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In response to the Mayor’s announcement that the regeneration of Fore Street in Angel Edmonton and two projects in Haringey, Adaptive Wood Green and Market Garden City, will all receive significant investment from the final round of City Hall’s Good Growth Fund, local London Assembly Member, Joanne McCartney AM, said:
“It is fantastic to see these innovative projects receive this vital City Hall investment targeted at regenerating and rejuvenating our community for the benefit of local people.
“This is a positive step that will help to repair some of the damage wrought by a decade of austerity on our high streets and the social and cultural fabric of our neighbourhoods”.
Notes to editors
- A full list of successful projects from the final round of the Mayor’s Good Growth Fund can be found below:
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Project and applicant |
Description |
Funding allocated |
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Adaptive Wood Green, London Borough of Haringey |
A strategic area-based regeneration project that includes co-designed youth and social inclusion projects and the creation of safe routes to schools in Wood Green and Noel Park to improve street greening, air quality and promote active travel. The project also includes an innovative approach to address issues facing the local high street using a town centre re-positioning strategy and a pilot project to convert an existing retail unit into a piece of civic infrastructure. |
£972,500 |
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Fore Street, Angel Edmonton, London Borough of Enfield |
A high street focused local regeneration project based in Angel Edmonton comprising an ‘urban room’ for community engagement, the creation of low-cost office and retail space in disused garages and a laundry yard, and public realm improvements at targeted spots along Fore Street. The project also includes a programme of business support, the creation of employment and skills opportunities and the development of a strategic area plan. |
£1,100,000 |
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Green Street and Queens Market, London Borough of Newham |
A strategic town centre project that includes improving Green Street high street and intensifies Queen's Market by bringing in new programmes and activities needed in the town centre as identified by the local community. |
£2,000,000 |
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Market Garden City, London Borough of Waltham Forest and London Borough of Haringey |
To create two growing hubs in LB Waltham Forest and LB Haringey for community food education and distribution, creating opportunities for skills, employment and connection with nature for local people. The project will directly engage diverse local groups through skills, training, engagement and volunteer programmes, and is taking an innovative design approach that champions low carbon technologies and circular economy design principles |
£1,195,700 |
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Reimagining Rich Mix, Rich Mix Cultural Foundation (Hackney) |
An expansion of Rich Mix to introduce a new open ground floor, expanded Stage area, a new frontage onto Redchurch Street and enhanced frontage onto Bethnal Green Road, increasing free or low-cost performance and exhibition space and learning space for the benefit of BAME local, and other diverse artists, residents and school children. |
£550,000 |
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Securing the future of The Yard Theatre and Hub67 The Yard Theatre (Hackney) |
New build community focused theatre and community hub, to secure the long-term home of a nationally significant cultural organisation. The project includes new programmes to increase the rate of participation amongst a diverse community into opportunities provided through the creative industries. Combining The Yard and Hub67 into one place help to create social inclusive space in Hackney. |
£1,140,000 |
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Music and Dance Urban Developments (Newham) |
A new home for Urban Development and East London Dance within the Sugar House Island development will provide affordable workspace, dance facilities, recording studios and teaching space; aiming to address the needs of young people from east London helping them to access opportunities in the creative industries. |
£350,000 |
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Harrow Road Place Plan, Westminster City Council |
Harrow Road Place Plan is a place-based strategy and delivery plan aimed at supporting one of London’s most deprived communities, with the development of key capital projects along the high street, including the Maida Hill Market support. |
£900,000 |
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North End Road - A Community Led Re-Design, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham |
A multi-faceted place-based project focused on improving the high street and market along North End Road. |
£1,000,000 |
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Open Havelock, Catalyst Housing Ltd (Lewisham) |
To deliver a new canoe club, multi-use sports facility, and workspace, alongside a new play space within the Havelock Estate utilising a series of undercroft spaces that are currently fenced off. The project will also improve the public realm to the Estate's edge with the Grand Union Canal and deliver an innovative evaluation programme to monitor the long-term impact. |
£517,587 |
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Westway Community Street, Westway Trust (Kensington & Chelsea) |
The 'Community Street' is a ten-year vision providing physical improvements and renewal as well as better economic opportunities for people in North Kensington. It aims to bring together what is currently a series of disjointed spaces, to create a more cohesive place to better support the community. This project builds on the findings of the previous co-design urban strategy and delivery plan for the 23 hectares underneath the Westway. |
£1,346,000 |
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Centre of Memory and Learning: 28 Penton Street, The Liliesleaf Trust UK (Islington) |
