Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Business growth in Haringey - BBC London news item
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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Just watched this on iPlayer....The piece is 7 mins in.... it's good to hear that employment is flourishing ("the fastest jobs growth in London") in the borough...less good to hear that this new success is likely to put upward pressure on the cost of housing
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Thanks for the correct timings Antoinette. Yes, one of the downsides is the pressure on residential renting and buying. Claire Kober was interviewed about the provision of affordable housing in the borough but unless the amount of new build is massive, affordability will push out to Enfield and beyond the M25. Proposals to allow the right to buy of housing association properties is going to dry up the supply of affordable rental property even faster.
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The right to buy concept is so wrong in my opinion but perhaps I'm not sufficiently well informed to make a judgement.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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I agree, social housing has its role in society, and should benefit many generations to come.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I'm having trouble locating this. Have you by any chance got a link, please ?
I assume that everyone can agree that if the 'headline' given by Michael shows the BBC are reporting an accurate overall picture, this is good news.
Let's hope too that the new businesses are at least medium term and sustainable. Does anyone know which organisation(s?) did this research and if they are independent of Council or business interests?
One factor affecting these changes - which it's fair to say that even Haringey "regeneration" staff have accepted as a concern - is that there's pressure (and profit) in converting existing commercial premises into residential. So again, if business premises are actually growing or holding their own, that's also optimistic.
I found it interesting that a recent article by Cll Joe Goldberg referenced the late Jane Jacobs - the American/Canadian writer on cities. From her first book (1961) to her last (2004) she maintained the importance of socially and economically mixed cities as part of the virtuous circle which avoids displacing lower income residents to city peripheries and beyond.
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Annoyingly, the news item refers to "a report" without saying who produced it but there's a GLA chap being interviewed so I assume it's them. The report overs all of London so I doubt it was commissioned by LBH. The item starts at just after the 7 minute mark.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0717zgy/bbc-london-news-26022016
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It will be interesting to see Cllr Goldberg's strategy to sustain a more equitable Haringey, in response to Jane Jacobs work.
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How do you rate Jane Jacobs, Matthew? She's been an inspiration to me since Penguin first published a paperback of "Death and Life of Great American Cities".
She died a few days short of her ninetieth birthday. Two years earlier she published Dark Age Ahead. If you've read it you'll know it's both gloomy about the dangers we face, but that she also offers positive and practical suggestions. She's not always right, of course. A point she makes among the end notes in that book:"I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take anything for granted without examining it skeptically."
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There was real shortsightedness in changes to the planning system a few years ago which allow almost unhindered conversion of commercial promises to residential. Of course there's a desperate need for residential but if businesses want to start up in the zone 2 and 3 boroughs the lack of commercial property might scupper that.
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I still haven't yet seen the BBC item. But someone who viewed it said they thought it referred to aspirations for Haringey in twenty years time. I desperately hope that's inaccurate. The last thing people need is more vague promises - not 'jam' tomorow or next year - but sometime in the twenty thirties.
As for Cllr Joe Goldberg's article - well he lists several theorists. Two of whom I'd never heard of. But I'll be reading their books hoping for some illumination.
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Too late, the iplayer version only seems to last for 48 hours. The report was into existing economic growth and identified Wandsworth, Haringey and a west London borough I forget (Ealing?) as having the highest levels of growth in the zone 2/3 boroughs with Haringey being the highest, so not about aspirations.
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Thanks, Michael. I'll be looking further into this.
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