Hatch End – The Broadway
The planters on The Broadway are blooming – thanks to the generous sponsorship of businesses in Hatch End and its environs. The names of the sponsors are attached to the planters and troughs on the railings. There are still a few without sponsors, so if anyone would like to become a sponsor please contact the Hatch End Association via the website or at info@hatchend.org.
The month of May 2019 saw the arrival of two new Police Constables to Pinner Police Station; veteran Kevin Brooks brings a wealth of experience to the Pinner Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) and Laura Muzikeviciute joins Pinner South SNT from Brent borough.
Contact information: Pinner / Pinner South SNT Tel: 020 8721 2775 / 2991
E: Pinner.snt@met.police.uk
Emergency number: 999 Non-emergency: 101
Follow on Twitter @MPSPinner and @MPSPinnerSouth
PETITION TO TARSAP MEETING AT HARROW COUNCIL ON 31 OCTOBER 2018
On 31 October 2018, Dermot Wilson presented a petition containing 100 signatures from residents in Hillview Road, Grimsdyke Road and Hallam Gardens to Harrow Council requesting that the Council introduce a CPZ in these roads to tackle the problem of non-resident parking. The petition was conducted because the non-resident parking is causing severe congestion for all residents in the immediate area and is worrying residents that emergency vehicles will have severe difficulties in attending any incident in the area.
LITTER PICK-UP – DATES FOR 2019
Saturday 14 September 2019
Please come and help ~ all are welcome
Meet at Hatch End Station car park
10am till noon or for as long as you can manage
We provide gloves, pickers and a safety tabard. When you are finished,
St Anselm’s Church is offering a rewarding refreshment at the church
Help us keep Hatch End a pleasant place to live and work
JANUARY 2019
The HAC and Harrow Council have been successful in their bid for the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund and has been awarded £760,000. The HAC would like to say a massive thank you to all those residents who came to the consultation meeting last June to help with the bid. The bid description is as follows: “The project will improve the civic and cultural infrastructure on the HAC site. It will increase participation in culture, improve the public realm, support job creation and business growth. We will masterplan the HAC site to realise its regeneration potential, for arts, workspace and leisure. In the interim we will convert empty buildings into meanwhile workspace, and replace dilapidated portacabins with modular classrooms. We will expand our outreach and consultation to deliver new provision and increase participation.”
JUNE 2018
Harrow Council and Harrow Arts Centre are making a bid for the GLA Good Growth Fund to invest in the future of Harrow Arts Centre. If successful, the funding will allow Harrow Arts Centre to undertake essential building work to site in Hatch End, including conversion of derelict parts of the site into affordable workspaces for creatives, refurbishment of the Elliott Hall building as well as replacing dilapidated outbuildings with new learning and activity spaces.
The HAC is holding a Project Meeting on Friday 29th June from 6.30pm-8pm at Harrow Arts Centre. This is an opportunity to hear about the proposed bid and for the Council to get your feedback and ideas.
Good Growth Fund Project Meeting
Friday 29th June
6.30pm-8pm
Hatch End Suites 1 & 2, Harrow Arts Centre
OCTOBER 2016
Cabinet Meeting Thursday 13 October 2016
The question and answers at Cabinet are recorded and will be available by Thursday 20 October on the Council website via Windows Media Player and Quick Time on Apple.
Question for the Chair and Cabinet
“The Hatch End Association was very disappointed to read that the council had not been able to agree the future of the Harrow Arts Centre and Headstone Manor with Cultura London. The council press release, we are pleased to note, states services will continue as normal on both sites. However it also states that the Council will explore a ”Different direction” for the Harrow Arts Centre. The HEA and the 6,000 signatories to petitions for maintenance of the Harrow Arts Centre and Headstone Manor are concerned for their future and duration of the ‘Normal Service’. What is the council’s plan for fully consulting the residents of Harrow on any proposed changes to the sites’ estate and usage?
Julian Maw, Co-Chair Hatch End Association”
Response summary
All relevant Stakeholders will be fully consulted
Observation
We have a promise to be fully consulted on future plans.
Supplementary question
The Harrow Arts Centre contains listed building and is surrounded by important green belt connecting the Old Redding to Oxhey strip London perimeter with Pinner Park Farm area. Is it the Council’s intention to build housing on this green belt land or on the developed area of the present Arts Centre and Headstone Monor sites?
