Wards Corner Community Resource Hub

Bring the Wards building back into use as a community and business resource hub on Tottenham High Street to support local market traders, small businesses and the community during COVID-19 and beyond

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https://wardscorner.org/

The West Green Road/Seven Sisters Development Trust was established in 2008 as part of the ongoing campaign to save Wards Corner in Tottenham from demolition and redevelopment by Grainger. Wards Corner includes the historic locally-listed Wards building, Seven Sisters Indoor Market (Latin Village) and a number of independent small businesses serving local low-income and ethnically diverse communities. Seven Sisters Market is a key cultural and community hub for Latin Americans in London, recognised by the United Nations and listed as an Asset of Community Value by Haringey Council.

The Trust (a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee) was established by a group of Latin American traders and community leaders to serve as a vehicle for the community and business-led development of the Wards Corner building and the wider West Green Road/Seven Sisters town centre. The Trust has secured planning permission for an alternative community plan to restore the locally-listed buildings, provide new and improved trading and community space and realise traders’ long-held ambitions to self-manage the market (see wardscornerplan.org). Development will be phased to allow trading to continue and will be delivered through a community-build approach. Once restored, income from trading and community space will generate a surplus for reinvestment in local community and enterprise activities.

In parallel, the Trust is also pursuing other projects and initiatives towards its goals. In 2020, in response to the closure of Seven Sisters Market following an electrical outage, the Trust developed proposals for a temporary market to enable traders to continue to trade safely through the pandemic until the building could reopen. The Trust is also progressing proposals for a temporary Community Resource Hub to be housed on the ground floor of the Wards building, providing access to community and business support services and cultural activities for Latin American and other traders, customers and community members until the market can reopen. Both the temporary market and the community hub respond to urgent needs in the community, especially in the context of COVID-19, while also providing an opportunity for the Trust to test and further develop its longer-term proposals for the site and the wider town centre.

Project Owner: West Green Road / Seven Sisters Development Trust The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.

Contractor : Unit 38 Ltd The team responsible for building or installing the project.