Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Harrowing
The London Borough of Harrow has become a new and valued Street Play correspondent.
The new pen pal arrangement came to life following an email from a Harrow resident to Street Play's inbox last June. The resident wanted to organise a Street Party with her neighbours but was having problems finding the £1600 that the local authority required to permit the necessary road closure.
£1600!!
Some might say Harrow likes its neighbour Hillingdon (normally they only consider cul-de-sacs for street parties!!) seems to find the idea of bunting and barbecued bangers beyond the pale and does all it can to deter their residents.
Street Play sent a letter asking for an explanation and after a month or two Harrow wrote back offering to reduce the charge, as a one-off for Street Play, to £300.
Street Play wrote back today and explained that £300 is still a lot of money for most Harrow residents and that with the growing popularity in Street Parties the council needed simpler and cheaper road closure procedures.
We await our new pen pals response.
The new pen pal arrangement came to life following an email from a Harrow resident to Street Play's inbox last June. The resident wanted to organise a Street Party with her neighbours but was having problems finding the £1600 that the local authority required to permit the necessary road closure.
£1600!!
Some might say Harrow likes its neighbour Hillingdon (normally they only consider cul-de-sacs for street parties!!) seems to find the idea of bunting and barbecued bangers beyond the pale and does all it can to deter their residents.
Street Play sent a letter asking for an explanation and after a month or two Harrow wrote back offering to reduce the charge, as a one-off for Street Play, to £300.
Street Play wrote back today and explained that £300 is still a lot of money for most Harrow residents and that with the growing popularity in Street Parties the council needed simpler and cheaper road closure procedures.
We await our new pen pals response.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Street Play thanks goes to...
for their delicious donation of bottled drinks to the 10th July Street Party in Ealing. Much happy glugging all round.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Friday, 16 July 2010
And now Boris gives Street Parties the Mayoral thumbs up
Lizzie Noel, the Mayor's Adviser on Social Action and Volunteering responded to a question from Chris Gittens at Streets Alive regarding the problems some Londoners face when dealing with their local council over street closures:
"Thank you for your email highlighting difficulties with street closures.
Please accept my response on behalf of the Mayor.
This issue has previously been brought to our attention and the subject, particularly in respect of the Big Lunch on 18th July, was on the agenda earlier this week at a London Councils meeting chaired by the Mayor.
We intend to keep up the pressure in the two year run-up to the 2012 Games and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and we will continue to raise it in a number of forums."
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