Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Could Haringey Council be persuaded to bring Hackney's pioneering play streets scheme to our roads?
Hackney Council have developed a groundbreaking scheme that will close selected streets to through traffic using Temporary Play Street Orders (TPSOs), which allow parents to apply to the council to close their street for a few hours per week or month. Those who live in play streets can still drive to and from their homes, and will be guided at walking pace by volunteer stewards stationed at each end of the street.
This seems like a wonderful idea to me and one that I'd like to see given a try in Haringey. I'd love to be able to close the streets around our local schools for a few hours on Friday afternoons to let kids hang out and play with their friends for example. We could work out a rota so one Ladder street gets closed every Sunday.
Maybe you have other ideas? Could we reclaim the streets for our youngsters even if only for a few hours a week or month? Would Haringey Council be persuaded to give it a go? If Hackney can do it, so can we!
Source: Hackney Gazette
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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As Liz has raised the issue of children's play, can I please put in a word for Tim Gill who writes and blogs and has some great ideas about opening-up and widening children's play experience.
You may have read his pieces from time to time in the Guardian and other places. Click here for his website Rethinking Childhood. You'll see that he helped organise a programme of free events called Open For Play which begins with a free public seminar this coming Wednesday 19 September. Zena and I met Tim briefly last Christmas and he's a very challenging thinker.
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Thérèse, I'm unsure how double parking would work. It seems to me that the Ladder roads are - in effect - three lane streets which, by custom and practice, have two lanes used as a carpark.
An interesting experiment using Google Earth is to "visit" a random city area you don't know and, looking at it from say 50 metres above ground level, observe how much of the space is taken by parking, or access roads. Then asking yourself where children and young people can choose go without being the subject of complaints about noise, balls hitting walls or windows, etc. Or with teenagers, being described as "intimidating" because they're hanging-out.
Juliet Solomon recently pointed out to me the work of Professor Mayer Hillman and the links between transport issues and children's freedoms.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Councillor Canver revealed on Twitter last night that 2 pilots are taking place in N15, St Ann's Ward for this.
We look forward to their rapid expansion to Harringay ward. Lots of us have ideas about how we would like to use the 'play streets' model on roads on the Ladder.
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Permalink Reply by Nilgun Canver on
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Hi Liz, in the first instance I need a group of committed parents on a particular ladder road/s to call for a meeting and I'll be happy to attend with an officer to discuss all the details. Perhaps in the first instance 2 roads? Let me know when you'd like to meet. We'll involve Zena too.
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Yes okay. I've brought it up via Friends of South Harringay, as our idea involved a 'partial play street' around the Junior School on Mattison Road in the summer months for a couple of hours on a Friday after school. It's half-term coming up so will probably not be until after then when I can discuss moving forward on this in our meetings.
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Permalink Reply by Paul W on
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Last Sunday saw Clarendon-Avondale Roads and the Woodlands Park Residents Association's inaugural 'playing out' session--the first play street event in Haringey. It was a great success:
wonderful weather, lovely atmosphere and lots of happy children enjoying the freedom of playing in the road outside their homes.With thanks to all to helped make it possible--especially Cllrs Canver and Brabazon who have been so supportive throughout. And not least to Sam Raphael for kicking the whole thing off last year.
It's taken a while to get sorted, but hopefully now the mechanism's more or less in place it'll be easier for others to start one up. It'd be great to see them all over Haringey.
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Thanks Paul. Well done to you too!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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We walked past and it all looked really well managed by the locals residents. Congratulations.
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Thanks, that's really good to hear.
For anyone thinking of starting their own play street, I really recommend the resources at playingout.net - by the people in Bristol who started it all.
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