Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Woodberry down regeneration - big piece in the Guardian
A long piece has just gone up on the Guardian site about the Woodberry Down regeneration, with lots of interviews & videos:
Woodberry Down is a vast north-east London council estate undergoing an ambitious transformation. But while eager developers court foreign buy-to-let investors, are they casting aside long-term residents like 'social rubbish'? We spent six months on site to hear the locals' stories
See: The truth about gentrification: regeneration or con trick?
Tags for Forum Posts: Hackney, Manor House, Regeneration
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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The Happy Man pub will not be demolished, it was bought by the Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School. Very one sided and inaccurate but I suspect it was responsible for the rebranding of the site as Woodberry Down and the new advertising hoardings, the previous ones were quite distasteful, so interesting.
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I'm not told that the pub will be replaced with flats in the latest phase of the plan. All the same, this was a bit of a left wing hatchet job. They could have done a lot more good turning their torch northwards into Tottenham.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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But Tottenham doesnt yet have shining towers by the waterside for a photo essay. Of course there are vistas like Lordship Park and the many small infill blocks of new housing, but so far these shining postcard pics elude us. I have tried to make such visions work down at Tottenham Hale, but so far the - er - lighting has eluded me.
There are some good dereliction-porn images to be found round Spurs, though.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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It sort of does, Pam. Just search on Flickr for "Hale Village".
And we can also imagine the future without too much trouble.
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Oops, I meant: I'm NOW told... sorry for the confusion but goodbye The Happy Man...
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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... 'or of officials flogging public land to big companies and not even getting any affordable homes in return (as Haringey council has done with the new £400m Spurs development.'
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"We spent six months on site" makes them sound like latter-day W Eugene Smiths who lived in among the people he photographed, for years. I bet they just got the 341 up from Stokey.
But a useful article, this kind of thing makes my head explode.
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Geoff Bell who runs the WDCO board (a bit like the GLSG) at Woodberry Down had this to say. With the twitter exchange I've just had with the author (OK, there were two and by ignoring the less famous one I'm obviously sexist) I'm thinking they've taken some stick from it. Aditya Chakraborty used journalists posing as residents on the Woodberry Down Facebook groups. He did History at Oxford too... I wonder how old he is :)
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Further to this, I can't find anyone in the Facebook Group at Woodberry Down who is a Guardian Journalist so he didn't actually talk to any of the yuppies at all. Well he spoke to Paul and he's not entirely happy about what was written. If you haven't read Geoff's response, please do (linked above).
What they say is happening here is happening in other places in London but hilariously enough, not at Woodberry Down.
The woman who had to move to Ipswich was involved early on in the regen and decided (ill advisedly) to exercise her right to buy thinking she would get a nice new flat. That is not how CPOs work in this country, purely to discourage property speculation such as that. If she had done it earlier and had more equity in her flat should could probably have bought over in Tiverton Estate. If she hadn't at all then Geoff would have ensured that she got a nice new flat, albeit one owned by Hackney Council/Genesis.
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