Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New Haringey Administration to Reverse Plans to Demolish Flats above Shopping City
Page High and Sky City Social Housing developments above Wood Green Shopping City were slated for demolition under the Wood Green Area Action Plan – a regeneration scheme drawn up by Haringey Council in 2016 under Claire Kober’s Labour administration.
The plans could have forced hundreds of social housing tenants out of the Sky City and Page High estates – with no guarantee they would be re-housed inside the borough.
But the current Labour administration, elected in May on a pledge to protect social housing, has announced it does not intend to go ahead with the plans.
Council Leader, Charles Adje said, “We have listened to representations made by residents of Page High and Sky City, and by the Mall, and are intending to remove these sites from redevelopment plans.”
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Hear hear Liz, totally agree. I
grew up on council estate and it was lovely till the sell-offs began and it became private rented horror stories. So many new builds are poor quality, very tiny, over priced and won't last long. Why demolish homes which is so drastic when there is no need? Perhaps a bit of fixing up might be in order in some cases but wholescale demolition? Many examples of good estates being flattened and the newer ones being 2nd rate, minus their original tenants.
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Permalink Reply by Cat A on
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At risk of sounding like the background to PMQs, hear hear! I'm told by people who've worked on my flat (in a similar looking estate) that Haringey basically built flats in the 70s and 80s using techniques you'd normally see in light industrial units, and consequently they're pretty bombproof. OK, Homes for Haringey can be pretty crap about little things (hello corridor lightbulb that's been blown for over a year despite several claims it's been fixed) but they're no worse than privately managed places and better about the big things.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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1980s. I think they look quite snazzy and wouldn't mind one myself. Seen what they're building at Hornsey Station?
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Permalink Reply by Michele on
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Have you seen all the new private tower blocks going up? Many are lacking in any amenities and are more claustrophobic with much smaller rooms - these have the whole of wood green high rd. on their doorstep, including shops, bars, restaurants, cinemas, library, the Big Green Bookshop and brilliant transport links. All at reasonable rents.
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Just pure prejudice...
The problem is not teh flats themselves but teh systems, or ratehr the lack of, and resosources to ensure that our urban environement is kept well maintained. For this we NEED to have investment in not just the housing but alos the services that kkep the centres going, cleaning, regular upkeep and refurbs of the streets, teh parks the urban furniture, etc, themnselves. Then there is all the rest as with education, socail sevcies etc. So to 'blame' the housing for the said squalor is tio use teh same excuses taht teh revious regime used and in fact not seeking really address the problems but jsut to decant the less well off so that the better healed can move in and present a nicer veneer for investors.
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You have a strange idea of "Near Squalor". Perhaps you should look at sme of the private rented flats and houses in the Borough for those.= - they are not all amazing!
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What really annoys me is the constant attack on the council. I don’t agree with a lot of what Haringey intends to do but when they wanted to knock these down the residents of these flats and others protested to stop it. Now they are stopping it for what ever reason again we are getting complaints like some of the comments here. It appears to me they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t..make up your mind residents....
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Kotkas writes: "It also appeases a large proportion of the existing electorate."
What's the subtext here?
It seems to be something like: What a pity that council actually has to defer to the wishes of the electorate, or at least to a 'large proportion' of it. Presumably including just the sort of person who could otherwise be socially cleansed from the borough by demolishing what's left of our social housing.
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