62/64 Sydney Road N8 Prunus kanzan. Tree has been colonised by *Ganoderma sp. / Significant basal decay
2. OS 44 Sydney Road N8 Prunus sp. Dead Tree
3.OS 64 Hampden Road N8 Prunus cerasifera. Tree has been colonised by *Laetipporus sulphurous / Decay in stem.
4. Near Hall Frobisher Road N8 Prunus cerasifera. Tree has been colonised by *Ganoderma sp / has decay present in stem
5. OP 84 Frobisher Road N8 Prunus kanzan. Tree has heavy decay / hollow / Tree has been colonised by *Ganoderma / Decay in stem
6. OS 38 Frobisher Road N8 Prunus sp. Dead Tree
7. OS 8 Fairfax Road N8 Prunus cerasifera ‘nigra’. Split in trunk and stem / Crown and basal decay / decay in union and split.
*You cannot treat decay fungi once it has colonised a tree. The fungal fruiting bodies usually only appear after the trunk or branch are substantially decayed. Trees identified with fungal fruiting bodies or other major defects cannot be safely retained on the public highway where the risk of damage or injury is high. Unfortunately, in situations like this, removal is the only option. It is regrettable when mature trees have to be removed, however, the Council has a duty of care with regards to trees and must take action where hazards are evident to minimise the risk to people and property. Prior to removing these tree, warning signs will be erected on the trees informing residents that they are to be removed.
It is the council’s normal practice to leave a tree pit vacant for 12-18 months after the removal of a tree to allow the tree matter in the soil to decay.
Subject to funding we aim to prioritise 4 different wards each year for replacement and new tree planting. The Harringay ward is next scheduled to be targeted in the 2017/18 planting season. There is a commitment within the Council Plan to plant at least 150 new trees a year and we would seek to plant some new trees in Harringay Ward as part of this commitment.
In the meantime should there be an interest from resident groups, there is tree sponsorship which a form can be downloaded from the councils web page.
In the last 11 years 266 have been planted in the Harringay Ward.
I can confirm that no trees will be felled until Councillors have had an opportunity to review and comment on this response, and we will then review our approach and communicate accordingly. Should you have comments, please send by close of business 22nd July 16
If you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact me
Kindest Regards
George Bayford
Arboricultural & Allotments Officer
Haringey Council, Arboricultural and Allotments Service, 6th Floor, Alexandra House, Station Road, London, N22 7TR
Telephone: 0208 489 5685 Email: george.bayford@haringey.gov.uk
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rt of the western parts of the borough get to keep 25% of receipts and govern its spending. In the east, as things stand, it's 15% to be spent on our behalf by the Council after 'consultation' with ’the community’ (See attached map).
So, this is possibly another reason to look again at whether a neighbourhood forum for Harringay might be an idea.
Even without that, we should be mindful of the following in the regulations:
"The government does not prescribe a specific process for agreeing how the neighbourhood portion should be spent. Charging authorities should use existing community consultation and engagement processes. This should include working with any designated neighbourhood forums preparing neighbourhood plans that exist in the area, theme specific neighbourhood groups, local businesses (particularly those working on business led neighbourhood plans), and using networks that ward councillors use.”
"Charging authorities should set out clearly and transparently their approach to engaging with neighbourhoods using their regular communication tools eg website, newsletters, etc. The use of neighbourhood funds should therefore match priorities expressed by local communities, including priorities set out formally in neighbourhood plans.”
We should be mindful that our ‘Area’as defined for CIL purposes includes most of the centre of Wood Green. Knowing how the Council like to splash out on Wood Green, we need to be careful that Harringay doesn’t get forgotten.
We should remember that the purpose of the CIL is to "address the demands that development places on an area". So we need to think about how the Hampden Road and Hawes & Curtis developments impact on Harringay and seek to get those specifically 'addressed'.
Looking at the borough more generally, I'm quite surprised at the CIL amounts showing across the borough Highgate is expected to get £1.5M, Alexandra/Muswell Hill £1M, Crouch End £800,000. Tottenham is only due for £170,000 and Northumberland Park, £70,000. Does this seem odd to anyone else? I thought most of the development is going to be in the East.…
in the news for reasons of high finance. This must be unsettling for TW’s many employees who carry on its business but who have nothing at all to do with its financial difficulties and who have, arguably, suffered from the abusive practices by some of TW’s controlling shareholders.
