Seven Sisters market to go?

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Permalink Reply by Lu on October 10, 2018 at 13:27

Check this piece to read a bit about the history of this issue and an overview of Grainger's (developer) plans. This community set new grounds on planning law a few years ago and yet Haringey Council seems intent on railroading their view of regeneration at the expense of communities.

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/01/world/london-latin-quarter/index...

There is a fundraising activity for legal costs of the fight. If you would like to contribute, please check this page: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/latinvillagepueblitopaisa/?utm_so... 

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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on October 10, 2018 at 22:35

Thanks for this.

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Permalink Reply by matt on October 10, 2018 at 14:11

The biggest bogeyman of all is TfL. The article points out that TfL own the land due to the nearby tube station and they refused to sign a lease directly with the market traders. TfL are all about maximising rents on their land around and within tube stations. See Crossrail for their retail strategy. 

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 10, 2018 at 14:13

The London Plan, pushed through by TfL (see the main bit I'm talking about here), uses a mathematical equation to apportion allowed densities to residential developments in London according to how close they are to a transport node. The "bigger" the node and the closer it is, the denser you can build. The pressure to turn land around tube and railway stations into housing (instead of places to work, usually) is huge. The fact that this has mostly enriched TfL and Network Rail is merely eyebrow raising. Funny how the government can behave like a private enterprise too sometimes :)

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 10, 2018 at 18:33

You refer to this issue with great regularity, John. It IS a factor in deciding planning applications, but its NOT the ONLY factor -

"it is only the start of planning housing development, not the end. It is not appropriate to apply Table 3.2 (Public Transport Accessibility Level) mechanistically."

Haringey's policies take this into account as a factor, but they figure in many other things.

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Permalink Reply by Roger on October 11, 2018 at 8:43

... with the council so hollowed out by the austerity imposed by the coalition government there's precious little funding to do anything more than go along with what TFL plan... without a hike in council tax its unlikely to change...

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