Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hampden Rd development finally on sale to hoi poloi
The development at Hampden Rd is finally on the market to the likes of us. In my experience this means it hasn't sold well overseas (we don't usually get this much of a look in).
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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No surprise perhaps that floor levels have crept up since the outline plans.
Visually, the third incarnation of Woodberry Down is certainly a great improvement on the second, but it’s pretty run of the mill isn’t it?
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Permalink Reply by Julia Richards-Davies on
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The plans for Heartlands will be decided on Monday. There are blocks of 15 storeys and one of 18. Backing onto two storey Victorian terraces. As you say, the consultation showed a maximum of nine and ten storeys, then the plans came in at 15 and 18. No further consultation in between.
http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/Applica...
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Julia, the Council seems minded to pay little attention to local opinion across the borough with all of these new high rise developments. One of our soon to be ex-councillors told me in public over discussions about Hampden that she believed she was in post to represent Labour policy and not the interests of the local residents. I was gobsmacked to hear this but it may go some way to explaining the lack of interest by many (but not all) councillors in supporting local residents to oppose developments.
Whilst it's of little comfort to those who live right by the development site, at least the Heartlands development will be in line with the Council strategy. What made no sense about Hampden is that a development of the scale of the one they approved was forbidden by their very recently approved planning strategy.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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We should all club together and demolish our houses and densify a bit. Building costs are the same as 20 years ago (perhaps less) but the land is eyewateringly expensive now. At least we'd be able to guarantee ourselves right-of-return.
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I'm assuming that such an approach is pretty hard to carry out. If not, I think developers would already be doing it (or maybe they are?). There's probably still lower hanging fruit for some years to come.
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Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on
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This increasingly happens in places like Sydney. e.g. a railway is proposed and as a result the land is re-zoned for medium-rise housing. Whole streets of residents then band together and sell their properties to developers in a single transaction, thereby making huge profits compared to selling their property individually.
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Sounds a lot more straightforward in Sydney then. Re-zoning doesn't happen that simply in the UK.
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Well half of Westpac's mortgages on Sydney property are interest only. It might look like a normal property market....
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Dylan Thomas House was situated at the bottom of Denmark Rd ,to the left of the car park.
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The Mosque has been curiously airbrushed into a generic building in the artist's impressions.
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It’s hard to figure what exactly is the point of planning permission anyway since developers just go ahead and build whatever they want anyway.
We have a build behind us that could feature as a “What’s the Difference” picture comparison for a partially sighted 5 year old.
Quite extraordinary that no-one in Planning Services is even remotely interested - so not sure what the purpose is of their online reporting system either.
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Hugh, can you please share the names of the councillors who passed this development? I objected to the council, the mayor and David Lammy and just received platitudes in response. I'd very much like to know specifically which councillors to avoid at the next council elections. As a democratic discussion about the councillors representing us, hopefully this doesn't break HoL rules...
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