New Flats Approved for Wood Green Town Centre

How it is: The site today (from Google Maps)

An eight-storey block of flats will be built on the site of the BHS store building on Wood Green High Street. This returns its use to that of the early Twentieth Century when Dovecote Villas used to stand on the same site.

How it was: The site in 1905 (far right). On the left is Coleraine Road.

Haringey councillors have approved a development that will bring 197 new homes to Wood Green High Road, along with a hotel, shops and a public courtyard.

It will replace the brutalist concrete building that was home to a BHS store before the chain went out of business in 2016.

There will be a mix of one, two, three and four-bed units, with a third of the affordable homes classed as suitable for families. Social rented homes, which make up 64 per cent of the affordable housing, will start at £105 per week for a one-bedroom flat. Haringey Council will be given the chance to buy the affordable homes – which make up 40 per cent of the development – before they are offered to other buyers.

How it will be: Developer's sketch of what the development will look like