Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
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):
- High Street Rejuvenation
- Residential Led Town Centre
- Comprehensive Redevelopment
- 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
Tags for Forum Posts: complete transformation, regulatory committee, wood green, wood green spd
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Permalink Reply by Alice Lemaitre on
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Some really good examples of integrated transport including tramways in Nantes and Montpellier. It also includes car sharing for those who live in more remote places.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Exactly.. But it won't happen.. You're talking Tory U.K. here
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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Michael - Anyone that suggest smashing down the cinema in the middle of town to replace it with a bus garage doesn't deserve to attend a meeting like that if you me.
Security should have escorted him or her out immediately. Obviously a danger to society at large.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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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.
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Ditto John. And pubs PLUS car parking?
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You can manage that with a breathalyser test on everyone as they go out managed by an independent security firm paid by the bar. The thing I'm thinking off actually turned the whole car park into an arts / bar venue. Cars were not allowed in.
With uber being so cheap, who needs a private car in London ?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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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.
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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.
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Yes to a mass pedistrianisation ! Less roads, less cars. There are more lungs breathing in fumes on the high street than side streets. Lots of people live above the shops too.
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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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.
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