Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The desperate shortage of betting shops in Tottenham: Paddy Power to the rescue
Body Music at 261A High Road, Tottenham is to be turned into a betting shop.
The Application is in with the council here. There are two other Applications in currently to meet the market demand in Wood Green and cope with the shortage there.
It is pointless for anyone to object as the previous government's Gambling Act made the issuance of Licences little more than a formality.
The council's licensing officer, obliged to work to the Gambling Act, appears to have already pre-dismissed at least one Objector ...
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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We look forward to hearing from our esteemed MP D Lammy whose actions in his earlier career as Culture Secretary helped make betting shops so easy to set up. Tottenham would make a brilliant site for a huge casino, why stop at the six betting shops here already? There are plenty of rows of old shops that could be knocked down to make way for it.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Willmsen on
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Ah, thank God for that, I was having to resort to burning twenty pound notes. Marvellous graphic btw. Would the local council be so keen on crack dens I wonder, not so very different in terms of their socially destructive effects.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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CRACK DENS Well, Mr Andrew Lyman (public affairs spokesman for William Hill) last month wrote that "Betting shops add to the vibrancy of the high street and many are small communities in themselves" (emphasis added) ... interesting he chooses to use planning terminology.
Crack dens might also add to vibrancy (what does that word mean? probably anything you want it to mean) and I'm sure they are also small communities. Members of the crack den community probably share things in common. New research is linking gambling addiction to low dopamine levels in the brain. (BTW, not my graphic, just retailed on).
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Yeah William Hill himself was actually a big fan of Jane Jacob's work, before he became a crack addict and went slightly off the rails that is. Paddy Power was never seen in public without his copy of The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel tucked under his arm, while Jimmy 'Jim' Ladbroke was more convinced by Le Courbusier's modernist notion of the city as a machine for living.
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