Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Council funding enlarged Duckett's Common cafe
Haringey Council have announced that they are investing in a new and enlarged café on Duckett’s Common. This will provide both indoor and outdoor seating for the café and a publicly accessible toilet indoors.
Initial works will begin in March to create a new sewer connection, while the main build is scheduled from mid-April, with a planned opening in the summer.
There will inevitably be considerable disruption to the site, with the northern section of the Common effectively shut off for the first month.
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Permalink Reply by Lydia Walter on
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... and I remember the days of the old, orange, shuttered wooden “Coffee Stall” located on Duckett’s Common but accessed from Willoughby Road. My dear Dad would buy my dear Mum a thick, white, china cup of tea and 10 Weights from there when they were ‘courting’ and they couldn’t have been happier. (Sigh) special memories of simple days!
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Hackney on
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Is there a theme emerging here? Haringey has an "Improving Parks" page, but as far as I can tell it all relates to past projects, yet there are several initiatives taking place now.
This Duckett's Common cafe for example.
A petanque court in Priory Park , a discussion of which is happening here
A Skate Park in Finsbury Park for which apparently Haringey has taken on the open commitment of future maintenance.
The Richard Hope Playspace project, here in a HoL discussion
If these projects have had a fanfare I didn't hear it.
Perhaps the common theme is money earned in parks, which can only be spent in those parks, a constraint discussed further in the Richard Hope forum post.
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