HTHCT is carrying out a consultation to understand what sort of community use and access people would like to see at Hornsey Town Hall in the future. There are two ways to take part: 1. Fill in the online survey here – it’ll only take a few minutes! 2. Attend a public workshop on Saturday 16th May at Hornsey Town Hall (2-4pm) to discuss this in more detail. To find out more and register for a place, please go here. Places are limited so please do register if you’d like to come.
HTHCT is carrying out a consultation to understand what sort of community use and access people would like to see at Hornsey Town Hall in the future.
There are two ways to take part:
1. Fill in the online survey here – it’ll only take a few minutes!
2. Attend a public workshop on Saturday 16th May at Hornsey Town Hall (2-4pm) to discuss this in more detail. To find out more and register for a place, please go here. Places are limited so please do register if you’d like to come.
The reason for this community consultation is simple: Later this year, Haringey Council is going to carry out a major procurement process to find a developer/operator (or consortium of companies) to take on the restoration of the Grade 2* listed Town Hall and the ongoing management of the building. This will be funded by the development of the housing on the rest of the site (as detailed in the planning consent of 2010.
Community use and access to this wonderful building is vital. It is also an opportunity to establish Hornsey Town Hall as “a world class model of civic renaissance”.
Hornsey Town Hall Creative Trust, the independent buildings preservation trust established in 2007 to promote the regeneration of HTH, is carrying out this consultation to understand what people want to see here in the future so we can tell the potential operators. This means that the findings from this consultation will form part of the brief that all developers will get, setting the bar high if they want to have a chance of winning the bid to take on this project. When bidders are scored in the procurement process, the criterion worth the most points is their community access and use offer.
We only have until the middle of May to do this consultation to fit in with Haringey’s procurement timescale:
· April – May: community consultation
· Late May: HTHCT analysis of consultation responses and producing brief on community use and access for Haringey Council procurement pack
· 26 May: procurement brief to LBH Cabinet for approval
· August: procurement brief sent out to developers / operators
· March 2016: selection of preferred developer (HTHCT will be involved in scoring the community use and access element)
· July 2016: Cabinet approval of developer / operator
Please do let us know what you think – and tell everyone you know to get involved as well!