Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Cornwall Road London Mayor's Social Housing Scheme. Work Stopped For A Year
This brutally ugly, but socially critical, housing development by the London mayor was in essence built by February 2024 when work on the site stopped. It has lain neglected for a whole year now. I wrote to my London Assembly member Joanne McCartney last November to ask her to find out why it had not been finished and tenanted. Yesterday I received a response from her support officer as follows;
"I hope you are well today. Joanne has now heard back from the relevant team at the GLA regarding the Cornwall Road site.
Please see below:
“Apologies again for the delay coming back to you on this while we made some enquiries.
The team have now spoken to Haringey and they’ve advised that the site is being re-tendered following the previous contractor unfortunately going into liquidation, which has inevitably put things on hold in the short term. However, they hope to conclude the tender process this spring and work will aim to recommence on site later in spring this year.
If your constituent wants any further information, Haringey have provided the following email address Jack.Goulde@haringey.gov.uk.”
From this I gather that it is Haringey who are responsible for the mess and that if work ever restarts fifteen wasted months will have elapsed. I marvel at the Assembly Member thinking that fifteen months is a short term delay during a housing crisis. I further marvel that an Assembly Member see her job as being a messenger service between the officers and the public. Perhaps naively I once thought we elected representatives to get necessary things done and when they weren't, to call it out. If they were now replaced by AI would we notice? This I think is a disgrace.
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Admin for testingPermalink Reply by Hugh on -
It's New London Vernacular style, like so much else that's getting built these days.
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Permalink Reply by jp quethiock
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Just to update on this social housing failure to deliver. I spoke with one of the only two workmen on site a few days back who told me that the new year might be the completion date. That would mean over four years from the start of construction to tenanting. Wow!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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I marvel at the Assembly Member thinking that fifteen months is a short term delay during a housing crisis. I further marvel that an Assembly Member see her job as being a messenger service between the officers and the public.
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Er yes.
However, even if c. three years (?) late, these are elegant pillboxes.
The last Administration told us that housing was a high priority, but the facts on the ground don't always support this. Apart from public relations and year of culture, it's hard to identify what was their top priority in actual practice.
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Rather fitting to erect pillboxes on land previously cleared by Nazi V1 flying bombs.........
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