Health on the High Street: London's "unhealthiest" shopping streets

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on April 9, 2015 at 8:33

Throw another brick at Haringey, eh (not really you, CC, but the ES).

Apart from Stroud Green Road north side (and Lidl on Seven Sisters Road isn't fast food), all the Finsbury Park fast food shops/'unhealthies' are in Islington or Hackney.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on April 9, 2015 at 9:27

What about Green Lanes then?

In the Royal Society of Public Health report, the list [link] of the

"144 high streets across London, identified using the district centres in the Mayor’s London Plan",

ranks Haringey locations (higher numbers are healthier):

5. West Green Road/Seven Sisters   (Haringey)

8. Finsbury Park   (Islington/Hackney/Haringey)

74.  Bruce Grove/Tottenham High Road   (Haringey)

79. Green Lanes   (Haringey)

89. Crouch End   (Haringey)

138. Muswell Hill   (Haringey)

Green Lanes is healthier than average, then

(ok, healthier than median for the proper statisticians out there). 

Here is a link to the full Royal Society of Public Health report. It treats London separately from the rest of the UK.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on April 9, 2015 at 9:40

Thanks for the link, Gordon.

I assume they're using "Green Lanes" following the Council usage of he word and they mean Harringay. A ranking of 79 puts us about half way up the ranking and interestingly at about the same level as Crouch End. Shock and horror for Crouch End to see Muswell Hill ranked so much more highly.

Clive your original post was not complete. I'd have thought it fair to point out that most of Finsbury Park town is not in Haringey. If you factor in that Haringey also has of of the ten healthiest high streets, it's not doing badly. 

I wonder if "Bruce Grove/Tottenham High Road" at #74 includes all Tottenham High Road. It's an odd way to name it if indeed they mean the whole of Tottenham High Road. If it they don't where then is the rest of the high road?

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on April 9, 2015 at 10:09

Well the Mayor's London Plan is here, and the listing is in Annexes (Annex no 2, starts (PDF) page 26), but gives no further explanation in terms of a detailed map or extended text.  

So, where is the dividing line on the High Road between 'Bruce Grove/Tottenham High Road' and 'West Green Road/Seven Sisters'?  At the Philip Lane/Monument Way junction perhaps - that's where the ward boundaries are, I think (the Haringey Online Map Service is sub-optimal).

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on April 9, 2015 at 12:59

Yet another plea to shore up London's little fiefdoms.

Living healthily and good health has absolutely nothing to do with Borough boundaries. Harringay's residents don't restrict their leisuretime or buy their food in the Borough in which they live.  Therefore, there should be Londonwide standards and a licensing authority.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on April 10, 2015 at 9:55

Londonwide?  City Hall does address healthy living - see here:  https://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/health/ 

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