Amenities

Are we happy with our parks and greenspaces? Do we want more allotments? are dentists and gp’s in the right places? What do you think the neighbourhood plan should say about amenities? This is what you said:

1. “Ecological restoration”

2. “More activities and money for young people – Pedro good job”

3. “We do not have enough schools”

4. “Hydro-electrical turbine – Lea bridge weir for community benefit”

5. “Active strong neighbourhood Centres”

6. “More information about local venues and halls for hire”

7. “Positive provision of shared space – shops, sports venues, cultural buildings, public houses, worship”

8. Repair Ecosystem”

9. “Encourage more street/estate parties – everyone likes food and music”

10. “children’s centres in the area are excellent”

11. “importance of being able to walk to school, socialise etc”

12. Identify key locations/sites where renewables are appropriate e.g. EDF site Millfields park for micro solar power plant

13. A decent boozer selling decent beer

14. More cycle parking generally

15. Boris bike stand or more places to lock up bikes

16. Want a childrens centres at Millfields

17. Provide clean public toilets

18. Make adventure playground safer for younger children

19. Flower beds and more trees +1

20. Circle of trees in Millfields Park -special place – more uses please +2

21. Cricket Pavillion on Millfields +2

22. Fix lights on Millfields Park basketball court

23. More bins, especially on residential streets there are none so always rubbish left

24. An enclosed dog run on the Marshes/Mabley Green

25. Provide pavement on roadside of traffic island on Median Road

26. Keep Lower Clapton health centre but redevelop and make better use of site

27. Phone coverage on Daubeney Road is so rubbish. Can it be made better?!

28. Who owns west end of terrace on Blurton Road? Opportunity!

29. Planning permission for building 160+162 Chatsworth Rd is not being adhered to. Is this happening elsewhere?

30. Reinstate bandstand on Millfields +5

31. Fine those who put out rubbish on wrong day +1

32. Culture of flytipping +2

33. Kids playground for Millfields +3

34. Solar power station on the roof of transformers +1

35. Extend Leaside Conservation Area +1

36. Bring back campsite +2

37. Millfields Community School should have a childrens centre

38. More places to eat in the evenings

39. Give us a proper fish and chips!

40. Remove Hackney pavement signage advertising billboards

41. Create new entrances to Clapton Park +1

42. Within the N Bevan Estate is always a lot of rubbish in front of the large bins- this causes rats and not nice to see.

43. Seating to enjoy food purchased from market

44. Wash streets after public building works

45. More events and better signage for shops, square and other facilities in this part of the estate

46. An NHS doctors surgery on Chatsworth Road?

47. Bury telecom wires +2

48. Opportunity to promote food growing across area +1

49. Lollipop lady needed (Homerton High Street?)

50. Enforce rubbish clearance from canal boats. Mooring facilities?

51. Stop dumping dunlace/elderfield corner

52. Permitted development is too much. Gardens are too small

53. Campsite back +4

54. Lack of connectivity- cut off from rest of area +2

55. A ‘Tour de Clapton’ bike race?

56. Dangerous dogs +1

57. More bins in the street – might help dog poo problem

58. Dog poo bins with bags

59. Change Daubeny Rd council garages into allotments

60. Improve upkeep and landscaping of parks +2

61. Have events in the parks

62. More estate/street parties +1

63. Invest in new planting, play and hills in Clapton Park

64. Clean canal as much as cleaned during olympics +3

65. More upkeep/improvement of park +1

66. Allow houseboats to stay in local area and develop community

67. The campsite was a brilliant addition to this area and put Chatsworth Road on the map long before this ‘trendy wave’

68. Too much litter left after football +2

69. Improved links for pedestrians to river and in/out of Sherry’s Wharf estate

70. Parks! we love them! +4

71. River frontage

72. More organised sports sessions

73. Sports spaces

74. Keep the marshes free of large music events- The Radio 1 event caused huge damage

75. Too much dog poo+7 Start campaign

76. Move Hackney Waste Depot to industrial site and re-use space for sports centre or something

77. Garbage collection leaves more garbage! More containers and collectors should be more careful while cleaning

78. More youth projects

79. Engage with Rushmore School

80. More trees on underplanted

81. Keep the snooker hall which used to be a cinema, for leisure/community use. A community cinema, kitchen and bar would be nice.

