Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Costa del Hampden
With summers like this and apartments soon available to rent within your own ward with grand views of Ally Pally, Epping Forest, the Olympic statium & Thames river why not holiday on the Costa del Hampden. OK, not a beach but a very fine railway line ... when it works.
Pack those binoculars folks for a little train spotting, chill the Tottenham ales, plan for that staycation coming to an N8 road near you;
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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New Forest, or Epping?.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Bois de Boulogne eventually
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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And to augment the Harringay/Haringey tour of tall architecture, can I offer you another view - not from Hornsey Station but its southern neighbour.
Walking along the Harringay station footbridge towards Wightman Road, pause and marvel at an addition to the view down Burgoyne Road. Attractively framed by trees, the replacement for Apex House now sticks up like a sore digit.
Pamish calls it Fagpacket Tower. But it's even worse than that. I say it joins a recent winner of the Carbuncle Cup, the Walkie-Talkie in the City. Yes -- it's the Giving Haringey the Finger Tower.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Two fingers, that is the two lift shafts. Yes it really will be that tall. There is only one staircase, something that should be unthinkable post Grenfell.
It's a bung to developer Grainger in exchange for them taking on the impossible job of doing the Wards Corner site. Except that latter is looking less and less likely with every passing week. They were gifted the land, 0.47hectares of space above the tube station, for £3.4million. We don't think Grainger wants to do Wards, it's going to be unmanageable, and now they can see their lovely cash cow rising by ten feet a day, why would they bother with that other space? They own all the freeholds on the side roads so will make a nice packet from selling on the houses and working on their other rent-to-buy schemes. Fagpacket Tower will be 23 storeys. We did try, all possible objections inc the Mayor, but they didn't care.
Part of the architects' proud pitch at their 'consultation' meetings, was a whole load of slides showing just how far away the tower would be visible from, to back up its mad designation as a Landmark. Look, here's the view from Manor House/Spurs/Stamford Hill/Ally Pally etc. Yes really, the intrusion was meant to be something positive.
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I passed that carbuncle on the bus yesterday and was horrified. The height, in that environment: madness.
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Enjoy the view of Ally Pally whilst it lasts. Hampden may have a 15 storey neighbour.
http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/16356791.haringey-cultural...
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Well spotted. That won't spoil the view thankfully from the 2nd photo in this post but it will look odd at the Turnpike Lane junction with Wightman. Surprised Hugh hasn't been jumping up & down about this. Maybe you should put up a separate post about this Nick.
Pitty the lack of support to charities & community organisations has meant many of them will struggle to survive & consequently organistions like the West Indian Cultural Centre falling into the embrace of developers.Get ready for towers popping up all over the borough in shambolic fashion. At least in Hackney their developments have a more considered & holistic approach when it comes to planning.
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Permalink Reply by Jon C on
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"Hackney developments have a more considered & holistic approach". Apart from the vandalism, sorry, development of the corner of Seven Sisters Road and Green Lanes at Manor House, where two of the few remaining Victorian/Edwardian villas are being demolished for...
"a 5 to 9 storey building with lower ground floor and partial basement to provide 140 room hotel (Use Class C1); 35 room hostel (sui generis use); 371m2 retail unit (Use Class A1) (fronting Green Lanes), 261 m2 restaurant (Use Class A3) and 74m2 drinking establishment (Use Class A4) (on top floor); hard and soft landscaping, amended accesses from Seven Sisters Road, cycle and car parking."
https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/planning/planning-applications...
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There are plans for SEVENTEEN more towers at Tottenham Hale. One of them 38 storeys, the rest little titches at 15 to 20 storeys. Forget ever getting on the tube in the morning, or seeing any sky.
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That's crazy Pam! Apart from zillions of towers what else is being done for that area. What are the council/developers trying to do, apart from more housing, or is that it? Surely all those towers will end up being a massive blight on the Lea Valley landscape. There's lots of ugly towers going up around the so called Olympic village as well. Maybe by 2030 it'll be one long row of towers from Canary Wharf all the way up to the M25 along the Lea Valley ... with a monorail out to Stevenage
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