Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Final planning application for St Ann's Hospital site (with visualisations)
Visualisation across the peace garden
Catalyst Housing have just submitted their hybrid planning application for St Ann's (Google tells me that a hybrid planning application seeks outline planning permission for one part and full planning permission for another part of the same site"). Below is the phasing plan.
The scheme comprises "a residential- led development comprising the demolition of the majority of the existing buildings on the Site and construction of up to 995 new homes and up to 5,000 (gross external area) of non-residential floorspace", (I assume the undefined 5,000 is 5,000 sq ft).
It is divided into four phases: Phases 1a (Detailed Component) and Phases 1b, 2 and 3 (Outline Component).
Below is the tenure and accommodation type mix for Phase 1a.
and the equivalent for the other phases.
The buildings marked red in the demolition plan indicate which buildings will be demolished.
The full planning application - and there is a lot of it - is on Haringey's planning Portal.
View of the water tower and residential street
View of the new pathway to the southwestern corner towards Green Lanes, overlooked by a commercial unit
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Permalink Reply by Dan Smeeton on
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That's a lot of extra people (3000? assuming an average of 3 for each home). London is already full!
I hope the council and NHS are making provision for the extra volume of services needed and transport infrastructure (is that why Chestnuts School is undergoing an apparent loft conversion?). One solution might be to open up the tunnel from the gardens to the arena to allow cycles and pedestrians to pass through en route to the Arena, Finsbury Park and the transport hubs of Manor House and Finsbury Park station.
The picture does look nice and the development will invariably increase the value of terraced housing surrounding St Anns (being a more desireable contrast to the development) so there will be minor compensation for locals for the increased population density.
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Catalyst are opening up a pedestrian and cyclist route at the lower left corner of the site into Stanhope and Warwick Gardens, which will create direct route to Green Lanes & Harringay Green Lanes station, and then up to Manor House etc.
Historically there was at least one arch under the railway line that people could go through from the St Ann's site to get to the south of the railway line (the hospital used to have an exercise ground there), though I'm not sure if anyone has managed to locate it recently.
Reopening the arch on Doncaster Gardens would be a bad idea as it would destroy the Community Garden - it also used to be a popular escape route for muggers who'd stolen money at the Sainsbury's cash machine.
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There's some interesting info on the local Bat population in one of the documents:
"Commuting and Foraging Bats. Four species of bat were recorded during the dusk emergence and dawn re- entry surveys: noctule, common pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle and Nathusius’ pipistrelle. Commuting and foraging activity was recorded during the survey period; this was predominantly over the areas of grassland and scattered trees located between the hospital buildings, with intermittent foraging activity also recorded over the adjacent residential gardens located to the west of the site, along the trees lining St Ann’s Road to the north, and along St Ann’s Wood located to the south. Bats were observed entering and exiting the survey area by commuting along the boundary trees. The treeline to the west of the site and St Ann’s Wood SINC (Site of Importance for Nature Conservation) to the south are key commuting and foraging habitats for the bats at site level.”
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Hi,
Maybe I am wrong (I would love to be). But if they talk about nesting bats, it is because it is illegal to fell trees and vegetation with nesting bats, and they are already looking for excuses to fell them anyway.
So, I do not get why trees and vegetation, plus the number of green areas changes and fellings, are not indicated.
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