Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Allison Road N8 Loft Conversion (No 4 in 4 weeks) - First World Problem
Today scaffolding is going up on a property in Allison Road* for the 4th Loft conversion in as many weeks: Literally.
It's good that people have the money and like the area enough to invest in their properties.
But as a neighbour it would be pleasant to be informed.
Skips rubbish the pavment, along with builder's vans taking up parking spaces. Noise from the building works is significant and workers seem only able to communicate to each other by shouting. Building equipment is left overnight on the street.
The old inhabitants of the street have died off, and a new more transient urban population has moved in losing a communal feeling. I miss it.
A shame: but hopefully community will return. I will wait for the note through the letter box letting us all know about the next inevitable conversion.
Thanks for reading.
(Just stopped builder person sawing off a big branch of a tree to get the scaffolding truck parked!)
*House number redacted as per our terms and conditions
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Road tax hasn’t been ring fenced to highways since the 1930s. It's been part of general taxation for decades.
If you get your parking free can I have a £57 rebate on my Council Tax for not parking on the road please?
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on
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I think that's a full house.
I don't blame those cyclists not paying road tax, it was abolished in the 1930s. I guess cyclists could fill in the VED documentation, it seems like a lot of administration given that the zero-emissions band is £0 (electric cars must really grind your gears).
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What a retrograde attitude.
What planet do you live on and what do you want your neighbourhood to look like?
This city has so much public transport provision that owning a car isn't all that necessary.
Okay for some things it is handy. But there are the car clubs that allow use without penalties of owning one.
Just THINK of what will happen in the coming years when fuel prices will sky rocket, car pollution that is already killing us, scarce space for housing and green spaces parks is given over to bigger roads and carparks.
What a retrograde attitude.
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Yes, even a highly polluting car is only £170 per annum and a lot will be paying around £57 and under. For permission to store your private property on public land this is a bargain.
Paying around 60p per square foot per annum to rent this space is many times lower than market value.
Daily parking permits are a bit more realistic in terms of cost but I don't really understand why those who don't own a car should subsidise those who do. Two weeks of daily permits costing the same as an annual permit isn't really in line with the borough's proposals of encouraging more environmentally friendly travel.
I drive but, like the majority of residents, I don't own a car.
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It seems like a lot of people don't get permits for parking big lorries and trucks for the day. I had a stand up argument with a workman doing something next door to us because I got home to find he'd blocked 1/2 the (massive) bay with assorted broken appliances. I thought 'sod this' moved a toaster oven and parked outside my house. Much shouting ensued - he seemed to think a scratch off visitor permit allowed him to requisition four spaces all day. Slightly better than the people over the road who stayed up all night sanding and hammering for weeks and abandoned an unwanted appliance or two outside the council block over the road almost nightly. We just started putting the appliances back in their front garden after a while, they'd appear over the road again the next day, and so on...
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WHAT?? THREAD DRIFT KLAXON.
This thread is about loft conversions. Beefs/rants about parking/permits belong in a separate discussion say I.
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And where the scaffolding over the roof has plastic shielding along the sides, expect to be kept awake overnight by the flapping plastic when there's high winds like this night.
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Back on the original topic, the planning permission usually has specific times on when building work audible beyond the boundary can be carried out. It tends to be 8.00am - 6.00pm Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 1.00pm Saturday and not at all on Sundays and Bank Holidays which is governed by the Control of Pollution Act 1974.
You can search here http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/Applica... for the specific works and look at the decision notice but they all tend to be the same.
Building equipment or materials shouldn't be left in the street (although I think it may be possible to apply for permission to store building materials on the street, definitely not on the pavement though). I don't know how this is enforced though, the sensible option would be through the parking attendants.
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