Mildmay community plan

Affordable housing: Athenaeum Court

This project will build extra social housing at Athenaeum Court in Mildmay. It will also install cycle storage and will open up green spaces for residents in the area.

Community facilities: Mildmay Community Centre pram parking

This project will provide enclosed pram parking outside the Mildmay Community Centre building. It will help users of the community centre to store prams safely and securely, rather than taking up space inside the centre, where they can cause fire safety problems.

Play space: St Paul's Shrubbery Play Area improvements

After finishing improvements to St Paul's Shrubbery open space, this project will focus on improving play opportunities for older children.

School facilities: Reducing car idling

This project will focus mainly on car-idling in Mildmay around schools. It will involve working with the council and local schools to encourage anti-idling measures and encouraging residents to be aware of the effects of pollution.

Open space: New River Walk/Petherton Road improvements

This scheme will improve the public realm at the New River Walk and Petherton Road area of Mildmay. It would involve the refurbishment of the path and benches in the area and improved planting, as well as measures to reduce and discourage dog fouling. This will improve public places and will make a clear link between the rest of the New River Walk and the area by Canonbury Station.

Affordable housing: Hathersage Court and Besant Court Estates

As part of the new affordable housing development on this estate, which will include 45 new homes, we will also improve public realm and facilities for people who live there now. This includes a new playground and block improvements.

Affordable housing: Kerridge Court and Spring Gardens Estates

Islington is working towards tackling the nationwide housing crisis, including building new council homes in Mildmay. Housing projects are being planned and this has meant looking at building new and making improvements to the existing homes, potentially including the landscaping to Kerridge Court, Burder Close and 5-39 Boleyn Road. We will put the housing needs of local residents first as the building continues.

Community facilities: Community events on Newington Green

This scheme aims to encourage and help with funding for more events on Newington Green to compliment Newington Green Action Group’s Carols and Jazz on the Green. Mildmay Councillors have for a number of years supported the local Newington Green Alliance and Garden Classroom through the Local Initiatives Fund.

Playspace: Newington Green playground improvements

• Cost: £65,343 from local Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)

After a consultation with the local community, this scheme will refurbish and resurface the Newington Green playground to make it accessible and inviting to more children.

Playspace: St Jude's playground and open space improvements

• Cost: £4,000 from Planning (S106)

The first set of costs is for design and possibility of the project as well as communicating with you around the works. This project will improve the play area and open space at St Jude’s. The final project will re-landscape the area covered with dead plants, removing shrubs and placing more open, low planting behind the fence. There is also a possibility of a community gardening space or allotments.

Playspace: King Henry's Adventure Playground

• Cost: £109,624 from local CIL and £15,376 from Planning (S106)

This scheme will improve the facilities at the King Henry's Adventure Playground. Improvements will include:

• replacing the boiler, which has reached the end of its life
• installing new floodlights at the playground
• replacing the fence around the site.

The project will let children play freely outdoors through the winter, when it is dark after school, because of outdoor lighting. It will improve security too. It will improve cleanliness by making sure there is hot water for washing hands thanks to a new boiler. The replacement of the fencing will also improve the security of the site.

Estate improvements: Mildmay

• Local CIL (£161,750)

This project is to provide a range of improvements across Mildmay estates, including
Wells Court, Queen Margaret’s Grove, Seaforth Crescent, New River Court, 59 Poets
Road, John Kennedy Court, Blair Close, Sinclair Court, Mildmay Street, Tudor Court,
Lexfield House, Highbury Estate, and Mayville Estate. The improvements will vary in
scale and scope, and range from removing hostile bollards, to improving signage,
providing cycling and improving waste storage and recycling facilities, enhancing
green spaces, to public realm improvements.

Mildmay’s Liveable Neighbourhoods

Mildmay Ward Councillors have started consulting on the £1M Mildmay Liveable
Neighbourhood. A Liveable Neighbourhood provides quiet, pleasant streets with less
traffic where you can safely and comfortably walk, cycle, scoot, and use buggies and
wheelchairs. The area will be greener and healthier, with places to sit and rest, enjoy
your street and meet your neighbours.

