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Edward Road Area Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter Dec 2010
A group of Edward Road residents have set up ERA – the Edward Road Area Neighbourhood Watch. Here’s their first Newsletter: Season’s greetings and welcome to the first issue of ERA, the Edward Road Area Neighbourhood Watch quarterly newsletter for residents living on Edward Road E17 and the roads off it. We hope you will [...]
L&Q postpone Walthamstow Stadium consultation
L&Q have taken a break from organising fixed questionnaires and hidden consultations to accuse residents and elected MP’s of conducting an orchestrated campaign of threats and intimidation. They also portray themselves as working selflessly to give Waltham Forest affordable homes, and attack MP’s Stella Creasy & Iain Duncan Smith as being only interested in campaigning [...]
St James St Library Public Meeting – Sunday 28th Nov
Find out about this last chance to save the building for the community and have your say…What do you think should happen to it? We need the community to come along and show their support. The meeting is organised by a collective of residents groups working to try to secure a future for the St [...]
Library campaigners banking on the Big Society
Walthamstow campaigners are racing against the clock to save their former library. And they’re calling on David Cameron’s planned Big Society Bank to back them. Waltham Forest council wants to auction the St James Street Library building, valued at £350,000. But it has given protesters till the end of the year to offer an alternative. If they [...]
Community bid to buy or share St James St Library building
Questions in Parliament, delayed auctions, Lib Dem protests, community council bids rejected, plus meetings with councillors and potentially government ministers… its been a busy month for resident groups campaigning to keep the St James Street Library building as a community facility. Politicians from all three main parties are now all – to differing degrees – [...]
Walthamstow Dogs – Independent survey
Having left Walthamstow’s much loved stadium to rot for two and a half years, L&Q recently decided to conduct a survey into residents views. Why they needed to do this when residents have made their views clear time and time again is unclear. Now Save Our Stow- the campaign group for the dog track – [...]
Council confirm St James St. library to be auctioned off + Community Council bids rejected
Waltham Forest Council have dealt the St James Street area a double blow with news that they have rejected bids to use community council money for the St James Street Library building, and that they intend to sell off the former library to the highest bidder. A member of the campaign group for the library [...]
Still waiting… Residents frustrated by lack of answers on St James St Library
After persistent campaigning for over 3 years, residents were told this summer (pre-Election) that Waltham Forest Council would like the St James Street Library building to be a space for the whole community, just as residents have been asking for years. Campaigners from St James Street Library campaign and Blackhorse Action Group organised a ‘Love [...]
First harvest – Sat 3rd July
Everything’s growing well on the site – the raised beds are blooming and the first tiny squash has appeared. The mulch is keeping most things going with only sparse watering but unfortunately the lettuces were sacrificed to the heat – that’ll learn us! As Colin helpfully pointed out, watering in the middle of the day [...]
Coppermill Park – update on work
Firstly apologies to all the residents who got in touch back in late May/early June to ask about the new Coppermill play area. The whole site was strewn with rubbish, while work on finishing it had ground to a halt. Thats before mentioning the completely mishandled consultation process. We got in touch with all 3 High Street [...]
New Willowfield school scrapped
Two months after pupils exhibited their ideas for the new build PFI Willowfield school, the scheme has today (July 5th) been scrapped by Education secretary Michael Gove. All other BSF projects in Walthamstow were also halted. FULL LIST OF BSF PROJECTS SCRAPPED (PDF) While residents were concerned at possible plans for housing above the school [...]
Thanks for coming: Love the Library Day
Walthamstow residents turned out on Saturday [3 July] to celebrate a much-loved building and call on the council to bring it back into community use. “It was a beautiful sunny day,” said Mo Gallaccio, who organised the ‘Love St James Street Library’ event. “We promised to provide a fun day for all the family and [...]
Come along and Love St James St Library on the 3rd of July
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Come along on Saturday the 3rd of July for a “Love the St James St. Library“ event. 11am to 4pm at the Library building on Coppermill Lane. Kids (and adults) can decorate the building with pictures and ideas for how it could be used for the benefit of the community. There’ll [...]
Community Council Tuesday 15th June
The next Walthamstow West Community Council takes place next week (Tues 15th) at the Walthamstow Academy. Its not exactly the closest of venues but head along to raise any issues or concerns with local councillors and council officers. Whats happening with St James Street Library, the half finished Coppermill Park, the latest on Willowfield School… [...]
