Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Council has decided trees do not grow
They have been digging and doing works around Turnpike Lane with extremely poor results.
I cannot understand why it took so long for few patches of pavement and few meters of tarmac.
Now two tree have been planted and surrounded by compacted resin pebbles without leaving space for growth and soil. The tree will still grow though, will just raise and crack the surface, which means it will just be re-done, at council tax payers expense. (see attached photo).
Two meaningless corn small corn-shape statues have been installed, after doing the pavement, so it had to be cut and a large unfinished area around them has been left which probably will be filled with concrete like the pavement in front of Langham Close (see attached photos).
The pavement in front of Langham Close was quite fine and well done, just dirty because of all the people urinating there and the dumping. It has been redone in a shitty way.
However, nothing has been done to solve the urinating and dumping.
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Permalink Reply by Esoteric London on
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I too can't understand why it has taken so long to complete Muriel.
Already the mini cabs are ignoring the double yellow lines and parking as they please. This is less of a problem for pedestrians as it is for the repeat offenders that park on the double yellow lines outside the cafe on the corner of Langham Road/Langham Parade. This selfishness makes it dangerous for pedestrians, particularly the elderly, to cross the road. When the warden appears they just move off for a while then come back again.
Outside the Turnpike Superstore cars continually park on the pavement now that there is no kerb. This results in a continuous breaking of the paving slabs. The Council replace them and a couple of weeks later the job needs doing again. Put a couple of bollards there or a couple of bike racks, that would stop them and would be no more of a hazard to the blind, or partially sighted, than the strange up-turned acorns you mention.
The fly tipping and urinating continue to plague that little stretch of road.
Also I still don't understand why they didn't put a diagonal crossing in on the junction there. At the time of the consultation I believe it was said that the junction was too large but it can't be as big as Oxford Circus can it?
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Permalink Reply by Jeremyb on
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There are 3 corn/acorn-shaped structures on Spouters Corner, Wood Green too, I think they're meant to be seats, but one is so close to the kerb no-one would ever sit there. I also notice that the pavement in the High Road between BHS and Sainsbury's still isn't level (it wasn't level after the previous makeover either) and will no doubt produce a large puddle when it rains..
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I quite like the resin bases around the trees, largely because you do not end up with a nasty piece of bear compact earth folks simply walk over, and that they allow water to percolate through them to actually get to the tree, which is a massive issue given how much concrete there is and how little water actually gets into the sub-street soil.
I am not so sure about the space around the bottom of the tree though, I will have to look to see what they did on Green Lanes in Harringay when they did the regeneration. Will the resin simply not just crumble where the tree grow and puts pressure on it as it widens out, thereby creating its own space to grow??? I wonder.
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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It crumbles up but looks crap over time. The accorn near the road is badly positioned as a seat, I can only imagine it's use is to alert passing drivers of the new design - a bit pointless still.
However all things being equal, I think it fair to say it's a pretty good job really. The tree's are already beginning to look great now summers is coming on and are leafing up and the vast majority of the work looks great to my eyes.
I've said it before but I swear the new high road is having a positive effect on the people. People genuinely seem to walk through Wood Green with better manners now .... Or perhaps I've read too much Macolm Gadwell ? Anyone else notice a difference ?
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It's taken far longer than it was supposed to...traffic is as bad as ever and no buses apart from the 141 is running down the high road so it's really frustrating. Get a move on!
Those silly acorns...whose idea was it to create these rubbish artsy nonsense. I saw the bus shelter outside spouters corner is now being done....finally!
How many men does it take to change the paving on a high road....
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Don't blame Haringey for any tree planting problems in the WG high road. They are all planted by TFL, who are in charge of the whole high rd re-furb., and the [two month?] delay is down to them...but be pleased we have all those extra trees. The resin gravel round them is really expensive, but I suppose, sadly, easier to maintain than planting flowers or shrubs in those enormous tree pits, and lets water through.
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