Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Plans to cut down 24 trees & build on publicly owned green spaces
The patch of undeveloped green space on Belmont Road, next to Downhills Park, on what was the old railway line is set to be built on. A consultation (I don’t think it was a full planning application) by the council has just closed. It’s publicly owned land & they want to cut down 24 trees here. It’s a prime spot for some tree planting or maybe an allotment site, just not more bloody concrete.
More information & petition here https://www.change.org/p/petition-against-the-proposed-development-...
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Does anyone have any links to Extinction Rebellion? They've proved themselves happy to live in trees to protect them in the past, and I think its worth talking to them about this before we have another barren Mcdonalds where woodland should be.
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There’s a demo at McDonald’s Green Lanes this Sat. There you could meet many concerned residents that are trying to protect the trees around Haringey
I will come to take pictures, as usual
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Tree protectors are not necessarily XR. Some of them are. I know, as I’m doing a photo doc about them.
I leave nearby and never heard of any consultation, did you?
TP seem quite busy in Green Lanes and Oakfield Rd at the moment, as far as I know.
Do you have any link to see the planning and all the docs, please?
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I think this might be helpful -
https://ivattway.commonplace.is/proposals/a-summary-of-our-proposal...
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They tell us the trees they will plant amongst the building site they are going to create but haven't spoken about the trees they are cutting down in the first place—greenwash nonsense.
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Thank you, I'll go through it.
Are you coming this Sat? We all should meet and think about something. I passed by yesterday. Lovely wild vegetation...
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Just to register another side to this debate... there's huge pressure on social housing and council budgets, and a lack of viable council-owned land in Haringey. That area is very well served by parks (Belmont, downhils, Russell, lordship...) and if guarantees on tree planting can be secured then I'm inclined to support the proposal. If we object to the thought of the poor and vulnerable being forced out of town then we need to be willing to let councils build on the unused land that they own.
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Sure. As a disabled person myself, I can't help but agree. Nevertheless, there are thousands of ways to do it without felling trees and damaging our environment. What I want to understand is why/if those solutions were ever considered. Because sadly, even if it is most of the time very feasible to design them, they are not even taken into consideration. It is just a question of intellectual laziness mixed with an exclusively profit-focused mentality by the construction companies - together with the inability of the council to tell them precisely what they are not allowed to do - that routinely causes ecocides everywhere. Design projects can be easily adapted to real people's daily needs. If there are already trees on the site and designers are supposed to plan community areas and gardens, they must plan to build AROUND the already existing mature trees and potential garden that we already have, not to destroy everything and plant small saples anew. As easy as that.
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