BAG Gardening event – May 15th
Following on from last months BAG gardening event, learn about the next stages, potting on, and planting out. We hope to have some raised beds ready so that some of the seedlings can be planted out in the community garden. Saturday 15th May from 11am til 1pm at the Douglas Eyre community garden, next to [...]
Walthamstow Central public exhibition of plans
Plans for the redevelopment of Walthamstow Station were unveiled to the public at the weekend (14th/15th May). Considering the scale of the development, there appears to have been barely any publicity for the event held in Walthamstow Library. Its part of a 500 million pound deal for Solum Regeneration (a partnership between Kier & Network [...]
Vote Library!
The Walthamstow Cinema campaign recently published a list detailing the views of all candidates & councillors on the EMD. Anyone who wants a cinema in E17 should visit here and vote accordingly (in short most MP’s in favour, Labour councillors want EMD building restored but not necessarily as a cinema, All High Street Lib Dems for). Now, the [...]
Walthamstow Wide Web #1
In this – the first of an irregular feature highlighting Walthamstow on the World Wide Web – we look at some of the videos uploaded in the last month or so. First up a lovely music video by the much hyped band Temper Trap, filmed on Walthamstow Marshes during the recent cold spell. Its odd [...]
James O’Rourke statement on Lib Dem infighting
James O’Rourke, Lib Dem Councillor for the High Street Ward has issued a statement on what he calls the “highly questionable practices” of the local parties executive. The Waltham Forest Guardian reports that “Johar Khan… played a major role in the power struggle” that led to John Macklin (Deputy Leader of the Council), Bob Belam, [...]
V2 bomb sites in Walthamstow
View V2 sites in Walthamstow in a larger map A quick post to highlight this fascinating google map of V2 bomb attacks on Walthamstow in the final years of the 2nd World War. The maps creator, TimStroud got the information from “The Story of Civil Defense, by Ross Wyld. & The War over Walthamstow. Issued [...]
Seed spectacular!
Blackhorse Road area residents gathered together on Saturday (April 10th) to learn how to grow vegetables from seeds, at BAG’s new community garden site off Coppermill Lane. Thirty participants of all ages, from toddlers to pensioners, sowed pumpkins, tomatoes, beans, lettuces, herbs, and also ‘companion’ flowers like sunflowers and nasturtiums. They then had the chance [...]
Walthamstow Election 2010
Local & National elections take place on the 6th of May. WALTHAMSTOW MP CANDIDATES Farid Ahmed – Liberal Democrat (Website/Facebook) Daniel Perrett – Green (Website/Twitter/Facebook) Stella Creasy – Labour (Website/Twitter/Facebook) – Youtube Film / Stella on Brown Andy Hemsted – Conservative (Facebook) Nancy Taaffe – Trade Unionist and Socialist (Website/Facebook/Twitter) – Youtube video Judith Chisholm-Benli [...]
Seed Sowing and Swapping: Sat 10th April
Dear local gardeners, Please come to BAG’s next gardening event – a seed sowing and swapping event. Saturday 10th April from 2.30-4.30, next to the Douglas Eyre Sports Pavilion, Coppermill Lane, E17. (Go along the side of the Pavilion and the community garden is to the right of the football pitches) Come along and: Find [...]
RT @BlackhorseAG: RT @TheMillE17: Mill Spring Newsletter: volunteers, rooms to rent, whats on, new art & plea to help deliver leaflets http://t.co/a3xKyTUT1 month ago
RT @BlackhorseAG: RT @TheMillE17: Mill Spring Newsletter: volunteers, rooms to rent, whats on, new art & plea to help deliver leaflets http://t.co/a3xKyTUT1 month ago
RT @TheMillE17: Mill Spring Newsletter: volunteers, rooms to rent, whats on, new art & plea to help deliver leaflets http://t.co/a3xKyTUT1 month ago
A People's History of the EMD / Granada Cinema - Follow @saveourcinema for the latest: http://t.co/ZiFoqq8P #e171 month ago
RT @LondonFire: The big fire we're currently fighting in Highams Park, Chingford is in a disused DIY centre. More here: http://t.co/gxf8FmVm1 month ago
RT @BlackhorseAG: RT @musiclikedirt In Walthamstow the police have invisible CCTV! #e17 http://t.co/U2RVbSDO Coppermill opposite @TheMillE17 - @Warpdog1 month ago
RT @BlackhorseAG: RT @musiclikedirt In Walthamstow the police have invisible CCTV! #e17 http://t.co/U2RVbSDO Coppermill opposite @TheMillE17 - @Warpdog1 month ago
