An item at tonight's Council Cabinet meeting has thrown into question the future survival of Haringey's two warehouse districts and the artistic communities who live in them.
Both the Harringay Warehouse District and the Fountayne Road community now face an uncertain future following the publication of a Haringey Council report, "Tackling Unauthorised Living in Industrial Areas". (Report attached)
The report, which was discussed at the full cabinet of the Council today, recommends a two-year project costing £600,000 which will seek to deal with "the growing problem of unauthorised residential and live work uses in and around (the) Industrial Sites" in Haringey. The recommended process is "to establish a special multi-disciplinary team to fully investigate and address the problem through a combination of regulation, improvement, enforcement and, where necessary, prosecution".
The alarm bells were ringing for me since earlier in the week I had discovered that these areas are earmarked as being amongst those that will "will accommodate the majority of development in the borough over the next 20 years".
In Facebook and Twitter conversations this afternoon, warehouse residents shared their fears that the vibrancy their communities bring to the borough will be overlooked and their communities sanitised and destroyed.
In response to my Twitter requests to Council Leader Claire Kober this evening to protect these communities, Cllr Kober sought to offer some reassurance:
@harringayonline some people in unacceptable conditions. My concern is for safe, decent properties. No intention to undermine communities
@harringayonline no intention to damage what's good. Priority is to go after rogue landlords just as we do elsewhere in borough
When I asked if she would ensure that warehouse residents will be involved, the Council Leader replied:
@harringayonline don't see any problem involving residents. Will ask officers to consider how best to achieve
I very much hope that the approach the Council takes in this project will support these communities rather than beginning the process of whittling them away.
Tags for Forum Posts: local plan, local plan 2014, site allocation plan, warehouse district
with respect, jaqueline, the omega works are an eye sore! i walk past there most days and its a tip, last week your tenants were pushing each other around in sainsburys trollys and filming themselves doing so ( hilarious!), infact you have quite a collection there of trolleys. never mind, perhaps the 'vibrant community ' are going to make a sculpture out of them for the community. im still stunned by the lack of regard you show for the wider community, in particlar those who live directly opposite
my error Jaqueline, i had mis read which parts of omega you own. the fact remains though that the behaviour of a few will reflect on all involved with omega and that as a whole it remains an eye sore, the responsibility for that cant fall on your other neighbours on hermitage. the disrespect you have shown for one of them, here on hol is distasteful.
Oh Dear !! Here we go again, threatening every one with legal action !!
Spreading malicious rumours ? I think not
Get real and face up to the fact that you are the one in the wrong here.
MAjor link are not nearly always responisble, The left hand sids have been responsible more often than major link ..
Jaqueline,
The tenant in question threatened me when i questioned him of the all night/morning rave - Plus he came back with "But we are artists???!!"
Basically YOU are in the wrong and it is sad indeed to think that this is everyone elses fault when it is yours. Not the councils,not mine, but yours..
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