Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Why has work stopped on the West Green Road Council Housing scheme?
Given that we have both a housing and cost of living crisis (and further that Haringey is an unaffordable area to anyone on average or local authority wages) it seems mad to me that a scheme to provide 46 Council homes 'soon' has been stopped half built for half a year. The reinforced concrete framework went up last year plus a few bits of insulation and brickwork but since then nothing. This is a scheme between Haringey Council and the Paul Simon Magic group but perhaps the magic has gone. Does anyone know why?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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AND that attachment, though buried, was the version considered fit for public consumption.
We have no idea the extent to which it was re-written. The date hints at the time it took to re-write the full version. On page 11, the "date" is shown literally as "December 2022", which I am not convinced is a legal date. After the dubious date, the report for public consumption was slipped out quietly in mid-April 2023: at least three months later.
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No sign that the old Duke of Edinburgh pub will be converted into the once proposed community centre.
No sign also, that the promised Community Arts Centre at Hornsey Town Hall will be delivered. Alongside gushing PR, the HTH was sold off cheaply.
The council were warned of the need to have legally enforceable terms and conditions: there appear to have been none. If the council's legal service is not wholly incompetent, then is not the implication, that someone directed legal not to include any T&Cs that were legally enforceable?
The evidence suggests that the council is weak or is far too cosy with developers.
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Additional support – this is not the first time that—following poor judgment—Haringey Council felt obliged to spend additional tax monies.
Those with longer memories may recall the ChickenTown fiasco where our local government funded a restaurant start-up (?!). From the beginning, it had disaster written all over it. When it failed, the council tossed £40,000 of "resilience" funding their way, on top of the six figure sum that had already been flash-fried.
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