Room to Heal Gardening Project

The Factory Children's Centre

• Local CIL (£15,000)
• S106 (£3,630)

This project delivered improvements to the outside spaces at the Children's Centre. The centre has many children who live in homes without gardens and this project gave them the opportunity to experience and appreciate nature through a planting scheme, a mural, a music wall and a mud kitchen. Project completed in 2019.

Newington Green Decking

This project replaced the decking materials around the park building in Newington Green Gardens which was at the end of its life. This scheme was also partially funded by the Local Initiatives Fund (LIF). It has had a positive impact on park users and on the financial viability of the park café. The project was completed in 2019.

Newington Green Drinking Fountain

• S106 (£5,335)

This project involved the installation and maintenance of a water bottle re-fill station in Newington Green. It encouraged users of the park to re-fill reusable water bottles, rather than buying water in single-use plastic bottles.

Newington Green Traders' Fund

This scheme established a traders fund to improve the shopping area and the look and feel of high street. This scheme was funded by the Local Initiatives Fund (LIF).

Haliday House Communal Garden Improvement 

• Local CIL (£1,775)

This scheme is to further improve the communal garden. The TRA are proposing that a water supply is made available to them with the installation of an external water tap, which will enable the TRA, & members of the future gardening club to care for plants and shrubs. They also seek funds to purchase an additional heavy-duty (cast iron) bench. 

Mayville Estate

This scheme improved the biodiversity on the Mayville Estate with the addition of planters and lighting around the Mildmay Community Centre. The red ball pitch on the Estate was in disrepair, so a new ball pitch has been created for children under 12 nearby. Funding was secured by Mildmay ward councillors through the Housing department's environmental improvements budget, and from Arsenal FC for the new ball pitch.

Mildmay Ward Estate Cycle Parking

• Local CIL (£3,575)
• S106 (£6,149)

This scheme provided secure cycle parking at several housing Estates in Mildmay. It included the installation of cycle hangers at Tudor Court, shelted court at Kerridge Court, as well as 8 secure cycle parking spaces at Haliday House. The project helped residents to store cycles safely, rather than taking up space inside properties or being left in communal areas of buildings, where they undermined fire safety requirements. The availability of secure cycle storage encouraged cycle use, with personal, environmental, health and economic benefits.

Mildmay Secure Cycle Parking

This project delivered secure cycle parking on Mildmay Grover South, Beresford Road, Mildmay Street, Mildmay Grove North, Poets Road, and Grosvenor Avenue. 

Replacement Trees on Mildmay Grove North

This project will plant replacement trees on Mildmay Grove North, in line with the Council’s tree strategy. 

Area on Newington Green Near Ferntower Road

• Local CIL (£45,000)

This scheme created a green corridor, improving the public realm, making the area more attractive, increasing residential amenity and reducing anti-social behaviour. The green enclave allows the residents to enjoy a minute of rest by the tranquil pathway.

St Paul's Shrubbery Improvements

• S106 (£85,000)

The scheme delivered improvements to the St Paul's Shrubbery open space including enhancing the play space, increasing accessibility, landscaping and additional seating. The project was supported by the Children's Ward Partnership.

Newington Green Road Stop-and-Shop Facility

This scheme explored the possibility of stop-and-shop parking on Newington Green Road outside the fruit and vegetable and organic shops.

Wallace Road/Grosvenor Avenue Improvement Works

• Local CIL (£20,795)
• S106 (£46,205)

This scheme improved the existing public realm at the junction of Grosvenor Avenue and Wallace Road. It created an attractive plaza space for the benefit of the local community, which encourages public use for meeting and relaxing outside of Canonbury Station. Project completed in 2019. The improvement works were celebrated with the local community during Chinese New Year.

Kerridge Court Estate Ball Pitch

• S106 (£5,000)

This scheme delivered a new multi-use games area at Kerridge Court Estate. The previous ball court at the centre of the Estate was dilapidated and its design was unsuitable.