Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey should start tackling overheating in heat waves now
Summers are getting hotter and longer, and having real health impacts with thousands of people estimated to have died in UK in 2026 alone. London suffers more than most because of the urban heat island effect.
Haringey Council should start now to develop and install measures to protect its own council residents before next summer - and help others to treat their own homes. Many measures like solar awnings and screens are fairly cheap. Please sign Haringey Friends of the Earth petition here https://admin.actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-haringey-protect-cou...
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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Haringey Council should start now to develop and install measures to protect its own council residents …
Quentin, agree with your points.
However, given what appears to be muncipal misleading, dissembling or worse, in order to protect council tenants and leaseholders, the most urgent matter is surely to implement the overdue fire-safety measures.
The level of council delinquency is shocking. It's unlikely to happen, but in my view, the "Service" is overdue for an Augean Stables cleaning.
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Permalink Reply by Carrie
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the Council should also stop people from paving over their front and rear gardens, which increases the urban heat island effect (as well as having a negative impact on biodiversity, and making flooding more likely)
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Admin for testingPermalink Reply by Hugh -
If the area is above 5m² planning permission for the use of a non-permeable is already required. Below that size, I don't think there is any planning law the council can use. Councils cannot enforce a provision with no basis in statutory planning law
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In that case they should raise public awareness, I think most people are totally unaware of the negative impact they are having by paving over gardens, on so many levels!
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Admin for testingPermalink Reply by Hugh -
I agree entirely. It's an issue I've been raising here for over 20 years. You wonder if a little municipal nudge might be in order. premium/discount for the absence / presence of a concreted from garden? Do you have any ideas about what might be done other than awareness?
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HUGH, our council has no money to enforce vast swathes of statutes, not least in planning law.
Under the previous Administration, they did manage to find £65,000,000 for their refurbished civic centre. And shortly before the election, a further £520,000 to furnish it.
I was once at a Briefing by the lead planning enforcement officer who informed the few Members who attended, that his planning enforcement team was down to 6. That may not have increased since.
That was six, for the entire Borough of 19 Wards.
Under the previous Admin, there was normally money available for staff projects and interests but for resident interest, not so much. I don't expect but still hope the Greens will reverse such priorities.
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