Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Ghost is toast .....
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Word is that the the BDC Centre (currently a Hawes & Curtis outlet store selling Ghost clothing etc) on Green Lanes is moving towards a possible sale of the site for development - most likely for housing.
A few people have started asking why this site couldn't it become a leisure centre for the centre of the bourough, with swimming pool etc. It looks ready made for this use, with just the small job of digging a hole for the pool 
Of course it's not going to happen with Fusion Ltd only having just taken over the other two leisure centres and at the begining of refurbishment works but, it's nice to dream!
Tags for Forum Posts: 590-598 Green Lanes, hawes & curtis
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Permalink Reply by Kate on
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The Ghost outlet is closed - just Hawes & Curtis left in there. Always thought it was a strange kind of site. A leisure centre would be awesome.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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The site has never made sense to me either. Wonder what the history of it is?
As to a leisure centre with swimming pool, it would be excellent but I don't think there's a requirement for councils to provide a certain ratio of provision for swimming etc, even though the government bangs on about health & fitness as a way of reducing obesity, heart problems and so on (and the NHS bill).
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Permalink Reply by ThaiDi on
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What about a leisure centre without a swimming pool? With space for gym, group exercise classes, basketball hoops in the parking?
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I dunno, there's courts just up the road on Ducketts Common, very good too. The private sector seems to cater for gyms around here. But we only have two pool centres in this borough, neither very good.
I don't know why a developer doesn't put a pool in the ground floor (or top floor) for daily use by public (sure at a higher rate than council pools but with the service that one wishes for!) and sell some classy apartments as part of the development. A smart cafe next to the pool, with all that healthy food of course.
But you know how it goes in this borough, all money and no imagination!
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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You could have the whole lot if you built up and down enough. Green lanes is always in the shade anyway ...
;-)
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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The site is already in the 'Site Allocations Plan' as a 'Housing Trajectory Site'. So whatever the owners want, the days of retail on the site is limited anyway.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Serves them right for felling those listed trees on a bank holiday weekend so no-one could stop them.
I is a long-memoried woman.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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me too... well kind of. were they ever prosecuted?
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