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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Out of the frying pan …

THIS article talks about building housing on former racecourses and in that context, mentions the former 'Frying Pan' racecourse at Alexandra Palace Park.

For a while it has struck me as odd that the whole of this park is earmarked by the Council for unspecified development in their (proposed) Site Allocations document (pages 144-5 of PDF, attached below - full Site Allocations document here)

There, ownership of the 'site' is described as "unified public ownership", which is a vague uncertain term. Legally, our Park is held in trust for us, the residents of London, by a Charitable Trust (currently controlled by the local council).

The height and form of any new enabling development should be subordinate to the original façade, and contained within the existing structure.

If all that's intended are improved cycleways and the like (?), then it seems rum that the 'site' is heading for the same planning status as sites slated for multi-storey development (such as at the southern corner of the directly-Council-controlled Finsbury Park: page 110 of the above document).

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Permalink Reply by John D on June 25, 2015 at 9:14

The stands were to the west as you say. The start and finish were on the straight and the circle to the east.

Permalink Reply by John D on June 25, 2015 at 9:33
Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on June 25, 2015 at 9:46

Thanks, that explains it, I didn't realise that the 'straight' was part of the course.

There is a building at the beginning (east) of the lower path that looks like it may have been a ticket office with a length of wall adjacent to it. 

Permalink Reply by John D on June 25, 2015 at 10:03

What scares me is that the racecourse closed the year my elder son was born, which doesn't seem that long ago. Yet we have to research this as if it were the Battle of Bosworth. How much local knowledge is slipping through our fingers every day ?

Permalink Reply by Straw Cat on June 25, 2015 at 11:18

After closure the derelict stand survived for some years. It was used for open air concerts in the 70's and I saw Siouxsie and her Banshees there, if memory serves!

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