82. Convert old paddling pool (in MIllfields) into a piazza for old people playing Boule

83. Need better doctors – later opening – polyclinic?

84. Need a dentists +1

85. More could be made of Millfields in the summer

86. Want better facilities at Millfield playground

87. Make something of building at end of Mildenhall Road, beside Clapton Ponds

88. Playground on Millfields Southorn by hospital

89. Why doesn’t Chat’s Palace advertise itself more?

90. Need better communication between community orgs and projects- newsletter for the area please

91. Community Creche? (There is Stepping Stones)

92. Support for Chats Palace – bring back its ‘geony’!

93. More butterflies

94. A few more bins

95. Co-op kitchen for market traders, local producers, would be great!

96. Film showing in circle of trees in the summer was fantastic- more of that

97. Playground for the kids in South Millfields park +6

98. More trees and flowers on Chatsworth Road

99. Encourage cafes and restaurants to have free wifi to attract business

100. Open up adventure playground so that it can have a positive effect on green space beside, which needs revitalised.

101. Make more of proximity to ice rink, riding centre, golf course and help make them better

102. Lots of good little community projects going on. Make more of social media and meetups to get them together and to publicise to wider community

103. Enforcement- 1. bike theft, 2. small planning issues (not just Tesco)

104. Tree planting on Millfields Park from Leabridge Rd angle- to hide hideous substation site

105. Make it more politically unacceptable to let your dog shit on the streets

106. Yearly arts festival

107. Connectivity between east and west Chatsworth Road

108. Close the road for the market / No way!

109. Snooker Hall- what about a Sunstone type gym and swim pool?

110. make adventure playground and green space beside more of a destination and nice to sit in and feel safer

111. More could be made of library

112. Lea Surgery frontage needs improved

113. Public events eg. fairs

114. More table tennis tables and shops to old bats and balls

115. More spaces for people to put on interesting activities

116. Natural bathing pond? Could one of the existing filter beds be converted? Or something nearby? +2

117. Chats Palace looks rather grotty against new schools and housing. Need major facelift or high profile anchor tenant.

118. Clapton has some busy cycle lanes. We should promote – bike parking, workshops, ‘cycle through’ coffee and bakery stops.

119. Private gym/sports facilities, encourage health and fitness

120. Gardening clubs and shed where people can hire tools and get tips and help each other

121. Create better links with Lea Valley Park and nature reserve (as much is in Waltham Forest, Hackney residents don’t hear about events)

122. Seating areas along Chatsworth +6 / -1

123. Brooksby Toilets open for community purpose or cool bar!

124. More trees. Plant trees on Brooksby’s/Chats and more

125. In the middle of the Clifden and Dunlace block, there is an area for sale. Could be artist’s workshops or allotments. NOT more isolated mews housing.

126. Flood lights on Clapton Park

127. Work with Rushmore School. Develop community use facilities.

128. Tree planting/greening along Homerton High St. (make it nicer to walk/cycle along) Hub around library? +1

129. Rework this area (between Roding and Daubeney Road) of Homerton High Street. Could there be a community hub cafe offering dedicated work experience/apprenticeships with an outdoor garden for young children with a sit in sand pit / natural climbing frame..etc…

130. Don’t want high street chains / Why not? Employment and lower priced food for low wage earners

131. Hi speed community broadband

132. Street cleaning during olympics v. welcome. More street cleaning please

133. The market has hugely improved business for shops / And outpriced others!

134. Table tennis tables on Millfield Park

135. Improve communication- consult/involve local residents

136. Renewable energy – NO NUCLEAR!

137. We feel Chats Palace to be terribly underused. Bad management possibly.

138. Existing dental practice on Homerton High Street looks dreadful. Could we have a larger practice that appears fit for purpose to the whole community?

139. Tea/coffee morning (Chats Palace?) with IT training to reduce digital divide +2

140. Hot desking shared office hub in chats palace current photographic studio

141. Brooksby Walk toilets to re-open

142. Chats Palace- more events eg. gigs, nights eg. Like the Mill@Walthamstow ESOL classes, OAP groups- Bring it to life!

143. Chats events need far more publicity

144. Chats Palace needs to be valued and nurtured as our community arts space. Funding must be secured for an advertised site and programme manager. This is the space where all members of this community should feel welcome and where events and activities could be provided to break down barriers and develop sharing/ownership +1

145. Better publicising of local/community events- centralised advertising point- online, physical. Currently just stumble across things

146. Dog wardens need to be actively at work in the area- too many owners just dont clear up the dog poo +3

147. Stolen bikes regularly for sale. Where are the police?

148. Chats palace could more valued and promoted more.

149. Lots more opportunities for young people. Need to consult formally, informally but specifically with young people. They need to have a stake in what’s going on.

150. Chats palace admin may need to be more  self promoting. Pro-active.