Text from Proposal to CLG for Neighbourhood Plan (not successful)
Councillors in Golborne Ward are
planning a number of initiatives to catalyse economic and social regeneration
in the area. These are all focussed on enabling residents, groups of residents
and local businesses to work together in a variety of ways to ‘grow their own’ mixed and diverse communities via projects using their local knowledge, enthusiasm and experience to support or
create sustainable change.
In early 2009 while the Council was
first considering the future of the Edenham Residential Care Home site with a
series of feasibility studies, Cllr EDC asked a local architectural practice (Novarc Studio, now LBMV Architects) to
take on a project working with residents from Edenham Way to envision their own
future for the site. As a former student and guest lecturer at the Bartlett
School of Planning and Architecture, and as a former chair of a community
centre in Bermondsey that was planned entirely by residents, Cllr EDC has some
experience in community planning. The result, ‘A Vision for Edenham’ was
launched in October 2009 and appeared in the architecture press and was widely
publicised; the residents were delighted with the result.
At the time Cllr EDC had discussions
with the following potential partners who all expressed genuine interest in
bringing the project to the next stage: the PCT, who wanted to set up a Health
Centre incorporating three GPS, dental services, and clinics treating prevalent
health problems such as diabetes and circulatory disease; Octavia Housing, who
were keen to investigate the possibility of a 40+ unit Extra Care Home; TMO,
looking at various ways of developing Trellick Tower garage site to provide
income for the HRA; and another housing partner whose name I have been asked to
withhold. It has always been the intention to return to this project and take
it further with a financial viability study; the main restraining factor was a lack
of serious commitment from the Council.
Residents, potential partners and EDC
are very keen to develop these early ideas into a Neighbourhood Plan. The Residents’ Association are very keen
to get back to work on the scheme that they initiated with Novarc Studio in 2009. Meanwhile, the Council is proposing a scheme that proposes almost entirely private residential use, with no community facilities or space whatever.
Councillor Emma
Dent Coad
2 January 2016
PROFILE OF GOLBORNE WARD, Census 2001
Resident type
|
Borough
|
Golborne
|
Disabled age 45-59
|
18%
|
37%
|
Disabled all ages
|
14%
|
21%
|
Annual resident turnover
|
20%
|
10%
|
Non-white
|
21%
|
44%
|
Car owners
|
50%
|
35%
|
One adult w children
|
4%
|
13%
|
Total with children
|
19%
|
35%
|
Total public sector housing
|
26%
|
68%
|
Owner occupied
|
45%
|
19%
|
Unemployment
|
1.7%
|
7%
|
Employed part-time
|
72%
|
58%
|
Employed all
|
71%
|
59%
|
Further Education
|
23%
|
10%
|
Health ‘not good’
|
7%
|
13%
|
Swinbrooke Estate in Golborne is in the
2% most deprived in the country (IMD 2007)
Life expectancy is 12 years less in
Golborne than in the south of the borough
New cases of tuberculosis are
‘significantly worse than England average’
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