Post Tagged with: "St James Street"
Lease on “The Mill” Signed
The former St James Street Library building is now leased from the council for use by the community for the next 15 years (as opposed to sold off to a property developer). HUGE thanks and well done to everyone (and there are so many!) who has made this possible.
Job opportunities at The Mill
After securing access to the former St James Street Library building and a years funding through NESTA’s Neighbourhood Challenge project, “The Mill” now has two job vacancies. The first is for a Community Organiser to provide outreach and organisation to the community, making links, networking, organising events and bringing the community together to make The [...]
Come to The Mill – Saturday 16th April
The St James Street Library building is reopening as The Mill! So come to Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, on Saturday. Sorry about the short notice. It’s been a rollercoaster ride since we announced that Waltham Forest council was allowing us to return the former library to community use. Our original partners had to drop out, for [...]
Trio of upto eight storey flats planned at St James Street
UPDATE: The Waltham Forest Guardian says objections to the plans can be submitted up until the 31st of Jan. “Private company PHCC East London Ltd wants to build a health centre in one of the units with 19 flats above, with shops and 45 flats in the other structure. The application states that both blocks, [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Liaquat Ali: E17′s leading satirist
Swift, Hicks, Hislop… all notable satirists but did any of them ever pen anything as comical as the letter Liaquat Ali posted through residents letterboxes today. A little background adds to the humour. Plans to turn St James Street Library into a drug treatment centre were scrapped on Tuesday when four Labour councillors realised they [...]
Drug Centre scrapped? Library to be Sold
The Waltham Forest Guardian reports that the drug centre described by Council Leader Chris Robbins as a “wonderful addition” to the local community has been scrapped. Faced with continued protests from ungrateful locals who perversely thought having a library was wonderful, Cllr Robbins announced the building will not now be a treatment centre. Any residents [...]
St James Street Drug Centre plan to go ahead?
On the 2nd of March Coppermill School played host to the first ever Community Council with a queue to get in! An eagle eyed regular had spotted the council trying to sneak though the conversion of the Library building into a drug centre, hidden away at the end of an economic report. Residents many of [...]
Books, Not drugs – Council hides conversion of Library into drugs centre
The council have succeeded in uniting parents, residents, and campaign groups under the banner “Give our children books, not drugs!” Protest outside the library building, Coppermill Lane, 10am Wednesday 18 February. Children especially welcome. Bring placards and banners on the “Books, not drugs” theme if you wish. As you may have already heard, the council intends to turn [...]
St James St. Library to become Drug treatment centre
The story of the closure of St James Street Library already reads like the definitive work on how a council can best show utter contempt for residents. After the initial illegal closure, ignoring a 1,200 strong petition, and doctoring community council proposals to fund a feasibility study into reopening, the council have buried new plans [...]
BAG Newsletter
URGENT COUNCIL CONSULTATION The council would like residents feedback on plans to site Willowfield school at the top of the Douglas Eyre playing fields. Visit the Building Schools for the Future consultation here to give them your views. As usual with council consultations they’ve waited until less than a week before the closing date to [...]
BAG Newsletter July 2008
Hi all, It’s taken us an age to produce a first newsletter, so apologies for that. The good news is that BAG now has over 120 members and hopes to continue growing and getting stronger. Contact us or join here. Without any further ado here’s what’s been happening in the last few months:
Putting the Con in Consultation
Question: You’re a council caught closing a local library without bothering to tell the community who use it, all to save £70,000. The governments audit commission savages your actions, the lawyers point out it breaks legal guidelines, local residents mount open air libraries in protest and the scrutiny committee gives you 6 months to consult [...]
Closure of St James St Library – 1st Anniversary
2008 is the National Year of Reading and Waltham Forest Council are marking it by continuing to deprive the local community of a much loved and valued Library. It’s now 1 year since the council pretended to renovate St. James St. Library, then promptly closed the doors without proper local consultation or warning. To mark [...]
Closed for Easter
On Thursday BBC London visited the William Morris Gallery to film the 11,000 signature petition protesting at council cuts to both opening hours and its world renowned staff. The news item featured Councillor Reardon trying to claim all is well, and the opening hours are fine but being forced to admit it will of course [...]
Hope for the Standard Music Venue or as comment on FB said "seems as likely as a dogtrack opening in the cinema"? http://t.co/lXQe4x5D2 weeks ago
@BlackhorseAG Kevin Williams could have been saved at Hillsborough in 1989. Please Sign+RT to fight for justice http://t.co/k7lVEJut4 weeks ago
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£1 Million for lifts at Blackhorse Road station - funding awarded for two new lifts http://t.co/SFLHkepX via @HighamHill2 months ago
@stowscene @BlackhorseAG £980k for 2 new lifts in Blackhorse Road Station! http://t.co/43yrcGM02 months ago
Read @darrenhayman's tribute to Rodis cafe @ Blackhorse Rd. A small family business selling up after 100 yrs of service http://t.co/Th9KjDbz2 months ago
