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More luxury flats on Holloway prison site?
A letter by Islington resident, Chris Hignett, urging local people to contribute their views about the future of the Holloway prison site by filling in our...
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Holloway prison: call for local residents' views
A letter by our Deputy Director, Will McMahon, in this week's Islington Gazette (page 11) encourages residents to...
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Holloway prison site to go on sale this autumn
The Ministry of Justice is planning to put the former Holloway prison site up for sale this autumn. The news came in a letter from the Justice Secretary, David Lidington, to our Director, Richard Garside.
In the letter, Mr Lidington wrote that 'we will be seeking expressions of...
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Justice Secretary urged to rethink Holloway prison future
We have written to the recently appointed Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, David Lidington, urging him to listen to the people of Islington and consider their views and needs in any future decisions about the former Holloway prison site.
The letter is signed by the Centre for Crime...
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Community Plan for Holloway on London Live
TV News channel, London Live, recently covered our Community Plan for Holloway initiative, with interviews from Will McMahon, Chris Hignett and Becka Hudson.
The closure of Holloway prison offers a once in a generation opportunity to create much needed facilities, homes and services for...
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Centre quoted in Evening Standard on Holloway plans
In advance of a community gathering outside the former Holloway prison this Saturday, 18 February, to call for the Visitors' Centre to be opened for community use, the Centre's Deputy...
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Give Holloway prison visitors' centre to local community
We are supporting local organisations in their call for the Ministry of Justice to open the visitors' centre at the former Holloway prison site in Islington.
Holloway prison closed in 2016. It is likely to be several years before any redevelopment of the site is completed. Just...
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Call for more homes, not prisons
A couple of weeks ago we reported on a visit to the now closed Holloway prison by our Deputy Director, Will McMahon, and London Assembly Member Sian Berry.
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Holloway: 5,000 or 500 homes?
In late August news sources reported that commercial property consultants Bilfinger GVA have been instructed to advise on the sale of the Holloway...
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Reclaim Holloway campaign launch new website
Women in Prison, in collaboration with the Reclaim Justice Network, have set up a website for their campaign demanding that council housing be built on the site of soon-to-be sold Holloway prison. The prison is due to be closed...