No more clamping! - Islington Council
No more clamping! - Islington Council
No more clamping! - Islington Council
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Sign of the times<br />
Deaf and hearing-impaired residents<br />
can now get borough information<br />
through Contact <strong>Islington</strong>, thanks to a<br />
new videophone pilot.<br />
Contact <strong>Islington</strong> is trialling videophone<br />
access with signing call centre Significan’t.<br />
Deaf and hearing-impaired residents can visit<br />
Contact <strong>Islington</strong> offices on Upper Street, link<br />
to a qualified signer by videophone, who will<br />
translate to Contact <strong>Islington</strong> staff and relay<br />
the information.<br />
Hearing-impaired customers who can access<br />
videophone elsewhere will be able to link to<br />
the signing call centre directly. The signer will<br />
then call Contact <strong>Islington</strong> and relay the<br />
conversation real-time.<br />
This pilot will extend to deaf and hearingimpaired<br />
residents what the rest of us take for<br />
granted – accurate and instant information –<br />
in a format that's right for them.<br />
For <strong>more</strong> information email<br />
✆eoin.joyce@islington.gov.uk<br />
Town hall tours<br />
Planning a wedding? Couples looking<br />
to get married in <strong>Islington</strong> can now<br />
take a virtual tour of the interior of the<br />
town hall!<br />
The 360-degree tours show prospective<br />
couples how their wedding would look if<br />
they decided to use the town hall, on Upper<br />
Street, N1.<br />
Tackling the housing shortage<br />
Private landlords are helping<br />
provide much needed housing.<br />
In a new scheme initiated by <strong>Islington</strong><br />
<strong>Council</strong>, incentives and support are offered<br />
to private landlords to house people<br />
including those living in temporary<br />
accommodation.<br />
If you are a landlord and would like to<br />
get involved or have an empty property<br />
that could benefit from an empty<br />
properties grant contact Dionne<br />
Maxwell on 020 7527 6073 or email<br />
landlord.enquiries@islington.gov.uk<br />
The tour starts outside the building, and takes<br />
couples through the reception, up the main<br />
stairs, into the wedding room and finally the<br />
council chamber, where the ceremony would<br />
be held.<br />
Each image rotates automatically, and also<br />
lets people zoom in and out, or pan to a<br />
particular area.<br />
To see the virtual tours, go to:<br />
http://www.islington.gov.uk/Community/<br />
birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriages/to<br />
wnhallweddings.asp<br />
London’s largest wireless hotzone<br />
Upper Street, <strong>Islington</strong>’s bustling<br />
thoroughfare, took on a new dimension<br />
in serving the community when the<br />
council flicked the switch launching<br />
London’s largest hotzone.<br />
The ‘Technology Mile’, which stretches from<br />
Angel to Highbury Corner, is one mile of<br />
unbroken wireless broadband coverage,<br />
providing residents, workers and visitors with<br />
free access to the internet and council services.<br />
Anyone with wirelessly-enabled devices, such as<br />
laptops, notebooks and PDAs<br />
can access the network via a council landing<br />
page featuring a menu of council services and<br />
information, plus direct access to the world wide<br />
web.<br />
The mile-long network covers the throng of<br />
restaurants, cafes, pubs and bars along Upper<br />
St, all of which can now offer free internet<br />
access to their customers. All key council<br />
services are also accessible on the network of<br />
eight iPlus Points around the borough.<br />
For <strong>more</strong> information call Contact<br />
✆<strong>Islington</strong> on 020 7527 2000.<br />
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