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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

RE the proposed development behind Wickes/St Anns Road, as described here

The proposal has now attracted 23 comments . They fall into two broad categories, those supporting it as we need more housing and they like the design, and those opposed as this is a precious green space and the buildings are not appropriate.

Sadly my comment - that I don't understand how a company with a £1/4million debt can in reality carry out this proposal -  has been taken down by LBH, as 'your comments submitted are not appropriate to be considered for the application.'    This echoes eg Cllr Stanton's approving the Wards Corner slash+burn Grainger development as the only considerations are those that apply strictly to planning guidelines.  Guidance here.

So my questioning the ability of a company to carry out and complete a massive building project is not permitted on the planning portal. Can someone please advise me where I may raise such a query?  If I were to propose a zillion-pound plan for that area based on what's saved in my biscuit tin, I would expect my plan to be shot down at the first airing of it. But if that is not the case, then I will start work now on designing a community-use nature park there, as my biscuit tin is in credit.  Then me and Mr Jechiel Smaya Weiser, director and sole shareholder of Gate of Eden Ltd, can dook it out over who can best make promises about this piece of land, with LBH as referee, is that how it works?  Who in LBH planning dept has the brief to scrutinise the viability of such major plans? 

Tags for Forum Posts: development, ermine, green corridor, planning, plevna

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@Pam, exactly. I see yet another planning scandal here. There hasn't been any scrutiny of this development. The council seem so desperate to encourage the construction of yet more slums for Tottenham.

That gets us nowhere Neville, these designs are not slums, they are just very ordinary box houses and flats. The question is whether the site is right for 158 new dwellings, regardless of design.

We are never going to get top quality design in Tottenham, LBH are not going to pay for Richard Rogers to sketch out the next town hall. We just have to hang on to what's left of the best of the older buildings, when cost-cutting was not top of the list - unlike eg the ugly Grainger slab that looms in all our futures and hopefully will stay 100 years away.

Pam has a point Neville..

What ever happened to 'Civic Pride' in the UK?

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