Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Homeless
Sure I read that Local Authorities was supposed to be sorting Homeless. during Corvid - 19
With Government Emergency Funding
Yet come across a appeal for Greenroom - Station Road N22
Who state they are looking after homeless ?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-green-rooms-feeding-its-vulnerable-...
Thought this building was Council Stock ?
But seems its owned now owned by a private company , missed that sale
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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It’s been The Green Rooms for several years
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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Aware its been Green Rooms for a while. Was it sold by the Council ?
Question is, is Haringey Paying them from Government Funds ?
If the case why need to crowd fund. There are not that many homeless in Haringey Who are willing to come indoors
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I think green rooms own the building
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Back to original question: is the Council - Haringey , Housing Homeless with Government Funding ?
Or is Green Rooms carrying out the responsibility via Crowd Funding ?
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I don’t know but I’m sure Green Rooms would be happy to let you know. Contact email below
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Permalink Reply by Annie McDonald on
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The green rooms are a hotel and restaurant. Along with many other hotels they are taking in the homeless. This is funded by the council / government funding. Meals are not provided, just shelter. Food charities all over London are delivering food to the homeless in different hotels. The Green Rooms have catering kitchens, so would like to provide 3 hot meals a day to their residents for this they need funding. Would be a good cause to donate to.
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Permalink Reply by Neil on
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I think Haringey Council still own it. The Green Rooms is their arty scheme to make use of it while they ponder its future. I don't think the Green Rooms make a profit and Haringey subsidise it.
The building is beautiful and massive with good architectural features. A trendy but little used bar (now closed) on the ground floor and a few bedrooms on the top floor are not enough to pay the running costs. The two basement floors are enormous and unused.
The tall building has a prime position close to the Tube station and is probably worth £30m and could get a commercial rent of £500,000 a year if leased as offices to the private sector. I think the building has been a drain on public money for 40 years but Haringey Council don't care and are not commercially minded.
They kept Hornsey Town Hall as a loss making, white elephant for 60 years after they moved their town hall to Wood Green Civic Centre in 1958. Can anyone find out the running costs and losses on this public asset in booming Wood Green? Can a councillor or MP provide the information? I think I'll write to them now.
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Booming Wood Green? Didn’t you notice the number of empty shop units before lockdown? As for the bar being little used.......
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This event pictured is a special occasion. It is probably the opening night. They don't have flowers like those anymore and I've never seen an all white, middle class group of customers like this one before. The space you see in the photo is about 1% of the beautiful grand building. The rest is mostly empty. I walk past each week and always see about a dozen people working on laptops and not spending much money.
Before Covid 19, unemployment was at a record low in Wood Green as it was in the rest of the country. You don't insult and judge a constituency's economy by looking at traditional shops in one street.
£3.5 billion is being invested now in the town centre to add 60,000 sq ft of new employment space, 4,000 jobs and 7,800 new homes.
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Permalink Reply by HoL Site Admin on
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Neil, your final sentence is rude, unnecessary and against our terms and conditions. Accordingly it has been deleted.
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