Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Council approves demolition of London's only Latin village
The council have said they are proceeding with the demolition of London's only Latin village, in Seven Sisters, despite objections from local businesses and even the United Nations, which warned it would damage cultural life.
More information here: https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/17391041.haringey-latin-m...
Save the Latin village page - https://www.facebook.com/SaveLatinVillage/ and http://www.latinvillageuk.org
Tags for Forum Posts: seven sisters market, ward's corner
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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Have you sought, at all, to look into why the cocaine trade is teh main stay and not other forms of agriculture, industry and business?
There is a historicalcontext to this in the same way that the NOrth of England is in dire straights when compared to the South West.
Exactly what are you proposing as a solution? That they demolish the cocaine plantations, the dealers and and the people, including families, that rely on the money that that trade brings in and replace them with new incomers to take their place?
Just how do you plan to do that when large countries like the UK and France can 't even as individual countries with sovereignty, control big corporate undertakings like Google, Amazon, Facebook.....
Please stop making these facile utterings....
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I think is sad that people are complaining. If the council does nothing they complain as they have about seven sisters for years now. Yet the council want to improve and people complain again. As far as cultural heritage, this is Haringey and as second generation immigrant I believe we should be uniting together as one community not in separate smaller ones where nationalities continue to segregate. One Haringey, one people that’s what it’s about
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It was PRECISELY a VERY VERY BROAD coalition of the many diverse communities and stakeholders that live and work and shop around Seven Sisters and Tottenham that fought this mediocre so called regeneration.
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Permalink Reply by hhnrau on
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i think most of the people celebrating this decision have no idea of the exciting visionary alternative plans to restore the building that had been proposed by the community - in line with preserving and improving the remaining architectural heritage of the High Street. Or the shoddy and patronising way the developer has pushed this through. The original development brief for the site, led by council with community involvement, suggested creating an iconic gateway to the borough, and a design competition to create a building worthy of the ambition. Instead we have bog standard identikit design, eliminating the area's character.
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I think it will be a shame if what remains of the Wards store is demolished. I love Victorian/Edwardian buildings and truly hate the modern glass/brick/cladding combo towers erected in the hope the area will improve.... As for the Latin quarter it looks like a shamolic mess each time I have walked past...So I'm happy to hear it's going.
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I wish the council would spend regeneration budget on cleaning and fixing our semi-derelict public spaces rather than spending it destroying functioning businesses
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Is it Haringey who lead on this? As far as I’m aware they don’t own the Wards Corner site, the developer owns the majority of it and the CPO relates to some smaller sites adjoining it.
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I agree that the current administration have inherited a right royal mess. I suppose the question is what they can realistically be expected to do as the contracts have already been signed and they don’t own most of the site.
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Haringey Council selected Grainger as their developement partner and so they have obligations under the deal(s) they signed.
Important parts of the deal are confidential for 'commercial reasons' and so there is a lack of transparency. We have to trust the people who signed up to this. I DO NOT!
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I think most who were involved have moved on to pastures new JJ B
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Yes but the new 'regime' has the opportunity to stop the disater before it too late.
We could still get an exciting compromise scheme with new build on Seven Sisters and Suffield rds with integration of the WC and locally listed buidings into homes and shopping including a cleaned up market. The best for all.
But as you say people are moving on. I just hope to have left before they demolish WC.
When you see how two councillors who didn't agree with the enw leader were evicted from the cabinet you understand that there are different faces but much the same type of culture operating!
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This is the statement Cllr Edjiofor has made about the issue. I’m not saying which side is right but this is what the council’s position is
Wards Corner CPO
As some of you will already be aware, the Secretary of State has confirmed the Wards Corner Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) decision.
Discussions about Wards Corner have been going on for more than a decade – the conditional development agreement was signed back in 2007. The decision to submit the Compulsory Purchase Order for consideration is a legacy decision, made in 2016 by the previous administration. Grainger own more than half of the Wards Corner site, and the council has a legal agreement in place to progress with the compulsory purchase of four outstanding units.
Even so, no overt actions will be taken within the next 60 days. Cllr Charles Adje and I have met with traders and they have made representations to Haringey’s Cabinet. We will continue to work closely with the Future of Seven Sisters steering group, which includes traders, to make sure their aspirations for the temporary and new market are met.
I want to be really clear about what is proposed at Wards Corner – this is not a plan to destroy the market in Seven Sisters. It is a plan to temporarily move the market to a site over the road, in order to build a new sustainable long-term market, deliver new homes and business space. When the market moves back to the site, returning traders have a clear list of commitments, including reduced rent and the guarantee of equivalent space made by Grainger. The Council remains committed to the development and delivery of a sustainable Latin Village market, and we continue to seek to encourage the traders to engage in the design on the future market. We remain aware and conscious about issues surrounding the management and facilitation of the market, and as a council we are considering our options. We will continue to work positively with the traders to on this issue.
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