Apple Day In Butterfield Green Community Orchard

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Sunday 11th October 2-5pm

Butterfield Green Users' Group meeting minutes Sept 2009

Please click here for the September 2009 minutes of the Butterfield Green Users' Group.

The minutes are in PDF file format--you may need to install the free Acrobat Reader to view it: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Hackney Parks Newsletter

The Hackney Parks newsletter is a great source for news about all of the parks in Hackney, including Butterfield Green.

To subscribe, email Eleanor.Johnson@hackney.gov.uk.

Some tidbits from the last Hackney Parks newsletter are below to whet your appetite!

L♥VE PARKS WEEK 2010
Love Parks Week runs from the 24th July to 1st August next year. It is a campaign run by GreenSpace to get more people using and enjoying their local parks. We are keen to run a series of events in our parks during the week, and want you to come up with ideas. Previous events across the country have included dog shows, clean up days, fishing, teddy bears picnics, walks, volleyball tournaments, classical concerts, woodland crafts, art walks, fashion shows, mini beasting, kite making, a fish and chips cruise(!) and a groovy grasshoppers event(!) If you have an event suggestion, or want to offer to help run the week next year, please email Sam by the 7thOctober 2009. We are keen to get an outline programme together early to give us time to apply for funding/consult people and organise publicity in the new year. Click here to visit the Love Parks website.

BUTTERFIELD GREEN
Community gardening days take place in Butterfield Green Community Orchard and Park on the second Sunday of every month. All are welcome; tools and gloves are available to borrow and refreshments are provided. The next session is Sunday 13th September, 2-5pm. See the website for further information about the group.

There is lots more to read...contact Eleanor.Johnson@hackney.gov.uk to subscribe.

Gymnastics club at the former ZoomAround building

For those of you who are interested in what is happening with the former ZoomAround building, please follow the news on www.nelgc.org

The gymnastics club that got the lease, and its volunteers, were ready to get everything ready for a September start as soon as they got the news about the permission to lease the building, back in July.

However, the club didn't get the Heads of Terms until August 21st, and the terms required that just one person (supported by 3 guarantors) signed, and that person would be limitlessly liable financially, and the 3 guarantors would also be limitlessly liable... which all seems a bit unreasonable.

Apparently the liability issue is to make sure the council has no loss of rent, and personally I can't understand why a lease can't be drawn up where for example the club would have to provide a deposit for rent for X months, and the guarantors could be liable for X months, thus protecting the council sufficiently, and putting a fixed cap on everyone's liability.

The gymclub is taking legal advice on the issue, but in the meanwhile, everything is standing still, taxmonies are being spent on electricity etc for the squatters, and the earliest start of the classes, if the club gets the building at all?!, will be January.

A great shame since everyone is raring to go, and the waiting lists are still growing by the day.

Although I'm not sure this is official, I've heard that the one other acceptable (by the council) contender for the building was a Soup Kitchen, and personally I would be worried that this might cause extra trouble in the area, whereas I think the gymnastics club, with all the exciting things they seem to offer, is a great idea.

Susanna
Local resident, and NELGC volunteer

Butterfield Green gardening day Sunday 13 Sept 2-5pm

Have your say - plans for Palatine Road

Please see the attached consultation documents which have gone out to local residents.

PJ39042_A3_Palatine_Map.pdf
PJ39042_Palatine_MainDoc_LR.pdf
PJ39042_Palatine_Quest_LR.pdf

Please take note of the deadline (Friday 25/09/2009) for the consultation period.

May I encourage people to respond to the consultation and to comment as much as possible.

That waythe council will get to know what people want etc.

Please email your comments to me info@shakespeareneighbourhood.org.uk or the council: info@hackney.gov.uk

Many thanks