Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
RIBA's 5 best Cinemas
I would have included Crouch End, tough competition. Recently I saw Star Wars and spotted Robert Peston.
The building was is an experience in itself.
Crouch End shows that we can dream, I dream that Screen On the Green, Duckets Common, will become a reality. We already have cinema clubs, with close proximity to Turnpike Lane tube this would extend the catchment of appeal.
It's not too unusual to predict that The Queens Head building is at risk, and will be demolished together with the old cinema to make way for a medium density building as a landmark development.
The Duckets Common cinema was one of the longest running electric cinemas in London, even mentioned on GLR on the Robert Elms show. There is no value placed on our historic buildings it seems.
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Permalink Reply by andy h on
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Hi Mathew, I was just having the same conversation this morning with my wife, But I doubt that end of duckets common will ever return as a cinema or a gastro pub.
I suspect that a site that large in this area will become another housing development. 200 apartments with another super sized Turkish is far more likely.
Let's just hope that the building will be beautiful
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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This will inevitably raise the question of child yield and health provision, as critical mass increases.
Where will local children go to school? We aren't building Schools, we no longer have a hospital in the borough, it would seem critical mass is failing any provision for infrastructure in Haringey, where's the long term plan?
I thought the Jewson's site at Harringay, could provide the space necessary for a senior entry addition to Heartlands High, with quick connection by train.
The Hawes and Curtis site may provide a NHS facility on the high street, for cancer screening and CT scanning, to make facilities as convenient and ledgeable as possible.
1000 homes are planned for Heartlands, together with the Wood Green redevelopment and the Chocolate Factory.
I estimate 10,000 people could live in the Warehouse district between Seven Sister to St Ann's, how will artisans be retained, perhaps by affordable accommodation through StArt N15.
The St Ann's site could also provide for independent senior citizens, and age care for the borough, a new school facility, adding diversity of choice to equal the West of the borough, together with the affordable housing mix proposed.
Reinstating the Victorian rail station of St Ann's on the Barking line, (relocated at Hermatage Rd,) would stimulate opportunities for St Ann's, and help connect the St Ann's NHS site, with services at the Whittington, and the Royal Free Hospital.
Travel on the overground would be more convenient and less stressfull for patients traveling across North East London for health care. Local retail opportunities could also be improved by the increased footfall, reducing dependence on the car, as the NHS redevelopment proposal indicated a high car yield.
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Permalink Reply by OneWomanAndHerDog on
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I’d like to add a little background to the conversation about historic buildings not being valued. I worked at English Heritage, London Region, from 1995 to 2005. In the 1990s, Elain Harwood, a historian at what was then English Heritage worked very hard to get the best surviving historic cinemas listed and thus protected. Unfortunately, many had by then been sold to unsympathetic owners who gutted them and thus took away much of what made them special. That doesn’t mean that they don’t make a contribution to the local civic amenity and we should all be badgering Haringey to add buildings to the local list wherever possible but sadly locally listed buildings only really have clout when they sit in a conservation area. Perhaps the best we can hope for is a replacement scheme of equal architectural merit...
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