Road. Now there's a tricky manoeuvre for the drivers! I was told that the work was going quicker than expected. In two days more than half the length of the tunnel had been cleared of sediment. One wonders whether same process is ever applied to the bed of the river. Presumably sediment builds up there too, in time, which would make the river increasingly shallow.…
sake of others, the email I use is Customer.Feedback@thameswater.co.uk.
I was going to report this latest dump last week, but I'm afraid I never got round to it.
The high wall at the Hampden Road end it the responsibility of Network Rail. I contact them a few times each year about graffiti. Their response is almost always very good and pretty fast. Sadly, Thames Water are much less customer-friendly.…
know whether it has been reported. I met a nice lady who said she would call Thames Water. I will give the RSPCA a go. Any guidance gratefully received.
On a separate note. The water is very low and I was wondering whether anyone had heard of any plans to clean this spot of river as it is full of rubbish and dumped items?
Thanks!
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member for Haringey & Enfield and now Deputy Mayor of London.
The Canals and River Trust are looking to redevelop Hale Wharf and build up to 505 new homes, of which 249 would be come from the construction of buildings ranging from 16 to 21 storeys.
As with the building for Harringay, plans for Tottenham's canalside tower have been developed in consultation with the Council's planning team. So it is almost certain that they are disposed to grant permission.
However, Joanne McCartney has entered the debate over the proposed development and calls the plans “clearly unacceptable”. In a letter submitted as part of the formal planning process, McCartney says she is particularly concerned about a lack of privacy for people surrounding the block, and says it would be out of keeping with the area, which is Green Belt land.
She writes:
Whilst accepting that this site can provide additional much needed housing the proposed development is not in keeping with the local area, is poorly designed and is far too tall.
At 21 storeys this development is much too high and out of keeping with the local area which comprises of mainly low and mid‐rise buildings. It would overshadow and impact the privacy of the Hale Village opposite and detract from the openness of the area.
The design of the proposed development is also not in keeping surrounding developments and it is not a sympathetic design in relation to its waterside setting. I do not believe that this makes a positive contribution to improve the quality or character of the area.
There's no knowing how this stand will affect the Hampden Road Tower which now awaits GLA approval. In it's first assessment of the Harringay plan, the GLA concluded:
the application does not fully comply with the London Plan, for the reasons set out in the accompanying report; but that the possible remedies set out in the report could address these deficiencies.
We know that at least one major deficiency was not corrected and that others were hidden from the GLA first time round. Joanne McCartney's stand may be politics as normal, or it may just mean that taken together with the GLA's more professional treatment of planning applications, there's reason yet to hope that London and borough level planning policy will be properly applied in this case. (But I have to say I won't be putting any money on it!).
Whatever happens with the Hampden Road application, McCartney's stand highlights what has quickly become a modus operandi for Haringey - a determination so strong to see tall buildings developed in the borough that they will be pushed through even though they contravene local and regional planning policy and in the face of the strongest opposition from its residents and now, the regional planning authority (the GLA and its mayoralty).
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th originals at 70, 68 and 66 (right). (Image Google Street View).
Bomb damage on Hampden Road shown on RAF photo from August 1947. (Image: Historic England).
Hampden Road is unique on the Ladder in being the only road comprised almost entirely of three-storey houses, save for a patch of ten two-storied houses on the north side at the western end. Burgoyne is slightly more than half three-storied, with a few four-storied houses, but the other half of it is comprised of the regular Ladder-style two-storied back-addition houses. The western end of Cavendish has a patch of four-storey houses, but the most of it is comprised of regular-style houses.…
gh average of 3109 (and 10% less than the forecast borough average for 2024 of 3293, although I expect that gap will close somewhat once the Hampden Road development is occupied).
In order to resolve that electoral inequality, we can :
- either keep the Harringay Ladder in a single ward but annex more roads from the east side of Green Lanes. I don't have numbers but adding the Gardens roads (from Stanhope Gardens to Salisbury Road) might be too many - i.e. create an oversize ward - although perhaps not if some of the other roads from Alfoxton to Colina Road were taken out?
- or split the Ladder into a north and south ward, but each new ward would need to annex even more roads to the east of Green Lanes. This is what is proposed in the new Ducketts and Manor House wards, which apart from being weird names may be a less coherent collection of community identities.…
lates taped over and covered (the ones at the front of the bunch parked up).
I was going to take photos when I came back (as I could see their rear number plates), but I thought better of it in case there was threat of a lynching!
It made me wonder if the initial problem Kevin points out may be railway workers, and not the garage I speculated earlier??? …
PTAL score for the development location tp accurately calculate the target density.
As far as the London Plan being contravened is concerned, my conversation with the GLA case officer for the Hampden Road case gave me the impression that it will be unlikely that the Council's decision will be reversed. There are several clear contraventions of the London Plan in the Hampden Road case. Whatever the situation, in any case referred to him, the Mayor has three options:
Take over the case and acti as the planning authority.
Direct the Council to make a certain decision.
Allow the Council to make its own determination.
I was told that it's very rare for the mayoral powers granted under options 1 & 2 to be exercised.
Apparently the Mayor has a meeting on the cases referred to him each Monday. He personally reads the officers' reports and recommendations prior to making a decision. Apparently the Harringay case will go before him this coming Monday or the subsequent one - a determination must be made within 14 days of the GLA having received the local decision from the Council. My level of optimism for any reversal is very low. …
gs that will soon be dotting the centre and the east of the borough.
Haringey Tall buildings plan shows towers mainly concentrated in Wood Green, New River and Tottenham.
Some of these buildings will no doubt be a welcome development, but residents will do well to continue to play a part in monitoring what's going on.
As we know from the Hampden Road development, for whatever reason, Haringey sometimes fly in the face of their own policies and approve tall buildings wherever they see fit. (Although, having said that, whilst the Hampden Road development WAS approved in contravention of Haringey's own policy, I have to admit, that having seen it built, I can't say I object to it).
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