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Hornsey Park community gardening - recent successes with our plots and planters but challenges old and new lie ahead!

With around 30 children and as many adults of all ages, a table full of cakes and savouries, fresh tea and coffee and sunshine, our first Playstreet got off to a flying start.

(and it could be as soon as Sunday, 26th May, Bank Holiday Weekend) We have permission, the Notices are up and Haringey Council has offered us as a one off the potential to get up to £200 towards our costs. We plan to run the event on 26th May between 10.30am – 12.30pm or even a […]

It's now a couple of months since St William told us that January's wet weather had interfered with the first of their engineers' annual checks on water quality in the Moselle at the Heartlands. The results would therefore be delayed. Then in March we were told that there was a hold up in their receiving […]

A legacy of the incomplete redevelopment of Wood Green in the late 1970s, Martins Walk has become an essential and well used connection between our residential streets and otherwise disconnected parts of the town centre. It was nameless for the first thirty years of its existence until named ‘Martins Walk’ by PMRA in 2001, in […]

There’s a lot of activity in Hornsey Park at the moment. Some of it is welcome and some of it isn’t.  Friday night saw the first meeting of the Safer Neighbourhoods Noel Park Ward Panel. Five police officers and two business representatives. Chaired by the forthright and good-humoured Gerard McGrath and with more than a […]

27 FEBRUARY 2019 AN EVENING WITH PC STEVE HUMPHREY The meeting was attended by 25 residents. This was an informal discussion at which Steve described his role and residents were encouraged to express their experiences and concerns. Summary: Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour is a long term problem with no easy solutions. As residents our […]

We learned with relief that the absurd plans to demolish the Mall and the housing above it had been withdrawn. But now the AAP is back!

Is this the moment when Haringey Council finds the confidence to become a serious player in the world of water management?

There are two last opportunities to catch this wonderful local institution. Drummer Stu Butterfield who has run these sessions right on our doorstep for the last three years has decided to call it a day. This Thursday (December 13th) it’s the virtuosic but highly literate singer Brigitte Beraha with Barry Green on piano and the […]