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Affordable homes
for Islington
A progressive programme to increase
the availability of affordable, decent
homes by encouraging owners to bring
empty properties in the borough back
into use has its first happy families.
Work started in Holloway Road in November
2001 with a partnership between Islington
Council and Solon Housing Association. A
number of families have already moved into
the nine two bedroom self-contained flats
within the last month.
Hornsey Road properties have been under
renovation since August 2001 and consist of
two three bedroom flats and six two bedroom
flats. Some of the homes are located above
shops using converted, unused or derelict
space.
Niami Muhamed, who recently signed a 25
year temporary contract for one of homes on
Hornsey Road, was previously living in a one
bedroom flat with her three children. After
moving into a new house with three
bedrooms and a garden she said: “I think my
new house is lovely and it means I have a
better quality of life”.
On 30 July 2002 at Highbury
Magistrates Court, Nicholas Fowler
pleaded guilty to a charge under the
Explosives Act 1875 for failing to store
fireworks correctly at his City Road
premises. He was fined £350 ordered
to pay costs of £150.
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For
Flash bang wallop
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For
more information
call Claudette Morgan
020 7527 6364.
advice about how
fireworks can be
stored, and how many,
contact trading
standards on
020 7527 3198.
A couple of weeks earlier Jacqueline Stokes
was fined £200 and ordered to pay costs of
£150 after trading standards visited her shop
at Newington Green and discovered fireworks
in open boxes in a store room and also found
that the amounts in the shop exceeded the
maximum weight of 250kg.
All shopkeepers who
sell fireworks must
store them safely
Handy contacts
in this issue
A-Z Online
www.islington.gov.uk
Aquaterra
020 7253 5365
www.aquaterra.org
Arsenal Community Information
Line 0845 600 2020
Congestion Charging
0845 900 1234
www.cclondon.com
Council Benefit Fraud Hotline
020 7527 4877
binvestigation@islington.gov.uk
Education Welfare
020 7527 5833
Energy efficiency advice
0800 838650
energy.advice@islington.gov.uk
European funding
020 7527 3496
Eyes for Islington
020 7527 2023
Football Development Manager
020 7686 8810
michael.macneill@aquaterra.org
Graffiti removal (parks)
020 7253 5365
020 7527 4971
Graffiti removal (private property)
020 7527 4692
Move out of London?
020 7527 4372
Asylum Team
020 7527 7138
Islington Museum
020 7527 2837
islington.museum@islington.gov.uk
Keep Safe
020 7527 3394
National Fraud Watch Hotline
0500 500 777
Parking permits
020 7527 1338/39/40
Police Child Protection Unit
020 7421 0307
Summer University
020 7527 5558
summeruniversity@islington.gov.uk
Trading Standards
020 7527 3198
Your Views
020 7527 3416
residents.news@islington.gov.uk
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