The+Community+Plan+-+Wards+Corner+-+Minutes+-+29+October+2007


 * Draft Minutes of the 3rd Meeting @ Mango on 29th October 2007 – Ward Corner Community Plan**

__**Present:**__ Jeremy and Wendy (Fountain Area RA, SH); Joy (Sustainable Haringey, Resident in Bruce Grove Area); Candy, Roy, Jocelyn (Clyde Area RA); Joseph ( TCS, T&WG, FoE, CARA); Ibilola (Tiverton Tewkesbury RA); Judith (CARA, TCS, FoE, SH), Hazel (Blenheim Rise RA); Alison (Conservation Area Advisory Cttee and Bruce Grove Residents Network); Matthew (Tottenham Civic Society and Tower Gardens Residents Group); Rowan (CAAC); Joyce (TCS and HFRA); Victoria, Sandra, Oscar, Rachel, Luis F, Luis Alberto, Lita (Seven Sisters Traders); Ricardo (Architect for Seven Sisters Traders); Carlos, Sandra, Liliana (Pedro Achata Trust); Jill (Seven Sisters Market stakeholder);… **//Apologies://** Gloria Benson (TARA); Nick (FARA); Dave (Chestnuts Northside RA); AM Gray (West Green RA), Toby and Noreen (One Southside RA); Cllr Diakides (Cabinet member for Housing); David Schmidt (LibDems)


 * Purpose of the meeting to discuss the alternative proposals for Wards Corner**


 * 1. Feedback on progress of items from last meeting:

Ibilola and Wendy on West Green Road Businesses** **Response** All businesses spoken to were enthusiastically in favour of restoration: - Freeholders running businesses who could profit from a restoration project that encouraged lots more business into the area. This could be more beneficial than the price a developer would offer for the building to be demolished for new build non-local business and flats; - leaseholders living and working on premises who stand to loose their 20+ year livelihoods and will have to move from the area; - Estate Agents who confirm that preference is always for the old than the new and for that which has character; - Travel Agents, Cosmetic retailers, grocers etc § Survey to be rewritten – Latin market changed to community market/and some other changes – to be discussed – who?


 * 2. Matthew Bradby – Listing of WC – Victorian Society end of this week

3. Feedback on economic arguments for restoration - Carlos**

Restoration should focus on three different aspects of preservation: 1) name: seven sisters preserved and honoured at site 2) architectural merit preserved and honoured and worked with 3) industrial character of property and site preserved and built upon for future generations

small and local is working not big and global – research business trends and big banks are folding while small local banks are thriving – same trends will prevail here at Wards Corner. Invest in local, they in each other – plug leaks.

Francesca Dean, Seven Sisters Bridge Small Business Unit, 0207 527 5172 for advice. Small business are viable and space is needed for such businesses whereas corporate and business from outside brings betting shops, money lenders/undesirable and alienat-ed/ing businesses

§ have business discussion with NDC – write to project officer ask to do presentation to the board //**__Paul/Ruth__**// § make appointment to talk to David Lammy whose pushing the redevelopment __//**?**//__ § talk with New Economics Foundation – investing in local business – plugging the leaks__//**Jeremy**//__ § talk to tottenham traders association (Christine, CAAC) get him to come to meetings__//**Wendy**//__ § talk to NLBusiness – probe to see if support for alternative plan __//**Matthew?**//__ § Shifa Mustafa been written to by Matthew, awaiting reply __//**Matthew**//__ § How many units need to be incorporated – must show how can incorporate that number __//**Ricardo?**//__ press to be targetted - locals and Nationals Standard/Big Issue/Metro/Guardian Society/ __//**? Lite**//__ § press release following meeting __//**Wendy/Paul/Joseph/Jeremy/Joy**//__ § images of plan/drawings = crucial for press release __//**Ricardo**//__ § email ricardo ideas about business spaces ricardopelayo@msn.com § Submit plan and design statements – 7 November __//**take forward**//__ § Deputation to a full Council Meeting __//**Take forward**//__ § Petition __//**take forward**//__ § Gainger to submit plan by end of November – set timeline against this __//**take forward**//__ § Looking for funding for alternative proposal __//**take forward**//__ § campaigning/publicising/press aspects __//**take forward**//__

quality restaurant (Lesley Philips, Lemar, Jamila) and shops to be the advertisement the WC windows provide Italian Deli, Cheese shop, bookshop, Arts and cafés, bars, international market, africa week themed outdoor market, frivolity shops, world in a parade of shops, small green space/childrens play space watchable from cafes,
 * Wish List**