the LTN.
My weekly 5-minute journey from Wightman Road to Green Lanes took 45 minutes, including 30 minutes to go the length of Hampden Road. Yes, I know that there was a burst water main. But in happier times traffic would have been distributed across the roads now blocked off and not confined to Green Lanes. Yes, I know that I could have taken a bus to sit in the same traffic jam as I did this evening but in any case there aren't any buses between my house and the bottom of Effingham Road.
I understand the concerns of those residents living in the LTN who hope that the pollution in their streets will be reduced but don't the residents of Green Lanes, Turnpike Lane and Wightman Road breathe ? don't their children have lungs ?. Where did the Council think the LTN traffic would go ?
And please don't suggest to this disabled person that I could have cycled. I couldn't.…
stops up the train line). So when this place came up I couldn't believe my luck: the flat is lovely, the area is great and the price is... well... just about doable.
But - I've just had the environmental search returned and it's raised a potential problem: it's received a 'moderate' rating for 'potential for natural ground instability in the area within 50m of the property.' The rest of the information in this section is frustratingly ambiguous and basically recommends purchasing a further search or contacting a structural engineer.
So I was wondering - has anyone else in Hampden Rd/the nearby area experienced the same rating when buying? Past experience with subsidence issues has made me less jumpy and increasingly skeptical about 'potential' ratings such as this, but it's also taught me that if I go down the route of engaging a structural engineer it can make it really difficult to take out insurance in the future.
I'd be really grateful if anyone with a similar experience would be prepared to share it with me, and/or offer any advice.
Many thanks in advance.
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lighting etc.) in the next financial year (April 2024-March 2025). As you may recall, last year Zena and I had succeeded in including Hampden Road, Hewitt Road and Beresford Road in the list for this financial year.
If you would like me to nominate specific roads in Harringay ward for maintenance, I'd be very happy to hear from you on Anna.Abela@haringey.gov.uk.
I would be grateful if you could kindly include the following information in your email:
Road name and relevant section of the road (e.g. between house numbers 12 - 24).
Type of work (e.g. road or pavement repairs, drainage, street lighting, and other issues such as potholes and road resurfacing).
Brief details of work required.
Of course, as this is a Borough-wide exercise, I expect that only a few Harringay roads will be included in the final programme of works, so I would encourage residents to focus their suggestions on the roads that are in greatest need of maintenance.
In order to give me enough time to submit my response ahead of the deadline, I'd be grateful to receive your suggestions by 20th August.
I look forward to receiving your suggestions.
Kind regards,
Anna Abela
Ward Councillor for Harringay ward…
d you need to know now, there's a list of Haringey polling stations at https://voting.haringey.gov.uk/polling-stations/polling-stations-list/.
Harringay Ward has four. Yours is probably the one nearest to you, but it's not always that straightforward if you live mid-Ladder. If you haven't voted before in Harringay, one of your neighbours will have done.
Willoughby Methodist Church Hall, Hampden Road, London, N8 0HU HA1
North Harringay Primary School, Frobisher Road Entrance, London, N8 0NU
South Harringay Junior School, Mattison Road, Harringay, London, N4 1BD
St Paul's Church Centre, Cavendish Road, London, N4 1RT HA4
The list also includes four stations each for both St Ann's and Seven Sisters wards.…
three children at the time. The eldest was Reginald, aged 6. Ethel was 5 and Winifred just 3.
Henry was a Carpenter and Joiner, working with the Great Northern Railway. The family moved out at the end of 1905.
The other candidate was Rose Byrd. At the start of 1904 she was living in Station Mansions on the corner of Hampden Road with her husband Frederick, a shop fitter's clerk. By the end of 1905 they had moved in to number 305. Their son Charles was aged 5 and Stanley was newborn. Frederick died in January 1906. By 1911, the census shows that Rose was running the premises as a boarding house. She continued to live there into the 1920s.
I'd say that the profile best fits the Perrot's. The photo might show Reginald and his youngest sister Winifred standing in the doorway. On the street outside the house, perhaps we have Anne and Henry with their older daughter Ethel. Perhaps the gent in the middle is the father of one of the two.…
Council in the mid-Sixties as part of the 182 dwelling Haringey Grove Redevelopment Project. Along with Hollom House, the low rise building next to it, 42 terraced houses were built. Hollom House is still standing, although completely refurbished. The flats were built by the council and the houses by the London and Quadrant Housing Trust.
