[from Islington Gazette]
Six Acres Estate to get facelift
nlnews@archant.co.uk
11 April 2008
How the Six Acres Estate will look
THE 1960s estate where Sex Pistols punk rock legend Jonny Rotten grew up is set to be revamped to make it less dangerous.
The Six Acres Estate, off Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, has long been known as one of [...]
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[from Islington Tribune]
Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 4 April 2008
Environment duo for Finsbury Park
TWO new environmental officers are going on patrol in Finsbury Park this week in an effort to clean up an area with a reputation for grubbiness.
The London boroughs-funded FinFuture launched the scheme to help residents and businesses keep the [...]
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[from QS week]
News - 20/03/2008 - TfL pushes station upgrades
It has £7.8 billion available for capital and operational expenditure but this figure excludes the amount spent on revamping the Underground network under the PPP.
The client said modernisations to Leicester Square and [...]
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[from 24 dash]
French government learns from Hackney housing and regeneration projects
Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing , Local Government on Wednesday 5th March 2008 - 12:45pm
The French government has been learning from pioneering work going on [...]
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Posted in Amwell Court, Blackstock Road, Brownswood Road, Brownswood ward, Crime, FinFuture, Hackney, Kings Crescent estate, People, Police, Portland Rise, Regeneration, Royal Mail, School, Woodberry Down, Youth on 3 March 2008 | No Comments »
Councillors Report – March 08
Kings Crescent estate
Negotiations with the potential new development partners are going well. They have inevitably raised a significant number of issues concerning the draft PDA, so will take some time - at least a couple of months - before we know for certain whether we can proceed with them.The refurbishment of [...]
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[from Haringey Council]
Views sought on second stage of Parkland Walk proposals
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Residents are being invited to give their views on the second part of Haringey Council’s proposals to improve the longest nature reserve in London.
The council has launched a public consultation on the plans for the northern stretch of Parkland Walk, which runs [...]
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Posted in Amwell Court, Blackstock Road, Brownswood Road, Brownswood ward, Crime, FinFuture, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Portland Rise, Regeneration, Woodberry Down, Works, Youth on 11 February 2008 | No Comments »
Council Tax frozen for third year!
Labour Group 15th January
The main business was setting the budget for the coming year. We expect to be able to freeze the Hackney element of the council tax for the third year running, whilst continuing to implement our manifesto commitments, for example doubling the number of teams removing graffiti.
Finfuture
Work should [...]
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Kings Crescent and Alexandra National estates
We are writing with some disappointing news regarding the regeneration plans for these estates. Regular readers of our reports may recall that back last March we appointed new partners to take these forward. In both cases the preferred partners were developers Durkan Ltd with the Metropolitan [...]
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[from Builder & Engineer online]
Hackney gets 2012 Olympic job centre
Monday, 14 January 2008
A new construction centre will help residents get jobs created by the regeneration of Woodberry Down and the 2012 Olympic Games.
Woodberry Works trains local people so they can gain the professional qualifications and experience needed to compete for the thousands of construction jobs [...]
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[from: London Connections blog]
Station Upgrades: Finsbury Park
TfL are planning to install ticket barriers at Finsbury Park, the last ungated tube station of any significance. They’ll also be installing [...]
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