Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
It's bye bye bridge banners as Harringay wins £1.8 million for Green Lanes in new fund bid
Hard on the heels of the successful bid for Round 1 of the Outer London Fund, it has just been announced that Harringay has won £1.77million from the Round 2 bid submitted last year.
The bid was submitted by the Green Lanes Strategy Group with the drive and vision coming in particular from Rob Chau of the Harringay Traders' Association.
The Harringay project was also singled out for particular mention this morning by Boris Johnson when he announced the bid.
The £1.77m will be augmented to almost £2.1m with matched funding coming from local traders. The project focuses on three key elements, most of which echo many sentiments expressed here on HoL
1. Create a new gateway for Harringay - a total revamp of the bridge. Gone will be the banners and the tat and in it's place a stylish entrance to our hood. LED panels and a showcase for local artists will be part of the approach.
2. Improve the public realm at street level - this will focus on a 'mini town square' approach - improving all the junctions that lead on to Green Lanes with better trees, building up the side road headers to pavement level and adding benches. Power points will also be added to allow the development of a street market culture.
3. Improving shop fronts - a limited number of shop fronts will be replaced with quality wooden ones, echoing a more traditional feel. Initial funding will limit the number to 35, but it is hoped that these will pioneer improvements elsewhere. Individual traders will add 20% of the cost themselves
More details on the bid soon. In the meantime some pictures for you to conjour up your imaginations:
Rob summarised his exhilaration with a measured statement of purpose, "The festival has shown just how vibrant our high street can be. We want to help guarantee our competitiveness against other high streets. We just haven't had the funds to do it till now. This is the biggest amount of funding we've seen for thirty years"
Once the dust has settled, a series of consultation events will be held to provide local people with an opportunity for direct input into exactly how the funds will be spent.
You can catch a little on the Mayor's announcement on the BBC news this evening. They're supposed to be coming to Harringay for a few shots and quick interviews.
More soon, I'm sure. In the meantime, well done to Rob and the bid team! Great news for the hood.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Do you think Cameron could build us a tunnel?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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"side road headers" are the heads or ends of the side roads where they join the main road. Building them up means making them the same level as the pavements.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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Short for 'neighbourhoods'.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Neil, the 'hoods' are the crooks who will cream off the first 25% of the £2.1m.
The 'side road headers' are, of course, all on the upper western end of the rung roads; the lower ends are the rump or tailends.
Otherwise, excellent news. But what will we have left to complain about?
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Wow, this seems really exciting, its about time we received some good news, I love my Green lanes it will be nice to have it revamped, so well done for all your hard work.
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Permalink Reply by William Booth on
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Like they've done at the St Ann's Road/Hermitage Road roundabout, I assume?
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Does it include free Wifi?
Boris did promise that all over London (at "every lamp post and every bus stop") in May 2010.
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This is great news. Well done to everyone.
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Sounds almost too good to be true! Well done to Rob and the others.
Not sure what 'better trees' are.... makes me feel sorry for existing trees that are being criticised for not being up to the mark-when it's probably not their fault...!!
There will be a great need to educate and alter people's behaviour and attitude towards their neighbourhood - the littering, dog-poo people etc. I know that can't be achieved overnight. If that continues then the revamp will soon look jaded but I am trying to be positive and think that people will feel much prouder of the place and the attention it has received.
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Really like point 3. That will make a big difference in my opinion as Green Lanes is pretty tatty at the moment. Like the fact the bridge is being done up too, but LED screens etc seem potentially VERY tacky and not a great use of money. Why not just have a permanent, classy stone/concrete panel which says 'Welcome to Harringay' or something?
Two big reservations though
1) As someone else has pointed out, the biggest single problem on Green Lanes is traffic. There's probably 50% too many motor vehicles to sensible exist on that size road. Is this addressing that problem at all? Far from it, and it looks like it might make matters worse by encouraging extra street traders without transport provision.
2) The street market idea? Are the pavements going to be widened, or the roads narrowed? If not, where on earth are they going to put them, it's a complete bunfight out there already!
Great news overall, but this needs some serious thought on street capacity and transport flow in my view.
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Ah, I see from the pictures (wasn't immediately obvious) that they are envisaging the extra pavement space for traders down the side roads.
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