To create the first space to engage users in the UK’s role in the international Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Redeveloping 28 Penton Street, the former London HQ of the African National Congress (ANC), the project will inspire Londoners through a programme of education and engagement drawing from the legacy of one of the most powerful social histories of the 20th Century. |
£1,000,000 |
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Ludham Undercroft, London School of Mosaic (Camden) |
To address the lack of affordable artist workspace in Camden by creating private and rented studios and flexible membership options for local artists. Camden is supportive. |
£766,000 |
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Securing a future home, King's Head Theatre (Islington) |
After 49 years, the King’s Head Theatre, one of London’s longest running and best loved LGBTQ+ venues, is moving and evolving into the home of young creative theatre companies, with a purpose-built new theatre, a main auditorium, a studio theatre and cafe/bar providing a creative hub with a dedicated training programme. It will also provide training and mentoring for the next generation of small creative businesses. |
£800,000 |
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West London Disability Hub, Action on Disability (Hammersmith) |
To create a new community and service centre for disabled Londoners. The centre will provide benefits advice, employability training, employer training as well as independent living courses. The works will fit out a ground floor unit within a new-build development, as well as create a new community garden space at the back of the community centre. |
£153,670 |
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Connecting Camberwell, Southwark Council |
To improve and unlock key areas of public realm that are most used by vulnerable people and local businesses as well as provide improvements to the high street including shop front improvements, meanwhile activation, business support and public art. The project is underpinned by the new Area Plan and engagement with a focus on local young people. |
£1,499,000 |
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Connecting Kenley, Croydon Council |
Based on in-depth local engagement, the project will provide a coordinated package of public realm, community space, sustainable transport and business support measures to bring together different parts of the community and provide civic infrastructure to enable good growth. The development of the Community Plan has already galvanised local stakeholders and established a community steering group. |
£878,776 |
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Old Vic Annex: A New Civic Cultural and Social Hub, The Old Vic Theatre Trust (Southwrk) |
The project will deliver a new five-storey education, community and artist development space to form a social hub housing at Clore Learning Centre, a flexible studio space and a café-workspace with a play library for young and local people. |
£500,000 |
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Raise the Barn, Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses (Lambeth) |
To create a flexible, multi-functional space with a teaching kitchen, classroom and outdoor learning yard at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses. |
£160,000 |
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Sutton Works, London Borough of Sutton – Opportunity Sutton |
As part of a strategic plan to diversify Sutton Town Centre, the council has purchased the former BHS building on the high street to create a new multi-use workspace and community facility called ‘Sutton Works’. The project will provide affordable and flexible workspace, a publicly accessible roof garden and a programme of free community events. Sutton Works is part of the council’s plan to develop a life science cluster in the Borough and will provide a high street venue to showcase the opportunity. |
£1,300,000 |
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The Charlton Workstack, The Greenwich Enterprise Board |
The Charlton Workstack project is an innovative new approach to industrial intensification. It is a new building providing 14 new stacked industrial workspaces in Charlton Riverside. Delivered by the Greenwich Enterprise Board, the spaces will provide much needed high-quality industrial workspace in an area undergoing significant regeneration. |
£700,000 |
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Thomas' Lane Yard, London Borough of Lewisham |
£1,650,000 |
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Fleet electrification infrastructure development, London Borough of Hackney |
A series of improvements to Broadway Market and surrounding areas, with an ultimate vision of reducing vehicular through-traffic and increasing cycling. This will consist of a bus gate, removal and re-allocation of parking area to public realm, clean air route and a wider package of interventions to compliment an expanded Zero Emissions Network. |
£1,485,000 |
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London Low Emission Waterways, London Borough of Camden |
To reduce pollution on waterways in Camden by targeting canal users who rely on diesel power to generate electricity at mooring spots. This will pilot the installation of electric chargers for boats at 6 locations, allowing users to receive power from the Grid. |
£65,500 |
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South Central Hackney Air Quality/ Islington Council |
To electrify Islington's refuge collection fleet through the provision of up to 150 smart chargers at the Waste and Recycling Centre. This will help minimise the grid connection requirement, while also providing a charging provision for the entire EV-ready council fleet. To allow this, power capacity must be upgraded to 2600kVA, made possible through a back-office management system. |
£386,000 |
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The Grid Project, Film London (Hackney) |
To install mains electrical supply cabinets at 3 film unit bases at three parks across London, to stop the usage of diesel generators. This will be available primarily for TV/Film use, but will also meet power requirements for cultural, sports and music events. Usage will be enforced as a mandatory requirement by Local Authorities and Royal Parks. The scheme will pilot at Victoria Park. |
£402,282 |
- Joanne McCartney AM is the London Assembly Member for Enfield & Haringey.