Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
If Sainsbury's goes...?
Will they remove the petrol station too? There aren't very many others left now.
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Permalink Reply by ChrisTofer on
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What makes you think Sainsbury's is going? It looks like a pretty busy store to me...
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Haringey's long term Local Plan is advocating reducing the Arena Retail Park to shops facing out onto Green Lanes only and redeveloping the rest of the site for housing..... Sainsburys don't want to go....
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/31._sainsburys...
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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So, I think that McDonalds should definitely go and very soon as it not a shop, does not face outwards, is a drive through therefore adds to the traffic congestion and pollution and has yet another car park attached to it.
Such a good idea to put a drive through burger joint right on a busy main road like that, eh!
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But by then no one in Harringay will need a car. We'll all be taking self-driving Ubers that are powered by water. Or cycling.
If you look on a map, there appear to be no petrol stations between the railway and the A10 from west to east, and Sainsburys to Lordship Lane south to north.
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And pigs will be using drones to fly.....
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Permalink Reply by Liilly Grenouille on
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When did they decided that ? When were they planning to make it official ?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Like many things the Council do it has been made available, but not widely publicised. It has however been highlighted and discussed a number of times on HoL.
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I'm sure that, just as ancient public horse troughs, livery yards and smithies survived here and there on village greens or attached to ancient Staging Inns long after the phasing out of stagecoaches and other equine transport, Harringay should retain a petrol trough off Green Lanes and a car repair garage on Wightman to remind our descendants just how stupid their internal combustion forebears were for more than a century.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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The waste of land at the Arena shopping "park" is appalling - a bunch of warehouse-like boxes for stores, surrounded by a huge lake of parking space. Getting rid of all petrol/diesel stations will follow from the increasing use of electric cars. Thousands of people in London (and in many other places in the UK) are dying from air pollution from motor traffic. As others have pointed out here, in the near future the need for private motor car ownership will be eliminated for most people, as we will be able to call upon (probably) driverless taxis. Don't underestimate the speed with which this is coming. The improvements in an area such as ours, the reduction in traffic, pollution, and the extra space when all those parked cars are gone, would be immense. There will always be some - people with disabilities, for example - who will need a "dedicated" vehicle, but for most of us I'm sure the end of the private motor car, and the end of petrol/diesel power to run them, will be very liberating. Of course, there will still be lots of delivery vehicles, emergency vehicles, larger vans/lorries to transport goods, but if they are all electrically powered it would be a huge improvement. As for the huge shed that is Sainsburys at Williamson Road, the day of the "big box" store, and the "weekly shop" are gone. Not to mention the fact that Sainsburys, as a food retailer, long ago lost its reputation either for quality or fair prices. Good riddance!
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