Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New Pavements so Good you Could Eat your Dinner off them
Walking home this evening I was struck by how nice Harringay's new pavements look; more airport terminal than high street.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Hah ! In Tottenham we get Tarmac round the new non-one-way on all but the very busiest high road bits, and those are not quite finished yet, patched in with Tarmac round all the corners and tricky bit, they can lay square slabs but not cut them to fit.
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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We got tarmac too when ours was replaced. It is much better than our old pavements but still very uneven and not very pretty.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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......in which connection, it's rather fun that on many of the Ladder roads you can still see the boundary between the old Hornsey and Tottenham boundaries by where the paving stops (Tottenham) and becomes tarmac (Hornsey)....with the exception of Effingham which, alone amongst all residential roads in Harringay, was unaccountably relaid with brand new pavement along its entire length some years ago.
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Permalink Reply by CanadianMichael on
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Surely these kind of things are down to Who knew Who and a quiet word spoken at the right time when paving was being done...
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Nice that Santa popped into iCut for a trim.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Which airport terminal Hugh?
Looks like some people have had their dinner off some very new paving slabs, and left the marks of their food and waste. I can't get excited, some already look dirty and they show the dirt more than the old ones.
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Speaking of which when are we going to see real 'concrete' improvements to Green Lanes.This is beginning to look like a squandered opportunity, Like others have pointed out the pavement will soon look a mess-thats guaranteed, and its already started, they wont be maintained properly, thats for sure - if you need proof of that look at Wood Green High Street. OK maybe you can walk down Green Lanes without twisting your ankle, The hullabaloo raised about the regeneration of Green Lanes , has turned out to be a very damp squib. Highly disappointing. Thankfully some good restaurants, cafes, businesses etc there, some new ones too, hope they stay.
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Putting in new stuff does not solve the major issue. Why did the streets and properties in the area become so run down despite the existence of policies and the long spending boom that latest from post thatcher crash? It s not that te resources i.e. money wasn't there but that the Council is "deprived". It just was not fit for purpose in its systems and its make up. Children's services that malfunctioned resulting in death. A public realm that deteriorated to the point that the placed looked "3rd world". Planning policy pratices that did not carry out their control functions so that the heritage assets have dteriorated or been demolished and replaced with mediocre replacements and house stripped of their character and illegally converted.
There is some realisation that the human resordecs and systems at LBH must change with heads rolling but there is no evidence that the way the politicians in charge have inproved and so no guarantee that the big investment in built stuff will optimize the outcomes.
Very sad and depressing!
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it is depressing though I try to be optimistic but replacing pavements was never going to be a real source of regeneration. We should be starting with people's heads not their feet.
The proliferation of big restaurants only adds to the pollution and dirt along Green lanes and the streets off these where many of us live.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Howgate on
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Erm yes despite all that they look ok for now :)
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