Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Caxton/Mayes Road - Opposing 'poor-doors' and income segregated housing developments in Haringey - please support and object
Despite the support of our MP, Catherine West, we still need more objections to the economically segregated housing proposal in the heart of Wood Green. This site is on the corner of Caxton Road and Mayes Road, next to the Shopping City car park access ramp on the site of the former petrol filling station.
Tenure segregation takes three main forms in this application:
- The housing provision is split between market and ‘affordable’ cores
- Access to the 75 flats is from a tenure segregated deck set above a small courtyard.
- There are two large roof amenity and child play spaces, which are segregated by tenure
Residents and children from market and ‘affordable’ tenures will be able to look at one another across the roofs (17.6 m apart) and across the decks (11.7 m apart), but no physical contact between tenures will be allowed in these areas. This is unnecessary, divisive and provocative.
The developer intends to use London Affordable Rent (LAR), known as Mayor’s rent, plus high service charges to exclude the poor from social and affordable housing at the development. The minimum income requirement for the LAR properties will be between £36,606 and £40,413 per annum. Two full time jobs will be required per household. Presumably they will not be accepting anyone needing benefit support, yet these are supposed to be social rent tenancies.
Attached below are some drawings for the tenure segregated Caxton Road development in Wood Green that is going to the planning committee tomorrow, Thursday 9th July 2020 at 7pm. This is a development which is segregated by design, with tenure segregated play spaces (despite contrary promises from the developer), physical tenure barriers across access decks, and poor doors to the street and round the back of the building. These external poor doors have NOT been mentioned in the Committee Report.
Previous detailed written submissions have demonstrated exactly why the developers' promises about the roof tops cannot be relied upon. They promised Committee members that there would be no segregation, but they published the drawings that you can see here below, whilst telling the Metropolitan Police that 'The design has used the following key principles: Core segregation: the access to one core will give you access only to that block and is not connected to others.'
There is still time to object. Go to http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/Applica...
Then scroll down to "Comment on Application" and follow the steps as indicated. You do not have to give your name and address, although it will have more impact if you feel able to do so. You do not have to live in Haringey and you do not have to write much.
Catherine West MP is amongst objectors to this planning application. Catherine says 50% of all new homes must be affordable, and all affordable rents must be at Council rent levels. Let's get behind out local MP who is speaking out over this issue.
Initial consideration of this planning application will be considered by the Council tomorrow from 7pm where campaigners have bean given time to voice our objections. I have been provided with the following link to view the meeting remotely:
https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId...
Thanks in anticipation of your support.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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Accept it is not ideal
But why is the Council not building affordable Homes. They state they are , but where ?
Understood they now have the Right to borrow funding for Social Housing
I wonder how many get brought up by Landlords to Let to inner Boroughs. Who seem to use Wood Green for their overloads. As many rented properties, seem to be let out to people from inner London . Via Agencies on behalf of inner London Boroughs
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Permalink Reply by Michele on
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Thankyou for bringing this to our attention. I for one did not know about this and I'm horrified. It is discriminatory and treats those in affordable housing as though "they don't matter". Where is the Policy supporting such an approach?
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Our Elected Councilors must have agreed to this Project under planning regulations
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Was this rejected by the Planning Committee last night?
How can we get involved in campaigning against/objecting to this?
I contacted all my councilors yesterday.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Matz on
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Unfortunately, the application was approved by the planning committee who voted 6-3 in favour. Two lay objectors were given just three minutes each to argue against the application. Amendments to the original application were published just a few hours before the meeting, giving objectors little time to scrutinise the updates (some concessions were made on segregation but it remains a core design principle).
The next stage of the campaign begins on Monday, when objectors will refer this scheme to the London Mayor - not to rely on the better judgement of one man, but to continue to raise up arguments and increase awareness about crude segregation plans for new housing schemes.
Local housing activists and campaigns in Haringey tend to organise through the auspices of Haringey Defend Council Housing which also has its own Facebook page. As a visionary once said: “There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again"
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Permalink Reply by Paul Burnham on
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The Caxton Road segregated development in Wood Green went through Haringey's planning sub committee yesterday on a vote of 6-3.There was very little appreciation from committee members of the substance of the concerns about this scheme, or appreciation of the need to resist the nightmare vision for the future under Johnson, Cummings and Jenrick (the two unsackables) which it represents.There was a machine in operation pushing this through, with new drawings uploaded and a new document published just a few hours before the decision.The whole point of a planning consultation is that there is supposed to be time to consider the proposals before they are finalised, but forget it.Some concessions were made on segregation, but not enough to turn round this rotten scheme.The council's strategy on affordable rent housing policy on new developments (where they are buying up homes) also seems in tatters, with severe slippage towards supporting Mayor's rent (£60 pw higher than normal council rents).The next stage for the battle over Caxton Road begins on Monday, when objectors will refer this scheme to the Mayor - not to rely on the better judgement of one man, but to continue to raise up arguments and increase awareness about crude segregation plans for new housing schemes.More on this soon.
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