Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
St Anns Hospital & Ally Pally sell off Condems, Self-serves at it again
Pinched this post from FB, just wanted to share in case some people did not know.
Alexandra Palace and St Ann's Hospital are up for quick sale tomorrow morning: a Freedom of Information request has disclosed the amazing list of sites which Haringey Council is taking to the "Sitematch" London speed-dating event with property developers at the Shard on Wednesday 2nd April. The list includes the Love Lane council housing estate and valuable community facilities around the borough.
Come down to the Shard, 32 Joiner Street, Southwark, SE1 9QU at 8.00 am on Wednesday 2nd April to protest.
Let's say no to this love-in between local authorities and property developers.
Hands off our homes, communities and public spaces!
Developers pay £778.80 per person for 15-minute ‘speed-dating’ style meetings at Sitematch to make their quick pitch to buy these prime sites.
Tottenham Labour Councillor Alan Stanton says that Haringey’s sale of its housing estates means “social cleansing in the interest of profit, for developers, Arup, and other consultants”. Cllr Stanton quips, "Take a chunk of Tottenham. Take two or three. We've plenty to dispose of, for next to nothing".
The Sitematch publicity artwork, designed by the artist Gene Cornelius, goes to town celebrating the ‘speed-dating’ theme. See one of the images here:
http://www.3foxfiles.co.uk/.../estates_gazette_sitematch.pdf
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Permalink Reply by Straw Cat on
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Anyone go to the Shard? The Pally has just been featured in a C4 programme about gay weddings celebrated in the Theatre; maybe Haringey think that after the messy divorce with the dark, suave and handsome - but unreliable - Mr Firoz Kassam, there's still a Mr Right for Ally Pally out there waiting to be wooed and won
The details on offer on the site are
Borough: Haringey
Site owner: Private [sic]
Site Size: 79.3ha
Planning Status: Not Granted
Uses: Leisure, Hotelsbeside a picture of the Palm Court (which actually does not form part of the SW wing area legally available for leasing as a hotel under the 1985 Act, but hey, that's nit-picking)...
And as Clive Carter informs me 79.3 hectares represents the entire Palace AND park! Some dowry ...
I particularly like the description of the ownership (a charitable trusteeship held on behalf of the People) as "private".
Personally I'm unromantically looking for an, er, conscious uncoupling of the Pally from Haringey Council..
Jacob
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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FOR the council to imply that our charitable Trust's main asset of our land on this list, up for sale, appears on the face of it, to be a mistake by the Trustee, Haringey Council.
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