HARINGEY COUNCIL UPDATES
Hornsey Town Hall update
Cllr Ruth Gordon, Cabinet Member for Placemaking and the Local Economy has issued a statement on Hornsey Town Hall.
“We share local residents’ disappointment at the continued delays in bringing forward proposals for the arts centre element of the project at Hornsey Town Hall. It is a positive step that a meeting with Hornsey Town Hall Trust has finally taken place.
“The Council, along with community representatives, will be assessing Far East Consortium (FEC)’s proposals for activating the cultural and community spaces to see whether they meet the terms of their obligations and previous commitments. We will continue to press FEC hard and expect them to meet their obligations.
“We have been assured by FEC that any news regarding the potential sale or acquisition of the Hornsey Town Hall development are purely speculative, and that no agreement has been reached with any buyer or partner to speak of.
“We have already, and will continue to, encourage FEC to engage with our community; to communicate a more definitive and deliverable timeline, given the delays the development has already experienced; and to share their updated vision for the future of the arts centre.
“The council will continue to work as closely as possible with FEC, to ensure that the ambitions for the centre and our community are met and critically, how our community will be able to feed into these new processes.”
Interim library hours to be introduced
Residents will benefit from increased certainty over library opening hours
The shake-up follows the intermittent partial or full closure of some of Haringey’s facilities on isolated days in the last few months due solely to staff shortages.
It comes after careful consideration of staffing levels, room bookings and pre-booked events.
This interim way of working begins on Monday 3 February pending the move to a new, permanent timetable in July 2025 following the decision to reduce opening hours in the face of growing budget pressures.
Cllr Emily Arkell, Haringey Council’s Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure, said:
Libraries are important spaces for our communities and I want to apologise for the recent disruption to opening hours because of staff shortages.
We appreciate this has meant occasional closures at relatively short notice and are introducing this temporary measure to ensure residents have some certainty over when and where their local library will be open for a visit.
Our key priority is to ensure residents have notification of set operating hours over the next few months ahead of planned changes in the summer and hope this solution will be beneficial to our users.
The interim service hours are as follows:
Alexandra Park: Monday: 9am-1pm. Tuesday: Closed. Wednesday: 10am-7pm. Thursday:9am-7pm. Friday: 9am-7pm. Saturday: 9am-5pm*. Sunday: Closed.
Highgate: Monday: 9am-7pm. Tuesday: 9am-7pm. Wednesday: Closed. Thursday: 9am-1pm. Friday: 9am-7pm. Saturday: 9am-5pm*. Sunday: Closed.
Hornsey: Monday: 9am-7pm. Tuesday: 9am-7pm. Wednesday: 10am-7pm. Thursday: 9am-7pm. Friday: 9am-7pm. Saturday: 9am-5pm. Sunday: 12noon-4pm.
