Islington Women's Design Group will meet on Wednesday 2nd July, 2-4pm, at Tindlemanor in Featherstone Street. The group convenes every few months to discuss planning and design issues which are of particular relevance to women. Membership is open and includes women who work in the built environment professions(architects, planners, park wardens, regneration officers etc.) as well as Islington residents of all ages who are keen to share their local knowledge, meet other women, learn new skills and help improve the borough's physical infrastructure and influence planning policy for the future.

A new lapdancing club opened recently on Islington's City Road, a few hundred metres from Tindlemanor, a building where there a number of women's groups are based, including several dealing with issues of domestic violence and sexual assault. Speakers from Islington's Diversity and Equality Unit, the Licensing Department, and from campaign group Object will attend to discuss calls for lapdance clubs to be licensed as Sex Ecounter Establishments. Under present rules, they are classed the same as cafés, with the local community having no say in whether they want such clubs in their area.

We will also be discussing a new project - funded by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission - working with refugee women in Islington on a Making Safer Places programme, in conjunction with the Islington Women's Design Group.

If you are a woman living or working in Islington who is interested in the way our buildings, open spaces and transport facilities are planned and designed, do come along to the meeting on July 2nd. Entry is free to members of Women's Design Service and there will be an opportunity to sign up on the door. A small charge for will be a small fee for non-members.

For more information please contact Women's Design Service, telephone 020 7490 5210 or email hcarty@wds.org.uk

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