Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
It's bye bye bridge banners as Harringay wins £1.8 million for Green Lanes in new fund bid
Hard on the heels of the successful bid for Round 1 of the Outer London Fund, it has just been announced that Harringay has won £1.77million from the Round 2 bid submitted last year.
The bid was submitted by the Green Lanes Strategy Group with the drive and vision coming in particular from Rob Chau of the Harringay Traders' Association.
The Harringay project was also singled out for particular mention this morning by Boris Johnson when he announced the bid.
The £1.77m will be augmented to almost £2.1m with matched funding coming from local traders. The project focuses on three key elements, most of which echo many sentiments expressed here on HoL
1. Create a new gateway for Harringay - a total revamp of the bridge. Gone will be the banners and the tat and in it's place a stylish entrance to our hood. LED panels and a showcase for local artists will be part of the approach.
2. Improve the public realm at street level - this will focus on a 'mini town square' approach - improving all the junctions that lead on to Green Lanes with better trees, building up the side road headers to pavement level and adding benches. Power points will also be added to allow the development of a street market culture.
3. Improving shop fronts - a limited number of shop fronts will be replaced with quality wooden ones, echoing a more traditional feel. Initial funding will limit the number to 35, but it is hoped that these will pioneer improvements elsewhere. Individual traders will add 20% of the cost themselves
More details on the bid soon. In the meantime some pictures for you to conjour up your imaginations:
Rob summarised his exhilaration with a measured statement of purpose, "The festival has shown just how vibrant our high street can be. We want to help guarantee our competitiveness against other high streets. We just haven't had the funds to do it till now. This is the biggest amount of funding we've seen for thirty years"
Once the dust has settled, a series of consultation events will be held to provide local people with an opportunity for direct input into exactly how the funds will be spent.
You can catch a little on the Mayor's announcement on the BBC news this evening. They're supposed to be coming to Harringay for a few shots and quick interviews.
More soon, I'm sure. In the meantime, well done to Rob and the bid team! Great news for the hood.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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Actually John there's a line of taps, each with a relay controlling the drip rate. The artist decides the frequency and duration using software. For this London installation, he chose to scrape the BBC News website for frequent words and his software opened the taps on cue. Easy!
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Permalink Reply by Gill on
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How exciting. If there is any money left over can we do the same for the parade of shops in Wightman Road - the Harringay Station End?
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Permalink Reply by Abimbola Akanwo-Hood on
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Great news. Congratulations to all involved in the bid.
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Superb news, a bit of cafe culture would not go amiss.
The Garden Ladder
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Permalink Reply by Rory Bergin on
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Excellent news, bringing some order to the chaos that is Green Lanes will be great. Like others I wonder how any reduction in traffic can possibly be achieved, the street needs to turn into a Place and less of a through route for passing traffic. We need to consider how cyclists can use the street and how pedestrians can cross at more regular intervals to make crossing easier and safer. Perhaps a re-think on the traffic circulation in the ladder is needed generally. Perhaps LED street lighting as well to save energy, and maybe energy efficiency improvements to the shops that are being renovated, it will be cheaper to do that at the same time as making other changes.
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I guess that, because parking restrictions are so savage along the Lanes, most of the traffic doesn't benefit our area - they don't add materially to the trader's footfall, I guess.
So, why not re-route those vehicles that simply pass through, like in Oxford Street? Buses/taxis/access only, with some means of park and ride.
It would mean quite a detour for many drivers, (via St Anns Road?) but they haven't earned the right to be accommodated in exchange for the damage they do, have they?
Wonder who is doing the 'blue sky' thinking about our area - have maybe underground car parks or a tunnel beneath the main road been considered?
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Permalink Reply by William Booth on
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Northbound on Wightman, southbound on Green Lanes, or vice versa? Has that ever been considered?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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The council would LOVE to do that. Of course they've considered it, they want it. I can't see how anyone who actually lived here would. Wightman rd a two lane, one way urban highway. Not even Green Lanes is two lanes at the moment.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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"The council would LOVE to do that. Of course they've considered it, they want it."
Evidence please, John.
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Alternatively, bus and cycle only between Turnpike Lane and Endymion Road, and have Wood Green car traffic go up and down Wightman and Tottenham traffic go up Seven Sisters and the High Road. Could be soft-enforced by breaking the flow of traffic east-west at Turnpike Lane and Wood Green.
Just thinking aloud...
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