Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Considering moving to Harringay Ladder - Cold feet!!
Hi there - as above, I'm close to having an offer accepted on a house on the Harringay Ladder (towards the North, Green Lanes end), but getting cold feet! I've never lived in the area so only know it from having wandered around looking at houses. It all looked ok to me, but I'm reading a lot of criticism online so starting to have second thoughts. Main issues seems to be about crime, bad schools, rat infestations, lack of 'things to do', overpriced housing...
I thought I'd made my mind up, but now a bit concerned. I'd really appreciate some views from people who already live there...it can't be that bad surely?!
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Permalink Reply by MrsBaldwin on
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I could write a long list about what I like about living in Wood Green.
And you know what, I might actually write the list at some point (not this evening when I have some other work to do).
But I'll have to think about what to do with it to achieve maximum positive effect (which won't be posting it to this thread).
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Billy, if we didn't have Wightman Rd and Green Lanes there wouldn't be a ladder. [Oh don't listen to that old OAE fool, Billy - he thinks logic, carpentry and semantics have smth to do with life.}
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A new market sounds great - where will that be?
And I might just take you up on that offer of a pint...
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Permalink Reply by Laura on
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I'm too lazy to read this whole thread but I'll tell you two things IMHO. Effingham Road is perhaps the nicest road on the ladder. I have no idea why. It just is. In my opinion. (I live on the next one; which is also nice).
The teachers at North Harringay Primary School work really, really hard and it is a very exciting school for the children. There are SO MANY things going on, it would be hard to list them all.
Park Road sports centre is OK. There's an outdoor LIDO for the summer. I also use Clissold Leisure Centre a couple of miles from the ladder. It is one of my favourite places in London. It is just fantastic.
The ladder is BRILLIANT for public transport into London and trains out to very nice countryside in the suburbs and beyond if you go north. On Effingham Road you have the choice of many buses from Green Lanes. A fast tube line. FOUR train stations to choose from.
Must get back to work now. cheers.
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Hi Laura - thanks, that's very helpful. Do you happen to know whether Effingham is in the catchment area for NHPS? I would be towards the Green Lanes end if that makes a difference...
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Hi Alex
I'm sure it would be. Haringey Council publish a list of schools with a distance measure showing the maximum distance that pupils live from the school, and I'm 99% confident you'd be okay on Effingham.
Also just to echo what lots of people have already said. I've lived here over 10 years now and really like it. It certainly does have downsides, all the things that have been mentioned, but for me and my family, the upsides really outweigh them! Good luck with your decision!
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Ah, thanks Alison. Do you happen to have a link to that council list - I couldn't find it online...
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Hi Alex - you are also in right zone for St Mary's CE Infants (just about to merge with the primary school) - just achieved an outstanding in it's Ofsted report. BTW - I;ve moved to Harringay from Suffolk and can genuinely say that the community spirit of so much better here than in a so called nice rural area. Love it!!
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Permalink Reply by Carol Tennant on
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Catchment for schools varies from year to year, depending on how many people apply so it's difficult to say where you might need to live in the future to get a place at any given school. South Harringay is also highly regarded locally. My personal experience of sending my children to North Harringay was not good, but a couple of years have passed since my kids left, and everything can change in that space of time.
We've lived locally for 15 1/2 years now, though on the N15 side of Green Lanes/St Ann's Rd where, as many have said, there are savings to be had. There are things I don't like about it, but overall, it's been a good place for us and our kids (now 15 and 12) with lots of community feeling. When you do have kids, that's when you really start to embed yourself in an area and meet other parents. I rarely leave the house without seeing someone I know, if only by sight, and there're plenty of community groups to get involved in, if you're that way inclined.
I say go for it.
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Thanks Carol. Should I infer from your comments on catchment area that Effingham is likely to be on the boundaries - i.e. in the catchment area some years and not in the catchment area other years?
Yes, I'm definitely keen to be involved in the local community, as that's something I've missed in West london.
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