Dear Residents;
Thank you so much for joining us at the first Ward forum on the
21st June at Jubilee School, we enjoyed meeting you all; and we share your passion for
Cazenove. Our hope is that our ward
forums will grow and enable us, as a community, to improve how we work and live
together.
We have captured some of the key actions, and thoughts for
the future, from the meeting. We will
let you know how we are progressing on them before we meet again and do let us
know if there is anything we have missed.
Kind regards,
Councillor Dawood-Ebrahim Akhoon
Councillor Abraham Jacobson
Councillor Ian David Sharer
Meeting Actions
1 - Cleaner Cazenove
Immediate actions
·
Councillors to talk to shop owners on Oldhill Street
regarding their bins, can we do anything simply locally to improve how these
are managed?
·
Council officer to investigate funding
opportunities for street scene, with a mind to improving bin storage
facilities.
Longer term considerations
·
Communicating recycling. What can be recycled? when is it collected? don’t put your bags out early, what are the council contact numbers? Could this all be put on a fridge magnet?
·
Improve communities knowledge and appreciation
of our street cleaners, who are they? Do we have the same ones all the time? can we thank them? How can we help them?
2 - Celebrating our diversity in Cazenove
Immediate actions
·
Councillors to meet with local Imam at North
London Mosque regarding Ramadan, and discuss ensuring that considerations for
neighbours, particularly before and after prayers, are incorporated into the
sermon. But also making sure that
residents are aware of the dates of key events, such as Laylat al-Qadr. Participants at the ward forum were keen not
only to be aware of the dates, but also to understand the meaning of the event
and share it as a community.
Longer term considerations
·
There are many events across the cultures in the
ward, most of which are quiet and peaceful.
But in all communities there are key celebrations and times of the year,
not all of them religious, which can, sometimes cause noise. It would be good to focus a community event
on better understanding of these times, and celebrate them together. Participants at the forum were keen on the
idea of a shared calendar.
3 - Street Safety
As a community you were also concerned about street
safety. #
Immediate Actions
Councillors to join residents in a walk of Cazenove Road to
looking at the speeding issues, and investigate why street signs, warnings, and
enforcement were at different levels to other areas.
Longer term considerations
There were particular concerns about some of the changes to
the Transport for London
crossings and safety barriers, we have already discussed these with the lead
member; and we will feed back on progress at later meetings.
4 - Other information
Co-mingling paper.
Link to Sustainable Hackney
Ward website link