Summary Response
All possibilities will be considered will be considered for the future directions for the site.
Observation
Housing for the site and adjacent green belt is not excluded.
September 2016
Failure of Harrow Council and Cultura London to agree handover terms.
Please see below the press release sent out by Cultura London explaining why the Harrow Arts Centre is now in jeopardy.
17M HARROW ARTS CENTRE DEVELOPMENT IN JEOPARDY – FUTURE OF ARTS CENTRE NOW IN DOUBT
ISSUES
* Harrow Council and not for-profit charity Cultura London have been unable to agree final terms for the spin out of Harrow Arts Centre
* Cultura London proposal for £17m development will now not go ahead.
* Final deal fell through when Harrow Council were unable to offer unsullied lease for HAC which would allow the charity to access grants and commercial loans.
BACKGROUND
* The-not-for-profit Charity Cultura London formed in 2015 to take on Harrow Arts Centre, Headstone Manor and Harrow Music Service with no management fee from Harrow Council.
* Cultura London’s plans for Harrow Arts Centre were estimated to bring an estimated £66M boost each year to the local economy.
* Cultura London Chair Andrew Welch said “We are all incredibly disappointed that, at the final hurdle, we will not be permitted to save the arts centre and to really put Harrow on the cultural map”
January 2016
Harrow Council Cabinet Decision on HAC
Harrow Council’s Cabinet agreed this week to hand over the running of Harrow Arts Centre to Cultura London, an independent charitable trust. The charity’s vision is to transform the Arts Centre into a “Southbank Centre for North London” with cinemas, galleries, restaurants, bars and a new, larger theatre to complement the historic Elliott Hall. Cultura London is aiming to raise £3.5 million in the first phase to begin the Arts Centre’s redevelopment. This phase would demolish some of the temporary buildings and bring the cinemas to the site. The local fundraising campaign is a vital element and has already raised more than £30,000 towards the first phase of the development out of a target of £250,000 from this source. If you would like to pledge money to Cultura London’s fundraising effort, call in at the Box Office, phone the pledge line on 8938 3720 or visit www.spacehive.com. You can also find out more by visiting www.culturalondon.uk. All contributions are welcome.
December 2015
HEA support for Cultura London and the way forward –
The Association has today pledged £10,000 in support of Cultura London and the plans for the independent Arts Centre in Hatch End. This major donation meets the objectives of the Association to support the interests of the local community. These interests where clearly expressed by more than 6,000 signature on our petition for the continued provision of an Arts Centre in Harrow. We won a stay of closure for a 12-month period to let independent proposals to be put to the council.
The Association’s Pledge is timed to show the continued local support for the Arts Centre at this critical time. We strongly advocate individual and organisational pledges should be given now to make sure we continue to have an Arts Centre in Harrow.
Update, December 2015
Following the public’s tremendous response to the suggested closure of Harrow Arts Centre and Museum last year, the Arts & Heritage service was given time by Harrow Council to set up a company to manage the services in future. A company, Cultura London, has now been set up with proposed charitable status. It held drop-in sessions for the public to view plans so far and find out how the public can help. Times of public open days were:
Morrison’s, Hatch End
Saturday, 5 December: 3-5pm
Harrow Arts Centre
Wednesday, 9 December: 6-8pm
Thursday, 10 December: 10am-1pm
Thursday, 10 December: 3-5pm
If you didn’t make the drop-in sessions, please take a look at the short film about the project on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93XyFEuEwAE
or take a look at their brochure on this link: CL brochure_v2
A further £250,000 needs to be raised from the community towards the overall target for Phase 1 of £2.5m. If you feel you want to support the project, you can do so at the HAC Box Office, online at www.culturalondon.uk or by phoning 020 8938 3720.
For more information on Cultura London,visit http://www.culturalondon.uk/
Update, May 2015
The business plan for the Harrow Arts Centre was approved at the Council Cabinet meeting on 21 May. A Charitable Trust will be set up to manage the Arts Centre, the Museum and the Music Service. During this financial year, the Trust will be undertaking preparatory work and raising funds. The Council will review progress in October and January.
If all goes to plan, work will start next spring (2016) on Phase 1 – to demolish some of the ancillary buildings and to build a new 240-seat, two-screen cinema with a bar and café, with an aim to open the cinema by the end of the year. In Phase 1, the hall remains as it is.