Comments on: Join the debate on a new Chatsworth market

By: Dawn Smith

Dawn Smith — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:31:32 +0000

I would love Chatsworth Road Market to be re-instated!! I remember it well when I was a child you could buy all you needed from nuts and bolts to school uniform and music… my family had their own fruit and veg stalls there… great for the community in more ways than one!!

By: Lovely Amy

Lovely Amy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:26:05 +0000

Hello.

i couldnt find the online survey – i assume for the resons you have mentioned Simon, but I live just off Millfields road and shop very regularly on Chatsworth… so would love there to be a street market!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:06:27 +0000

Apologies for the late reply to your post – we are indeed not yet as organised as we should be, and publicity for meetings is an area in which we’re trying to improve.

However, for the July 14th meeting at Chats Palace, we did use our mailing list to send out an email notification well in advance. If you didn’t receive that email perhaps you could resubmit your contact details to us as we may not have the correct email address for you.

Re. your previous submissions – they are still on the website, as are all submissions received so far. The website simply archives older blogs and comments. If you scroll right down to the very end of the visible entries you can see a small subtitle saying ‘older entries’. Just click on that.

Re. submission of online surveys – throughout May and early June we had a ‘Survey’ menu option in the top right hand corner of the main wesbite page, just by the option that says ‘About Us’. Despite our testing the function in various ways before we launched the survey it become apparent by the end that a few people could not ’see’ that menu option – it may have related to a problem with browser compatibility, we’re not sure.

You make a valid criticism of the survey leaflets – they did unfortunately lack clear instructions on how to return them. We tried to address that problem by arranging for 28 survey collection points to display posters in shop wondows, and we also put up 50 posters on residential streets explaining where the nearest survey collection points were located. Please accept our apologies on both fronts.

We are including the website comments in the survey report we’re writing up now, so your views will be represented, even if you did not submit a survey.

Thanks.

By: (Phil-) Teddie Sawyer

(Phil-) Teddie Sawyer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:59:12 +0000

I completed the survey form but it has recently appeared in my kitchen having been forgotten and not submitted. In several places you invite us to complete the survey online but I have seen no links or directions how to do this.

Second point:
I have submitted a lengthy and well considered contribution to the discussion elsewhere on this site. The item lasted about a week before it was removed without explanation.

Third point:
We receive no news or reminders about upcoming meetings. On July 13th I noticed an item in the Hackney Gazette about the July14th meeting. When I discussed this next day, with a person who I know to have a lively interest in Chats Rd., he was horrified to find that it was too late for him to change plans and attend the meeting.
Other online communities have no difficulty in keeping in touch with their contributors/members. Do you have difficulty seeing the need for this?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:54:15 +0000

Great idea. Would love to have a market round the corner. Chatsworth Road is made for this kind of thing. The whole comunity will benefit from it. Would be great to have a stage for comedians, actors, poets, etc on it.

By: Elke

Elke — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:52:28 +0000

I think the Chatsworth Road market would be a great thing to have. It would put the area on the map, be a great place to hang out and it would be so great to shop at a local market just around the corner. I love it and I hope it will be made possible.

By: heidi

heidi — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:00:53 +0000

sounds like a good idea!…