“A central courtyard provides an active and high-quality public space at the heart of the site, maintaining an outdoor focal point for community activity and encouraging interaction of passers-by, residents and community centre users.”
Care has also been taken to reduce impact on existing neighbours by setting back or recessing all private amenity and providing solid balustrade walls. A central courtyard provides an active and high-quality public space at the heart of the site, maintaining an outdoor focal point for community activity and encouraging interaction of passers-by, residents and community centre users. The central courtyard is connected to the north and south by a new public route that was identified through local consultation.
PLANNING HISTORY The proposals for the site were developed with local planning and conservation officers over a year period. The team was committed to bringing as much of the community along on the journey as possible by designing in an open and responsive manner and feeding back at regular events and in a range of media. This resulted in a high number of design iterations that demonstrated the team had listened to local concerns. The scheme was granted planning consent in June 2017.
We are pleased to announce that Designers Guild have agreed to design our ground floor area. This is a new partnership which will result in the creation of a fabulous hotel standard welcome. The space will also be fitted out by the Designers Guild team. Our redevelopment is on track!
Also note that in the spring a brochure will be produced with both halls timetables, along with brand new sessions for under 5s and 60 plus sessions
The following article appeared in the 22nd November 2018 issue of the Camden New Journal
Just their cup of tea First dementia café is ‘warm and friendly’
WHAT could be better than a delicious meal washed down with a nice cup of tea while enjoying a natter with friends?
Users and volunteers at the Dementia Café, launched this week at Highgate Newtown Community Centre, agree that such a recipe is a winner. They packed the Bertram Street centre on Tuesday to enjoy £2.50 lunches and a host of activities.
The café is the brainchild of Labour councillor Larraine Revah, who works at the centre. Her 90-year-old mother Sonia Greenwald is a regular visitor, and her experiences prompted Larraine to set up the café.
“My mum has dementia and she was really quite bored being at home all day,” Cllr Revah said. “She felt fed up because she found it hard to get out and about. She comes to the centre, does some art, joins in a quiz, has a sing-song. “We wanted to take this a step further and set up the first dementia café in Camden. We are going to have museums coming in to host memory sessions, and lots of arts and crafts and games – all over a nice cup of tea.”
Older people’s champion, Labour councillor Pat Callaghan, added: “We hope this will be the first of many. We hope people come from right across Camden to join us every week.”
Eddie Caveney brought his mother Jean, 90, to the café after reading about it in the New Journal. “You can just turn up and there is no need to pay anything. It is nice to come out with my mum to a place that feels warm and friendly.”
The Photograph features Highgate Councillor Anna Wright and Celia Mitchell
We will be holding our under 5’s Christmas ????party on Friday 14th December from 10.30am at Highgate Newtown Community centre main hall. Tickets only (first come basis)
????Children’s entertainer for 1 hour
Face painting
Christmas card making
Music
Food and drink
Each child will receive a small gift from Father Christmas ????
Contact Nadine Reynolds for more details Children’s Service Manager Highgate Newtown Community Centre Mobile: 07415200614 Email: neddylarkin@aol.co.uk
Highgate Newtown Community Centre main hall 25 Bertram Street London N195DQ
The current Highgate Newtown Community Centre will close for rebuilding on March 1st 2019
We would like to thank all the people that have supported us through this time, and we look forward to coming back into a brand new building in 2020
Our web site is being updated with new timetables as we move into new venues whilst the build takes place . Please keep an eye out from Jan 5th 2019 for the latest information.
It has been a while since the last Camden consultation exercise considered the redevelopment of the community centre at Bertram Street. Camden have now concluded that the proposal granted planning permission last year is not currently viable.
The board of trustees of HNCC are very disappointed that the redevelopment of our community centre is therefore on hold while options are considered by Camden.
We are still hoping that a suitable proposal can be brought forward by Camden to be considered by the board and discussed with the community which will provide us with a centre of which we can all feel proud.
Hi, I’m Mandy. I am a beekeeper and a member of the British Beekeepers Association. I will be setting up a beehive at Highgate Newtown this summer. Bees are vitally important to the planet. They pollinate plants which ensures their survival and by extension, ours. And of course they make delicious honey!
They are not dangerous and very rarely sting, but wasps give them a bad name. People often mistake wasps for bees but while wasps are aggressive, bees are generally placid.
I am excited to introduce these amazing creatures to the community and will be running bee workshops and events for both children and adults where you can learn all about bees. We will also be having taster days once we get our first batch of our organic, wildflower honey.
Look out for these on our events page in the coming months.