My garden runs alongside land belonging to the New River (and thus to TW) so for the past 44 years we have been neighbours and I have been on nodding terms with a long line of TW people working along the River. I greatly appreciate their work which is not always pleasant. In the 1990s I was in favour of opening the Wightman Road to Hampden Road stretch of the river bank for public access which is when the green high-security fencing was installed. As most of the path’s users will be aware, there have been some downsides. For instance, some users leave bottles and drinks cans lying about, other malefactors are attracted by the surfaces available for spray painting, others use the path for fly tipping, last year some down-and-outs started to establish sleeping quarters under our windows. In earlier years, schoolboys were to be seen skulking harmlessly behind TW’s huts (now gone) having a fag. More recently, teenagers sometimes gather with inflated balloons while making a hullabaloo (laughing gas I suppose).
Periodically, TW’s contractors appear with mowers and strimmers and cut the grass on the riverbanks including along the path. I know that the contractors are told not to cut any Japanese knotweed that they find but I don’t know what instructions they have for picking up extraneous stuff they encounter or for taking away any clippings that can’t sensibly be left to degrade naturally. Obviously, if you run a heavy mower over discarded beer cans, they are likely to be shredded. After the contractor’s recent visit, an accumulation of stuff was left near the Wightman Road gate (see pictures below). I am writing this now because this very morning, one of TW’s finest appeared and removed all of the rubbish shown. I don’t know whether this is normally his duty on a Sunday, nor whether he resented this task, nor whether it was a result of the initiative by Cowper and his team of volunteers. What I do know is that some TW people are still doing a good job for us and that I, for one appreciate it. It is also clear that some of the rubbish he took away was left by people using the path and it is good to know that some residents are willing to clear up the mess left by less responsible users of the path.
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s included in the lease to the operating company.
The search facility on HoL is good but not great. So it's not easy to search here. But here's one link. And a second one here. (There may be more.) I looked into a this few years back, because of a parking query from a friend of mine. I was sent a plan by Haringey and Adam Coffman got a more detailed one.
What is really dismaying is the apparent failure of the Council or any of the agencies involved to learn from work done in the past to investigate and establish such basic facts. As you describe, this has meant inconvenience to residents, to local businesses and organisations. Plus an apparent delay in identifying who is responsible for taking action and getting started. And now it's a Bank Holiday weekend.
So while all credit to Pat and her colleagues who did the detective work, the fact is that they really shouldn't have had to start again from scratch. It was a waste of time and effort. Pat had to battle with an incompetent system: one which either failed to store information properly; or fails to retrieve it quickly and efficiently.
This seems to be part of wider issues which increasingly worry me. Haringey staff - and our "partners" in other agencies - often appear to walk or drive past obvious street problems: either without noticing them; or perhaps ignoring them. A water leak causing a pool over several days is hardly difficult to spot.
In this case we had the advantage that residents took the trouble to phone/email and report a problem. People who - I would guess - can be persistent and are confident in dealing with bureaucracies. You can probably imagine what happens in parts of the borough where residents are perhaps less articulate, don't have English as their first language, and may be a lot easier to fob-off.
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ich is not provided by them after completion at their chosen price. This usually means that they have to agree to some level of 'affordable housing'. There are three types of 'affordable housing' Tex below from gov.uk).
1. Social rented housing is owned by local authorities and private registered providers (as defined in section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008), for which guideline target rents are determined through the national rent regime. It may also be owned by other persons and provided under equivalent rental arrangements to the above, as agreed with the local authority or with the Homes and Communities Agency.
2. Affordable rented housing is let by local authorities or private registered providers of social housing to households who are eligible for social rented housing. Affordable Rent is subject to rent controls that require a rent of no more than 80 per cent of the local market rent (including service charges, where applicable).
3. Intermediate housing is homes for sale and rent provided at a cost above social rent, but below market levels subject to the criteria in the Affordable Housing definition above. These can include shared equity (shared ownership and equity loans), other low cost homes for sale and intermediate rent, but not affordable rented housing. Homes that do not meet the above definition of affordable housing, such as ‘low cost market’ housing, may not be considered as affordable housing for planning purposes.
If we take the Hampden Road development as an example, no social rented housing was included. Only other types of 'affordable housing' was included. Flats are nw on sale for £0.5M for a one bed flat. Therefore one of the 'affordable' flats to buy in this development would be £400k.
A further complication is that is is very typical that part way through the build of a development a developer will go back to the Council, plead cost overruns and bargain to reduce the previously agreed level of 'affordable housing'.
At theis stage, he following as been agreed -
Chocolate Factory - 72 affordable.
