clissold Park. Work in the Park went well and the ground now looks well reinstated.
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186 application packs have been sent out and the procedure for appointing someone to run the café is in hand….
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Bowling Green – while children’s activities can be organised here, the park manager is unable to authorise any repairs to fencing etc. there as it is officially closed as a facility as far as the Council is concerned…..
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Thames Water made a presentation at the last meeting about their plans to dig a pipeline across the Park (diagonal from Green Lanes/Church Street junction to QEW gate at Grazebrook Road.) Work will start in September and involve a 20 metre wide working area which will be fenced off and eventually reinstated. The work itself will take 10 weeks or so but the reinstatement will take much longer. click here for more
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The next meeting of the user group will be on Saturday 28th June at 11.00 am in Clissold Park House.
(Not 21st June as previously advertised)
Following meetings are every six weeks, i.e. 9th August, 20th September.
All meetings of the user group are open, public meetings to which any user of the Park is welcome.
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Next meeting is on Saturday 10th May at 11.00 am in the Red Room in Clissold Park House. Creche provided so do bring the children if this makes it easier for you to attend. Current issues include: Stokefest June 15th; play facilities in the Park – new developments ... anything else that you would like to have discussed in the Clissold Park user group
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