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Community Cash in both Camden and Haringey - please have your say
Respond now to Camden CiL consultation - 5 days to go
How would you spend £40,000pa in Highgate ward Camden?
Camden councillors are asking residents how to spend the Highgate share of the CiL (developers tax). They estimate it will be worth around £40,000 pa from 2018 to be shared across the ward. The CiL wish-list has been compiled with both the Highgate and Dartmouth Park Neighbourhood Forums so is especially relevant to the Camden side of N6. Please take 2 or 3 minutes to vote. Projects cover both N6 and NW5, and you're also free to add your own ideas.
Camden has reiterated its commitment to the Localism Act and confirmed 'Where a Neighbourhood Plan has been approved at referendum the priorities contained in the Plan...should be carried across into local priorities'. That means CiL spending! We anticipate our Plan will be going to referendum later this year which means the Neighbourhood Forum will have an on-going say in what happens to CiL monies. Our website will always be open to suggestions so please let us know whenever you have any ideas.
And Community Cash from Haringey too
Following several meetings with senior Haringey officers, the Highgate and Crouch End Forums were recently invited to Haringey to speak to councillors on how to administer CiL monies across the Borough. Haringey anticipates some substantial sums in N6 so please, have your say.
We stressed the importance of working closely with communities, and that the Forums represent all the organisations in their areas. As a fully-recognised and constituted Forum we will monitor both the application of Plan objectives and policies, and the CIL spending that flows from them, for the forseeable future. We made it clear that CiL is first and foremost a tax for the community as a whole to spend, not just one group, and that local councillors should be very much involved. We proposed CiL lists should be permanently open to suggestions, with public meetings twice a year hosted by the Forum.
We've refined our original CIL list and we'd like your comments, but if you think something's missing please add it. It will be permanently live on the website.
Friends of the Bowl
Following multiple discussions and visits to other sites which preserve urban open land for the community, the Friends of the Bowl have fleshed out their vision and suggested various options. The result is set out here. It's still a work in progress and they welcome any thoughts.
Neighbourhood Plan consultation
The second draft of the Neighbourhood Plan is out for consultation until 7th February. You can read it online or look at a hard copy in the Shepherds Hill library, Jacksons Lane Community Centre, the Highgate Society and Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution.
You'll find policies to support our retailers, preserve Highgate's smaller open spaces, protect our conservation areas and provide guidance on basement developments. Others deal with housing, transport and our community. After extensive feedback we've also refined the 5 key development sites. Please let us know what you think.The consultation is open until 7th February and we will be out and about to promote it over the next few weeks.
The Neighbourhood Plan is published in tandem with an independently produced SEA. There is a copy on the website on the Plan pages and comments on this are also invited.
Rachel Allison
Chair, Highgate Neighbourhood Forum
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