Your Conservative Councillors are proud to support Community initiatives.

Your Conservative Councillors are proud to support Community initiatives.

 

 

Since being elected, your community Councillors, Harvey Cohen, Darren Solomons and Andrew Zucker have been delighted to have used their Ward Improvement Money to support initiatives within Borehamwood.

 

Councillor Cohen attended the management meeting of Aberford Hall Community Centre and heard about the wonderful work that Peter Roach and his committee did to maintain the viability of this important community resource. At the meeting the view was that money was needed to help with the refurbishment of the interior of the building. Councillor Cohen and his colleagues decided to use their allocation to provide new carpets for the Hall.

 

Mencap wanted to put on a gala show to showcase many of our wonderful community groups at the Ark Theatre. They couldn't do it without the support of your local Councillors and Hertsmere Borough Council who have provided money for sets and special effects .

 

Meryfield Primary School in Theobald Street create a great community spirit throughout the school and one way they do this is through sport. Yet , for their football teams, the children had to use their school jumpers and PE shorts as the school didn't have the funds to kit all the team.

We are delighted to use our funding from Hertsmere Borough Council to be able to provide the team with a kit they can be proud of for September.

 

We are always looking for ways to help the wonderful groups of volunteers within our great Community of Borehamwood. Please contact us if you know of any deserving groups.

Your local Conservative Councillors fight to save Clarendon Park

 

After pledging to support residents in their fight to stop a proposed redevelopment of Clarendon Park, Councillor Harvey Cohen spoke at a recent meeting of the Executive at Hertsmere Borough Council.

At that meeting, officers had put forward a proposal to redevelop part of Clarendon Park and a disused building.

 

Local Councillors, Harvey Cohen and Andrew Zucker had pledged at a public meeting that they convened last year that they would do all they can to stop any plans to lose part of Clarendon Park.

 

At the meeting of the executive, Councillor Cohen spoke about the importance of Urban green spaces and parks.

"People need parks. Good parks provide a place for rest and relaxation, but more importantly they are places for spontaneous social interaction. Places with good social capital are stable, prosperous places where people want to live and work. It is not easy to build social capital, but it easy to build the spaces where social capital can form, and small, urban parks are some of the very best spaces for this. We should not be reducing them."

 

Whilst agreeing that the disused and run-down building in the park needs redeveloping, Councillors Cohen and Zucker urged the officers of the Council to re-think their plans and come up with a new idea to which actually involves upgrading the facilities of the present Park .

 

The executive Councillors agreed , at this meeting, not to proceed with the proposal , and urged officers to come back with a new plan that will be acceptable to the ward councillors, local residents and the four parks association.