28+April+2008

Feedback to meeting of conversation ||  ||
 * **Next meeting** || BRAINSTORMING AGENDA ITEMS - items to be prioritised/shelved at start of meeting ||
 * || NDC complaint letter ||  ||
 * || Letters of response to NDC meeting and complaint letter ||  ||
 * || Update on 21st June Fundraiser ||  ||
 * || Glass House Training - dates to be discussed. ||  ||
 * || Feedback on Social Enterprise meeting with Brian LBDA ||  ||
 * || Feedback on London-wide coalition (anti-inappropriate development) ||  ||
 * || Feedback on HID ||  ||
 * || Better Haringey Awards - going for the green business award ||  ||
 * || Ricardo: Thursday 6.30 at Market to assist in application
 * || Hustings: Ken Livingstone response on Wards ||  ||
 * || Michael Parkes, Community Planner has offered members of the Coalition feel they want some more training / information on :-

· the town planning process and how to get involved in it

· examples of community success

Planning Aid for London would set a session up for you, here at the Resource Centre. ||  ||
 * || Arranging a WCC 'conference' with the aims of:


 * shifting perspective: being together in a relaxed, unusual, attractive setting lending to fresh bonds/connections . ..
 * having a longer meeting to achieve more aims and couching in circumstances that make it fun:
 * meeting to include food, tea/coffee breaks and interesting environment (ideas please eg. Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath? etc)
 * time to relax with each other
 * time to hear in more depth each others concerns, views, interests, determinations etc
 * time to hash out between ourselves a vision of where we are going, how to move forward, how this can be achieved, by who etc
 * socialising during breaks . ..
 * [your additions]
 * [please add further aims] ||  ||
 * || **Subject:** TV production company looking for a community to set up their own supermarket

Wall to Wall TV, the producers of the BBC family history programme Who Do You Think You Are, are producing a new programme about supermarkets.

We're looking for a community that would like to set up their own supermarket, where the shoppers themselves would decide what food is stocked and where that food comes from. Members of the supermarket would even work a few hours a month on the project to bring down prices. Because it wouldn't be making a profit, it would be able to offer good-quality food at good prices - and would mean people have control over their food and know where it comes from. Shoppers may demand organic food, local food, ethical food - or just the food they normally buy but with the knowledge that their money would be staying in the local economy.

We're interested to hear from communities who are enthused by the idea, and want to be pioneers who make it happen - this could be a new shopping model for Britain, repeated across the country. We want to make sure that it's a genuine, long-lasting community project which will still operate when the cameras have gone, so we'll offer help in the form of retail and food experts who can guide the project and make it a lasting success.

If you're interested and would maybe like to know a bit more, email Caroline Clayton or James Ramsden Thanks James The Tescopoly Team ||  ||
 * FROM JACKI || 1) Glasshouse training - NDC/GRAINGER RESPONSE

2) Googlemail - we agreed in principle last week but I think it is important that we create it asap esp re mailing list consolidation. Would also be good if we could establish 'levels' of mailing list eg all and sundry for notification of big events, smaller committee level for day to day information (if so how does it get decided - maybe people volunteer to be more/less active?)

3) Press pack - Pam sent me a link to some great photos she has already taken of WC traders http://www.pamisherwood.co.uk/gallery/wards-traders.htm. I think we need to combine these with Tiffany's offer to help create some human interest stories and get them circulating asap

4) Website - I think some work needs to be done to make the front page more organised and updated more frequently. I know Jeremy has already done some training. Maybe if we could establish a smaller group who are committed to redesigning it and keeping it up to date? Others could still contribute but then it would look more professional and easier to navigate

Part of this is my request to get a full copy of both plans and associated responses onto our page. I have finally got into the Haringey planning site after 3 weeks of trying and I don't think we should rely on them to inform our existing and potential allies. I believe Vicky has an electronic copy of our plans and Roy has a full set of responses to both plans so it shouldn't take as long as if we were trying to create from scratch

5) ENGLISH HERITAGE - I have heard back from Richard Parish - he is still working through our application and will contact me with any suggestions/comments once he is finished. He has also got in touch with the TFL Heritage Advisor and I hope to be speaking with him (the advisor) in the next few days

6) Plan - improvements. I know I have been unable to do anything on this because of time - and the few occasions I have tried to think about it I have ended up frankly confused as to what I really need to do. If others have already made contributions then there might not be a need for this suggestion. If work still needs to be done (and others are feeling as baffled as me) then maybe we need to have a separate workshop to clarify exactly what we are trying to do and make sure efforts aren't being duplicated. It might be most useful after the Glasshouse training sessions when we will get a clearer picture of what is possible ||  || [|Blackhorse Action Group] [|Ferry Lane Action Group] [|Tottenham Hale Development] [|Kings Cross Railway Lands Group] ||   ||
 * || 7) English Heritage says wards corner is unacceptable. How does this help the planning objection to demolition ? What should we be doing now? Who has added this to the planning obejction? ||  ||
 * || Linking with other north london campaigns || [|Shoreditch and Brick Lane]
 * || Linking with other north london campaigns || [|Shoreditch and Brick Lane]
 * || Fundraiser on Saturday 21st June‏ ||  ||