Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
What Makes a Neighbourhood a Friendly Place to Live?
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"The Good City" contains many innovative ideas about how London's neighbourhoods could be improved and changed for the better.
Have a read. How does Harringay measure up?
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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I've emailed him and some others. Will post back here if i find anything out.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Alexander on
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I will also email Cllr McNamara and have a chat to Cllr Carter (as he is our nearest libdem cllr) about it - the council seems to be taking a ridiculous approach to this when all it needs is a bit of simple common sense to be applied.
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Permalink Reply by Robin Dennis on
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Thanks for correcting the spelling of Cllr McNamara's name, Karen.
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Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on
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Hi Karen
We have already been in discussions with Cllr Mcnamara for a while now. Hugh contacted as quite a few weeks ago and I have asked for the demolition to be halted so that we can be sure that all possible alternatives have been looked at. I will try to find out when the decision to demolish was made. Perhaps you can shed some light on it too.
Cllr Mcnamara is asking officers all the right questions. I am no expert on structural soundness of a building and I have gone to have a look at since the issue was raised. I dont think in my view there is any harm in asking for a second survey though.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks Emine.
To repeat the question in my email of a few days ago, you said that Cllr MacNamara was planning yo visit the pavilion. Did he so when he was in the neighbourhood a few days ago?
On the structural soundness, you wrote in your comment that you don't think there's "any harm in asking for a second survey". This clearly implies that a first has been done. As I've already written above and asked you by email, I have been unable to establish that a first survey has in fact been done. So, for the avoidance of doubt, can you confirm that a survey has been done and are you able to share a copy of it, or is it easier for you one if us were to FOI it?
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Hi Hugh
The last email I got from you on this was on 30th July ? I have had an email from ant in last few days. Did you send to my private email or council? I must say I am making an assumption that a survey has been done based on the responses we have had. However I can certainly ask for confirmation. -
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It went to the one we've been exchanging on, the hotmail one, on 9th August at 13.28.
It asks no more than I've asked above. So, now that this is as wider discussion, do feel free to just respond to my two questions above here on the forum.
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Permalink Reply by Bethany on
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Hugh, demolition of this building should have its own thread. I'm sure loads of locals would be interested but it's tucked away here.
If the building is structurally sound then I would like to see it put to better use. I also agree that we should have a Harringay entrance to the park.
I went here the other day:
http://theconvenience.co.uk
Great use of a once abandoned building. -
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"...A bit of simple common sense..." Wow really?
You'd think so of many endeavours around here in LBH!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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WELL Phil, following the pavilion having recently been brought to my attention, I took a slight detour on my way to Lidl's this afternoon and took some further photos of said building, from a variety of angles.
I haven't looked at it closely before. It has certainly not seen maintenance for a long time and is in fact, derelict. It's quite a shallow building (front to back). Click for slightly larger view.
Finsbury Park is my local park and Karen Alexander has contacted me about this building.
I'm surprised that it might cost as much as £60K to demolish it. The bricks must be worth something? Would demolition be the best use of such a sum, by the Council, at this time ?
(e.g. there's an urgent need for a lights-controlled pedestrian crossing near a doctor's group practice and primary school, in another Ward (North Hill, Highgate), for which the council have claimed would cost as much.)
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Clive, thanks for the nice photos, and the discourse; you ask HoL readers: "Would demolition be the best use ... ?"
Suggest you ask - via a councillor's/member's question - Stuart McNamara (or any relevant official): rather closer to the levers of power than most HoL readers?
I realise your engagement with Harringay/Finsbury Park is as a long-time and engaged local-ish resident. But if you're identifying yourself on your postings sign-off as a councillor, well that's your community standpoint now, I think - so employ it. I suggest.
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