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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.

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Books     Chris Nicholson
Distributing books and toys to children                                 Magician Chris Nicholson entertains

Fiona Darbyshire and Sally Mulready

DBA Chair Fiona Darbyshire chats to Hackney Council's Speaker Sally Mulready
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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."


Moleman plaque

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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 Society
Hackney - 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.)
                                                                        
                                                                                

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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)

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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)

Local Hackney councillors have a blog at http://debeauvoircouncillors.blogspot.com/

They are:  (click to email)
Gülay Icoz
Robert Chapman
Tom Ebbutt
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