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PARTY IN THE PARK - A SIXTH YEAR OF SUCCESS
The sixth annual Party in the Park in De
Beauvoir Square on
Saturday July 10 was a great success. All the usual free
entertainment was on offer and this year we doubled the number of face
painters
to four. As well as face painting, free activities included a bouncy
castle, magician,
crafts, a football kickabout and children's yoga. Lots of local
organisations had stalls to help it go with a swing. Free books and
toys and goody
bags were given to children. Income from the sale of refreshments and
second-hand books and the raffle and tombola mean we can be sure
of repeating
the party next year
We thank all volunteers who helped and our supporters including The
Benyon Estate, Murphy Group, Tesco and
Waitrose.
More details and pictures.
Distributing
books and toys to
children
Magician Chris Nicholson entertains
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MOLEMAN'S "BLUE PLAQUE"
An unofficial blue plaque has been fixed to the former home in Mortimer Road of "Mole man" WIlliam Lyttle, who died earlier this year. It was put up by local resident Dave Buonaguidi of creative agency Karmarama, who told us: "After talking to him and watching him acquire huge amounts of stuff from all parts of the area and then put it in his own yard while also digging huge pits and tunnels [he] fascinated me, and I liked him, he was always pleasant and polite with me."
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DBA NEWSLETTER
Our latest newsletter for June should have reached you.
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COOT ON THE FROZEN CANAL NEAR WHITMORE BRIDGE
By Hilary Mandleberg, January 4, 2010
DE BEAUVOIR AUTHORS
Two local authors, John Turner and Paul Bolding, have contributed to the latest publication by the Hackney SocietyHackney - Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored: 40 Buildings to Mark 40 Years of the Hackney Society
It is available to pre-order from Amazon. (If you know of any other De Beauvoir contributors, please let us know.)
Got
any nice pictures of De Beauvoir? We could publish them here.
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PLANNING
The Kingsland Conservation Area Advisory Committee, which has an official role to comment on planning applications and covers De Beauvoir, has its own website. It publishes its comments on applications. Email them if you would like to get involved.
If you want to find details of
a planning application, or
see what has been proposed for your road, look at the Council's
planning
website. You can search by street or by individual application if you
know the
number. Then you can comment online on an application.
If you hear from the Council or
some other way about an
application in De Beauvoir, please let us know by email and we will spread the
word.
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REMEMBER DE
BEAVER, the
area newsletter from the 1970s?
There is a copy of the first edition here
(big pdf file)
HACKNEY DEVELOPMENT PLANS
Hackney have produced an update
to the Local Development
Framework, which is to be the replacement for the Unitary Development
Plan as
the outline of planning rules for the borough. It is on their website.
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OUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES
News from Meg
Hillier
MP (April
2010)
Gülay Icoz
Robert Chapman
or reach all of them at DeBeauvoir@Hackney-Labour.org.uk
or
tel 020 8356 3350; mobile 07722 868937; Councillors
have agreed to make sure one of them
deals with each message