Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Is Tottenham Being Sold in Cannes tomorrow?

In another post Alan Stanton has drawn attention to a event being held in Cannes tomorrow. The Haringey Chief Exec is hosting the "Tottenham Lunch" aboard the Clara One yacht. In describing the event to me, a little bird said "Tottenham's being bloody sold on a yacht in Cannes tomorrow".

Is that fair comment? Does anyone know any more?

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Permalink Reply by Takaokagiejin on March 11, 2014 at 23:07

Here she is: http://www.ybi1.com/clara_one_super_spacious_32m_motor_yacht_based_...

Not much space for the threatened 150 "networkers" but I guess our Chief Executive will enjoy offering up Tottenham to the circling tax exiles.

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Permalink Reply by pamish on March 11, 2014 at 23:32

Burn it.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on March 12, 2014 at 0:15

Burning parts of Tottenham High Road was only the first stage. As we know, it was destructive, angry, frightening, criminal, disorganised, uncontrolled. It hurt homes and businesses. Speaking to cameras soon afterwards, David Lammy feared it had ripped the heart out of Tottenham. Fortunately David was wrong. The heart still beats strongly.

The next stage, by planners, politicians, developers will have another more professional and surgical try at ripping out the heart. However the operation will be done in an entirely different way. It will be calm; courteous; smiling; carefully planned, organised, controlled and orchestrated. And entirely and carefully legal. It will hurt many more homes and businesses.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Burnham on March 12, 2014 at 2:57

Haringey’s council housing estates are up for sale at Cannes, in the South of France, today.

Haringey Council recently decided to consult council tenants, about the future of all of its large estates in Tottenham. Activists say that the plans will mean the demolition of thousands of homes, to make way for the lucrative private deals being made in France this week.

20,000 people are attending the MIPIM international real estate marketplace at Cannes this week, including 4,300 investors and 3,000 Chief Executives and Chairmen, with 2,000 exhibiting companies from 80 countries. Cllr Alan Strickland, Haringey’s Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration, was a panel speaker on ‘Transforming Tottenham’ at MIPIM yesterday: http://londonatmipim.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/07.03.14-MI...

This afternoon, Haringey’s Chief Executive Nick Walkley will attend a working lunch on the Arup placemaking consultancy’s ‘Clara One’ yacht at Cannes. The yacht is located at the Albert Edouard Jetty, one of the most sought-after spots at the Palais des Festivals. The yacht is a “focal point for networking and meeting new people”. But not for you and me: this will be a private lunch, and a closed event. http://www.arup.com/News/Events_and_exhibitions/MIPIM_2014.aspx

Haringey Council tenant Paul Burnham says, “It is so cynical to sell off our estates at Cannes like this. And it is both sad and wrong at home, to read Haringey documents constantly implying that council housing causes unemployment or lower life expectancy. Instead,tenants value our secure council tenancies, and we enjoy the lowest rents in the housing market. We should stop these demolitions, and we should build more and better council housing. We don't have any Tory Councillors in Haringey, so why is the Labour Council doing the Tories' dirty work?"

For those developers unable to join the jet set this week, there will be still more chances to bid for Haringey’s housing assets, at Sitematch London on 2nd April. Michael Kelleher, Haringey’s Head of Housing Investment and Sites, will take part in the event, which will work in a "speed dating" format, featuring a desk for each participating local authority or public sector landowner, staffed by a senior member of the regeneration, development or planning team, alongside a Sitematch London advisor.
http://www.sitematchlondon.com/attendees.html

"Take a chunk of Tottenham. Take two or three. We've plenty to dispose of, for next to nothing", comments Tottenham Labour Councillor Alan Stanton.

The publicity for the Sitematch event, designed by the artist Gene Cornelius, and inspired by the pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, depicts developers and officers actually making the match. She reflects, “Council desperately seeking partner to develop sites. Mixed use considered”, while he ponders, “How can I tell, if this is the one for me?...”

See one of the images here: http://www.3foxfiles.co.uk/downloads/sitematch/estates_gazette_site...

Cllr Stanton says, “We do need new homes for Tottenham residents. But not red-rosetted Tory displacement and social cleansing in the interest of profit, for developers, Arup, and other consultants”.

Paul Burnham says, “Haringey have decided to spend £1,500,000 from our rent accounts, over the next three years, to “sell” us the deals being made at Cannes today. That is unfair and wrong - and it is not what we pay our rent for”.
http://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=36516
[Scroll to ‘Financial Planning - Appendicies1 to 6, Item 608’ and see p7].

“Haringey’s housing plans aim to price local people out of our own area”, he continued. “Instead of demolition and private redevelopment, we need new council housing for local people - including the 9,838 households on Haringey’s waiting list”.

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