Year: 2017

Haringey Council has announced that FEC will fund eleven social rented homes on the HTH site.   This investment is to be ring-fenced.  Haringey Council has also undertaken to provide a further fifteen affordable homes in the west of the borough.   The provision of affordable housing will also be reviewed near to completion of the project with the possibility that more may then be made available.

LBH’s announcement is here: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/news/hornsey-town-hall-developer-fund-affordable-housing

This is in addition to the much-needed investment of over £30 million by FEC in the restoration and refurbishment of Hornsey Town Hall, outline details of which were published last month and are here: FEC publishes details of restoration costs for Hornsey Town Hall

Two dates have been announced for Meet the Arts Operator sessions with Piers Read from Time + Space.

They are at Hornsey Town Hall on Thursday 23 November at 7.30pm and Saturday 25 November at 11.00am.

You can register here on EventBrite (free, one ticket per person, first come, first served basis) for 23 November:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-arts-operator-time-space-co-tickets-39549778452?aff=es2

and here for 25 November:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-arts-operator-time-space-co-tickets-39550246853?aff=es2

You can read the full press release here:

http://www.restoringhornseytownhall.com/dates_for_meet_the_arts_operator_of_hornsey_town_hall_announced

FEC has published the headline costs for the repair and restoration of Hornsey Town Hall. It represents an investment in HTH in excess of £30 million, with £25.5 million spent on the building and the Town Hall Square, and a further £2 million on the fit-out of the arts, community and co-working spaces.

The Trust believes that this substantial investment by FEC in Hornsey Town Hall is to be broadly welcomed.  It will ensure the delivery of a high quality restoration and sensitive refurbishment of the Town Hall, and takes it off the At Risk register.  Crucially it should secure Hornsey Town Hall’s long term future as an historic building and an arts and community venue for all to enjoy, the investment in which we will continue to monitor.

The details are here:

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HTHCT has submitted its response to the planning application.  You can read the full letter here.

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The link to the ward councillors’ open letter may not work: if not, it’s here:

Open Letter to FEC

FEC has just released this press release about the appointment of the arts operator for Hornsey Town Hall as well as the appointment of its first two partners, Jon Gilchrist and Musion.

http://www.restoringhornseytownhall.com/arts_operator_announcement

We believe the greatly-anticipated appointment of Time + Space as well as Jon Gilchrist, former Director at the Bush Theatre, and Musion, is very welcome as is the intention to work closely with local arts providers such as The ArtHouse Crouch End.   We’ve always believed that Hornsey Town Hall has the potential to become a truly vibrant and exciting centre for the arts and the community, and are pleased to see the appointment of an experienced operator. We are looking forward to hearing about the potential programme and the way the community and local culture organisations can play its part. The operator will be observing the Community Use Agreement which the HTHCT lobbied hard to have included in the eventual lease.

Our three Crouch End ward councillors have just received a response from FEC to their open letter about the plans for Hornsey Town Hall;  they you can read it here:

FEC respond to our open letter on Hornsey Town Hall

There’s a link to their letter on the latest posting but you can also read it here:

Open Letter to FEC

The Trust published an article on the need to restore Hornsey Town Hall in the Ham & High.  A pdf of the article is here:

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And the Crouch End Neighbourhood Forum asked us to post their response to it which is here:

http://www.crouchendforum.org.uk/hornsey-town-hall-unknowns-and-imponderables/ .

According to Crouch End Labour on its Twitter feed, the consultation period for the planning application for the restoration and refurbishment of Hornsey Town Hall has been extended to Tuesday 26 September 2017.  Good news. – https://twitter.com/crouchendlabour/status/896012352180682752 –

Crouch End Ward Councillors, Jason Arthur, Natan Doron and Sarah Elliott, have published an open letter to FEC on the recently-submitted planning application.  You can read it here: https://crouchendlabour.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/open-letter-to-fec/

The planning application for the regeneration of Hornsey Town Hall, the residential development to its rear, and the Broadway Annexe has been published.   There are very many documents which can all be accessed here by going to:

http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet

In the Simple Search box, enter the following application numbers.  Then click on the application number in the left hand column to open the list of documents – you’ll need to scroll down.

The deadline for comments is Tuesday 5 September 2017.

HGY/2017/2220  (the main Hornsey Town Hall submission)

HGY/2017/2222 (Listed Building Consent)

HGY/2017/2223 (Broadway Annexe)

Alternatively, these links should work:

http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=315513)

http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=315515

http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=315516

HTHCT will be submitting formal comments in due course.