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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We're all in a confused state....
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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The UK may be a highly regulated country but the regulations are not enforced and are widely ignored. Watch the traffic for a few minutes and see how many drivers are using handheld mobile phones, how many speed through red traffic lights, how many drivers of company vehicles are smoking. Have you ever seen someone ticked off for dropping litter ? Watch the gates at Turnpike Lane tube and count the number of people who go through the gates two at a time while the station employees look the other way.
If a tourist in New York crosses the road against a " Don't Walk " sign he gets shouted at by other pedestrians: If he drinks from a naked can of beer in the Subway, someone will give him a brown bag to cover it. Be caught with a spliff in Singapore and make no plans for the next five years of your life.
If we haven't had any revolutions for a while, isn't it likely that it's because we have so little enforcement of the regulations and basically people are allowed to do what they like so they have nothing to rebel against ? And we, the ordinary citizens, are to blame because we let them get away with it ?
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I feel your pain John but we have a very much higher prison population per capita than most countries - let's not add to it as prison doesn't reduce crime. The reason people abuse their surroundings is complex and resists simple 'zero tolerance' otherwise we'd have sorted it by now.
Best to help reduce the damaging inequality we suffer from - that'll do it.
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I'm not suggesting we send people to prison for minor offences - I'm suggesting that we, as individuals, have a right and a duty to let offenders know that their behaviour is unacceptable.
But - I saw a driver go through a red light and nearly hit me on a pedestrian crossing. He was then held up by traffic so I was able to catch up with him and tapped on his window. I said " Oi ! a red light means stop " He said " for you but not for me " What can you do in the face of such arrogance ?
BTW, he was well dressed and driving a Merc so I don't think he was suffering much from damaging inequality
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Permalink Reply by William Booth on
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Inequality causes abuses at both ends of the spectrum - and the ones at the top end are evidently much more egregious in terms of supposed 'need' vs 'desire' - MP expenses, City greed, tax evasion, etc etc...
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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As I see it, in the 1960's we - thankfully - threw out a lot of hierarchical deference. But without - as yet - establishing commonly agreed and understood, and more egalitarian rules of reference. In other words, ways of referring to one other with mutual respect, manners and civility.
So I was impressed with the work on Civility of the Italian-American Professor Pier Massimo Forni. And surprised that his ideas don't seem to have caught-on widely in the U.K. You can find him on YouTube.
I emailed P.A. Forni. And of course, he emailed back with a polite and helpful reply.
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>>have a right and a duty to let offenders know that their behaviour is unacceptable.
Careful John! Police advice is not to intervene - leave it to the authorities.
As we've chosen an unwritten constitution in this country, I'm not sure that a claim to have a 'duty' as a citizen holds water. What other duties do we citizens of Harringay have?
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And if there isn't a policeman within 5 miles ? If they say they are too busy but they will send you a leaflet on victim support ? Sorry, but I'm not going to let the antisocials walk all over me without a protest. Other people can do as they wish but if they are unhappy with the behaviour of our society, maybe they too should stand up and be counted. The protesters in St Paul's Churchyard aren't wimping out.
But we're seriously off topic and it's my fault - sorry :)
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Not off topic, at all, John_D.
Since some of the planning and enforcement rules people are hoping to rely on in the 'new' Green Lanes, don't exist. Or even when they do, often cannot be enforced in practice without employing many more people and spending money local councils, the police and other agencies now don't get.
But there is a possible model for a solution - the Good Neighbour Agreement - which is at least worth trying out. I've posted about it before.
In one sense it's the agreement "to stand up and be counted" which you advocate. Except that it's a collective agreement which follows a community discussion about how we behave towards each other. A discussion which, as far as possible, draws in residents, landlords, traders, the police, the Council, and other agencies.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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I would love to hear the thoughts of Paul Simon Lettings, Hane, Alpha Let el al. now that would be intersting.
But on serious note. There will be very little point on sprucing up the buildings if the council somehow do not ensure they are not just covered in rotting estate agents boards and satellite dishes again.
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Do you not see, TW, that things have got this far only because some residents and some business people have worked together and come up with fresh ideas for mutual benefit?
Estate Agents' boards and satellite dishes? Are those really the key priorities and the big factors holding back the area?
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Out of interest I do think estate agent signs and satellite dishes constitute a really appalling visual blight on many parts of our locality. I'd certainly be in favour of banning the former and requiring the latter to be placed on top of the property out of view from the street. They are a sort of modern fungus unnecessarily making our lovely old buildings ugly.
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