Help save Hornsey Town Hall - campaign for community ownership

This building was built with local people's money, for the use of the local people. Selling it off will consign it to private ownership for ever!! This is political vandalism!

A disgrace. This beautiful building should not be in private hands.

Please hurry up and get the town hall sorted. It's been going on for too long!

Don't take the historic heart out of Crouch End, rather retain and enrich it.

Our. Community should own our town hall not sell it off to build housing that most people can't afford!

I support 100% the motion to have the beautiful Town Hall in community hands

This building is integral to the Crouch End community and thus should be in community ownership. Not sold off to the highest bidder to make into more luxury flats that ordinary working people can't afford!

It is time this iconic building was brought back to life for the community .

This historic building held in affection by local residents should be used by them. Selling it off would destroy the sense of community afforded at the moment through events and celebrations.

This iconic building has been an underpinning of community for many generations and its recent reopening to the people of crouch end has reignited all generations to use this beautiful building and appreciate its role historically but also build hope that it will be a place for future generations to also enjoy. To sell this building off would be detrimental to crouch Enders, their families and future generations.

We just used the Town Hall this week for our Jewish New Year celebrations. It would be a travesty if it couldn't be continued to serve the local community.

The best long term solution is that keeps the Hornsey Town Hall in community hands. Selling it will be just filling partly the black hole which has been created by previous Labour management the one before the last Lib Dems. It will be another loss not a gain. GW Gepke Warham

Don't let Haringey Council destroy one of the borough's most positive communities. Instead, let the Town Hall thrive as inspiration and a basis for other good things in Haringey. We know Haringey Council do not see the west of the borough as their priority but please don't let the community here have a chance to make it work through their own efforts and talents – kids to pensioners.

For years, Haringey Labour Council has sneered at and otherwise brushed aside local groups' proposals for the future of the Town Hall (remember Crouch End for People?) and insisted it knows better. And it has commissioned god knows how many reports, position papers, etc etc about it. And yet, after all this time and paperwork, they say they'e still looking for a 'viable partner' with which to develop the hall, and in the meantime they insist they need to sell of the site to whoever's willing to pay for it, just as they've done all along. If this is the best they can do, it's ridiculous. What have they been doing all this time, apart from just saying no? There should absolutely not be any move to sell the site before an overall plan for community use of the Hall is worked out and approved.

Give us time to make the right decision

I made my stage debut there at the age of 3. My dad was an air raid warden in Hornsey, although we lived in Holloway. At a fund raising concert i sang Oh Johnny Oh and did a little dance....Bonnie Langford of my day. Went in to town hall during the Festival, amazed at how beautiful it i inside. The theatre is still usable, and I know there is an extreme shortage of Film Locations for interior and exteriors .I know this because I am a retired casting director and have heard this from friends in the business who know that there are many productions waiting to go when suitable studio space or locations can be found. Hope somebody from the Town Hall has been in touch with location supply companies.

it would be tragic to sell of Hornsey Town Hall. The best use would be for community purposes considering the number of children and young people in the local area.

Hornsey Town Hall is the centre of our community in Crouch End and is now being put to excellent use as work spaces, offices, and exhibition space for artists and creatives and for classes for the community. Everyone I know locally believes it should be kept and transferred into community ownership to maintain its community use and access. It is frankly shocking and shameful that Haringey Council, supposedly representing our community, is prepared to sell the site off to a private developer.

So many possible uses, so much potential that needs financial support via increasing Council Tax if necessary.

how could they even consider damaging this beautiful building?!