The project, part of the wider Haringey Central Area Scheme, involved the demolition of the Victorian housing and streets that stood on the triangle of land between Turnpike Lane, Wightman Road and the New River. The main aim was to allow for the realignment of Wightman-Turnpike junction, to provide vehicular access to the planned 'new' Wood Green. The work at Haringey Grove included the demolition of the shops and houses on the north-western end of Wightman Road and south-western part of Turnpike Lane along with the two small residential roads, Haringey Grove and Denmark Road.
The name of Haringey Grove was commemorated through the name of the single storey community building standing at the corner of Wightman and Denmark Roads. Not that anyone knows it, but the building is called the Haringey Grove Community Centre. Hollom House was named after a series of fields that had bordered the south of Turnpike Lane (Upper Hollom Beech, Lower Hollom Beech and Hollom Beech Grove, all of which were a part of the Harringay House Estate from 1805)
According to the Municipal Journal, the two towers were known as the 50-week flats after the very short building time estimated for their complete construction. This might explain why the whole development was demolished just over thirty years later, in 1998, to make way for the low rise housing currently standing.
The second photo shows the buildings c1980.
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e form the top photo taken today. The bollard has gone from preacrious to donwnright dangerous. What would happen if a kid were to run into it?
I reported the issue to Network Rail, since it's my understanding that the road over the New River and to the west of it is a private road owned by Network Rail.
This sign on the road reinforced that idea.
But Network Rail insisted it's not theirs. They sent me the map below as evidence.
When I first saw the map, I rather wondered if it didn't do the opposite of what they say. So I asked what the brown and yellow areas indicated. They answered
I can confirm that the Network Rail land is the bright green. The yellow and brown sections are Network Rail owned land but are leased as depots.
So I checked my understanding and asked whether this didn't mean it was their land and their responsibility. They answered:
the bollard is on a public highway and as such is the responsibility of the Highways Department to maintain. The local authority is responsible for maintaining, repairing and cleaning all public highways, even if the land is owned by us.
I gave up trying to understand the logic and tried reporting it to the Council on 14th July. They auto-reponded as follows.
Thank you for reporting an enquiry in Wightman Road, N8 Hornsey via Haringey's Website.
Additional information reported: + Date and time originally reported: 14/07/2020 13:21:00. + Nearest Property Location: 387 Wightman Road, London, N8 0NA. + Nature of defect: Miscellaneous.
We will inspect the enquiry in line with our highways maintenance plan and repair the defect if it meets the appropriate investigatory and risk assessment levels.
And that was the last I heard. I haven't walked that way so much recently. Then today I saw what had become of the bollard. Am I being a fusspot or does this look dangerous to anyone else?
If Haringey and Network Rail can't sort something out between them, something nasty is going to happen. Haringey, you exist in our name: I'm looking to you to ensure a solution is found, please.
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ouncil really need to pull their finger out and get tough on Veolia. This is their basic contract with the council to provide a refuse service. If they're failing, and they clearly are, why not take legal action? Anyone know if there is a precedent of a council doing this? I guess if they did take them to court and broke the contract/given costs, it may make it difficult with any future negotiations, but something has to change.
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surroundings wherever they are built. However, as Haringey made explicitly clear in their recent Hampden Road decision, they will ignore their own tall buildings policy along with any other policy so as to "take each case on its own merits".
I'm left to conclude that planning policy is there as a rough rule of thumb available to the council when it needs support for its decisions, but readily dispensed with when it doesn't accord with the prevailing political will. In any future encounter with planning, the first form of influence I would seek to harness would be political. I'd aim to support that, (deal more cynically than hereunto), with reference to policy. …
trollers, magazines and what not tidy.
It's dimensions are 95cm width by 95cm length by 30cm height. The 4 feet can be detached with a screwdriver.
There are a couple of minor paint chips on the edges, easily repaintable.
The item would need collecting on Hampden Road. It's for sale at £20, or alternatively willing to swap it if you can dispose of 15 bags of garden waste at the tip/recycling.
Get in touch if you're interested.
Cheers,
Dan…