LETRA at Andy's Surgery

LETRA met with our MP, Andy Slaughter, this Monday, at one his regular surgeries. He was just back from the Labour Party Conference, but was keen to have an update on issues concerning the Lytton Estate.

 First off, I told him about LETRA's new initiative, to apply for a grant from 'Awards for All', in conjunction with the 'Active Planet' team. If successful, this will result in a number of new youth activities, such as futsal, handball and craft classes, being held on the Lytton Estate. Hopefully, these will start early next year, if we succeed in winning a grant. Andy was delighted to give his full support to our application.

 Secondly, I raised our concern that the youth club building, in Marcus Garvey Park, is to be sold off by H&F Council. He said he would look into the sell off and see if anything could be done to halt or at the very least, try to make sure it is done appropriately, especially regarding the key situation it occupies, with all the other youth facilities sited in the park.

 Lastly, I asked if he had any news on the future of Barons Court library. 
As far as he knew, it was still uncertain what H&F intended for the building, although he did not believe it would continue to be used as a library in the future, with the volunteer model, now seemingly  becoming unworkable, after the withdrawal of Avonmore Primary School's once promised involvement.  He said, that he would try to find out if there was any new information concerning the councils plans for the library.

 Andy thanked LETRA for attending his surgery and asked to be kept up to speed with issues on our estate.

• Andy's home page  
• Active Planet site