Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Satellite Dish Petition is Back! And it Needs Your Support.
if you live in Harringay and would like to try and get the area de-cluttered from all the satellite dishes and estate agents boards, please sign the petition. Also please ask your friends, share it on Facebook etc
This week we have approached the local councillors with the petition and they have promised to try and raise it at the council. Thankfully they were all very much in agreement. Obviously the more signatures we have the more they will listen.
A thought occurred to me the other day that you could have improved the entire look of green lanes without spending a penny by getting the dishes moved to the back of properties and have the boards taken down. Apparently Islington created a by-law to do just that.
Please note, we do not want the area to become as gentrified as Islington! We just want our area to look a bit nicer without having to spend millions of pounds!
Anyway, thank you for reading and hope you can sign our petition.
http://www.change.org/petitions/haringey-council-take-action-to-rem...
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Stella Creasy in Walthamstow was bragging (quite right too) about their achievements in de-cluttering high streets yesterday on Twitter. Estate agent signs though... I don't think Labour would go in for denying the masses their tele.
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Permalink Reply by Penguin on
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Sounds interesting. I might try dropping her a line and see if we can link people up.
Labour, Tories, Libs - they're all the same to me.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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Does anyone know what the stance is on advertising boards being attached to the front of houses (as in stuck to the front of the house permanently, not as a temporary free-standing signboard)? The HMO next door to us has one that is permanently there and I think it is a blight on the street. I didn't think such signs were allowed.
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It is illegal for them to be attached to the front of a house. Inform the council and inform that estate agent you have done so.
I did it on my street and they took them down.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Let by and sold by are only allowed to remain for 14 days after after purchase. The council are very helpful in informing you if you ask, crap though at enforcing. It surprises be that the organisersof the hHarringay Hurtle accepted Hane as there main sponsor. They are some of the worst culprits when leaving boards on houses and incredibly rude when you call to ask for their removal.
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That was Mark Thomas
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/comedy/whos-a-naughty-boy-mark-t...
He did a few different signs. Perhaps someone else caught his show at Leicester Square Theatre and can remember? My memory is crap.
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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A quick search in the previous HoL discussions on this has comments saying things like Paul Simon estate agents are the worst, another saying Winkworths, more images showing Capital Homes or B.S. Lettings, and plenty of other comments about many others, so i don't know how accurate Hane's are the worst can be, more likely they're all as bad as each other?
Hanes has given us funding for the lantern procession and the hurtle, i've approached lots of businesses and Hane's, Tao Sports, the Traders Association, Harringay Market, and HoL are the only ones that have ever come up with any money. The lantern processions and hurtle make a loss, if you'd like to volunteer your fundraising skills for the next ones Tunbridge Wells we would be very pleased to have your help.
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So Ant, if they are all as bad as each other and happily blighting the area and breaking the law at the same time, why ask them for sponsorship?
I remember counting over thirty Hane boards I called them up and only 5 properties were available when I reminded them of their legal responsibility and asked them to remove the boards they laughed and hanged up on me.
How much money have they put into the Hurtle and the Lantern parade?
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We couldn't have done them without the money. What about schools using estate agents boards to advertise school fairs, are you against that too? Isn't it better we get money from them, its not like not taking their money would make the boards disappear.
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I am completely against schools using estate agents boards. When I was child school fairs were advertised with signs in windows. The average person coming to the fair is immediate family of the student I really doubt the bards bring many others down. They are just ways in which estate agents can paint a touch of gloss over all the the shit they leave, trying to fool us into thinking they have some kind of social conscience rather than advertising their companies. The boards will never disappear if we pander to them whenever we need a few quid for local events. I don't want to hijack this post and Ant, I think you have done some great things for the community but I do feel that the community should not be setting up these events in partnership with such companies.
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