Iceland - 32 affordable.
If this development is running to form it's probably safe to assume that 'affordable' in this instance doesn't include social rented.…
re just to the west of the town centre. These plans will see blocks of accommodation built on part of the Chocolate Factory site and on the Iceland site.
The future look of the eastern part of the Chocolate Factory site
They're a small part in the development jigsaw that aims to bring a completely revamped Wood Green. A consultation on the plans ended last week.
Below is a striking visualisation from the Council's masterplan illustrating their future hopes for Wood Green. (You can see a full copy of the latest 'Area Action Plan' here).
You'll note that the building heights taper off away from the centre of the town - except of course for the illicitly approved 14 storey block now being built in Hampden Road.
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l double bedroom if needed), a spacious kitchen with all electrical appliances and has a lovely garden complete with a summer house.
Please DM me if you'd like more information.
Thank you!
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absolute nightmare with our Virgin TV since moving in to Hampden Road at the beginning of June. We had faultless service for approximately two weeks after which we lost the vast majority of our channels, lost our on demand function and our V+ box stopped recording programmes successfully.
We booked an engineer visit to review the situation who attended told us we needed a 'Cabling Engineer' to replace the cables from the street to the property. This was duly booked. My flatmate worked from home for the day only to have the engineer not turn up; upon phoning, we were told Virgin had no record of this being booked on the system!
We were told to send a complaint email which we did. Two weeks later we were assigned a 'Resolutions Manager' to deal with our issue personally. She never answered her phone or returned our calls so a further email was sent to the complaints department detailing our woes. When we were both on holiday two weeks later, my flatmate received a phone call from an irate Virgin engineer who said he was outside the property and nobody was there to give him access. Of course we had not been informed of this appointment and it was a complete surprise to us!
Upon returning from holiday, we sent another long email to Virgin demanding action. 2 weeks passed so last night we phoned their ever-useless call centre once again (30 minute queue to speak to a person). The lady apologised that our complaint had passed their '2 week' aim for attention with such matters (it's been 3 months!) and that an engineer would be booked to come to us on Saturday morning. Given that an engineer has already attended and said we need a 'Cabling Engineer' we requested one of them to visit....surprise surprise, we were told a Cabling Engineer cannot be authorised until an ordinary engineer has looked at the problem again. What a faff!
So the appointment is booked for Saturday morning.....we wait with baited breath to see if they even turn up!
One thing I would say is that we have had great success in not paying for our Virgin service since July now. The people on the ends of the phone at the call centre can give an instant credit of £30, a higher credit needs to go to a team leader. But if you ask it to be escalated that does seem to get done. So my advice to anyone else on this thread would be to refuse to pay for the service until it is satisfactory..!
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Added by 36wcv4zkdyzkc at 11:07 on September 22, 2010
ed replies from the incumbents also tend to make one feel that they are not really listening. You may not be comfortable with it but the response from many people in this forum has been less than favourable and you can read their comments here. I'm pretty sure most of them are not fully paid up members of the Lib Dems although I grant you may find one or two lurking.
I am very much in favour of the promotion of recycling and the reduction in landfill waste and so I am not resistant at all to the changes. However, you must acknowledge that the roll out has been a mess: confused and chaotic with bins not being collected on time or missed altogether. Nor can you agree than we have enhanced the streets with lines of scruffy wheelie bins outside HMOs and flats. Take a walk up Hampden Road - it looks like a wheelie storage facility.
I appreciate these things take time to embed but where is the evidence of learning from the pilot? Can you honestly say that the level of engagement pre-roll out was sufficient (I know the party line is that we all had a leaflet but surely all your years of working in Haringey should have taught you that people don't read stuff from the council- they need face to face conversations in the places they go like the high street)? Do you believe that by annoying people to the level they have been by these changes that they are now more pro-recycling- most people are less bothered by the future of the little children and more by the fact that their overflowing bin is ruining the view? It has taken a high level of engagement from many people to arrange for the type and number of bins they require. Many more are not bothering or more likely assume that they have to have 4 bins outside their house because 'the council says so'.
Finally how will you measure the success of this? Are there agreed targets in the public domain? Will there be sanctions for Veolia if they fail to hit those targets in an agreed time? Who is scrutinising the company and how can we discover their findings? If any of you Lib Dems fancy getting this information instead of shaking your heads more in sorrow than in anger we'd appreciate it. This is a multinational billion pound company. It needs to be held to account. If Labour cabinet members won't do it, isn't it time you did?…