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The future of Wood Green

TOMORROW (Monday) night the Council Regulatory Committee meets to consider the future of Wood Green.

The Council paper has the snappy title, Wood Green Investment Framework & Area Action Plan: Broad Options for Regulation 18 Consultation. Of the four options listed for Wood Green's future, the Council favours Option 4 (below):

  1. High Street Rejuvenation
  2. Residential Led Town Centre
  3. Comprehensive Redevelopment
  4. Complete Transformation*

* This option promotes a complete transformation of the town centre through significant interventions aimed at unlocking the development potential of the wider town centre area through radical changes in the layout of existing urban blocks. It promotes shifting the heart of the town centre further down High Road to benefit from a new Crossrail 2 station that will be located below a new public square in the vicinity of the current library, at the heart of the new town centre. Around this square taller buildings would be located while the depth of both sides of the High Road would expand to provide larger retail floorplates with greater potential for residential above. …

For those interested, more information can be found here.

CDC
Haringey Councillor
Liberal Democrat Party
Member of the Regulatory Committee

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on January 5, 2016 at 8:16
I don't know who owns the land where the cinema and bingo hall is. Ages ago it was a bus garage of sorts (and an open air market). Maybe TfL?
No one at the meeting I attended suggested a bus garage to replace the cinema - a more beautiful building than what is there seemed to be the idea. I would imagine the option for a bus garage came from TfL.
Permalink Reply by John D on January 4, 2016 at 6:59

I can't understand this obsession with pubs

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on January 4, 2016 at 7:00
Ditto John. And pubs PLUS car parking?
Permalink Reply by Hugh on January 4, 2016 at 9:46

It's worth remembering the impact this may all have on Harringay. Most of the Council's plans for Wood Green seem to involve traffic reduction in the town centre. This means shifting the traffic elsewhere. Back in 2008 such thinking led to a plan to formalise the 'Wood Green bypass' and make Wood Green bus only. The 'Wood Green bypass' starts at Wightman Road. I very much hope that someone is scrutinising these plans with our interests in mind.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on January 4, 2016 at 10:07
That's a really important impact to look out for. If the scheme just fiddles about with the existing road layout and simply locks out the High Road to through traffic it seems pretty inevitable that the default route will be Wightman Road/Hornsey Park Road. The scheme for Wood Green cannot stand in isolation of the surrounding areas which is why it's vital that people get involved now even if they don't live in the immediate vicinity of Wood Green.
Permalink Reply by Hugh on January 4, 2016 at 13:05

That's a long way off. In the meantime we have to manage the traffic that will be with us for a good few years yet.

Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on January 4, 2016 at 13:41

The scheme for Wood Green cannot stand in isolation of the surrounding areas which is why it's vital that people get involved now even if they don't live in the immediate vicinity of Wood Green.

Michael, yes, agree. Although this evening's meeting is not a public meeting (i.e. not one in which the public can participate), it is a meeting held in public. It is intended to lead to consultation (I trust this would be a real Public Consultation and not the mere (insubstantial) "engagement" that is passed off as Consultation.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on January 4, 2016 at 14:04
Well the event I attended was excellent. Very open and welcoming. And I've been kept updated since I went along so hopefully the same people will work on the next phase too
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on January 5, 2016 at 10:37

Wightman Rd -> Hornsey park Rd -> Mayes Rd -> Station Rd -> Park Ave. That's the current bypass to the A109, then A406. It's already there. Full on pavement parking in Park Ave.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on January 5, 2016 at 12:21

It would be interesting to see the numbers of vehicles that already use this route versus Green Lanes/High Road/Green Lanes (excluding buses)

Permalink Reply by Hugh on January 5, 2016 at 12:30

I checked that out prior to the Wightman Bridge closure meeting. Taking Wightman Road as a proxy for Haringey Council's desired "Wood Green bypass", the traffic volumes are already almost in parity. See the last para of the first section (just above the first bullets) in my meeting report.

The physical, mental and social health disbenefits that this level of traffic brings to the narrow residential Wightman and rung roads are probably much more extreme that we all realise

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on January 5, 2016 at 14:06

If you have poorly installed double glazing or single glazing, the constant stream of often heavy traffic over the speedbump outside your house is almost guaranteed to mess with your mental health.

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