Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Council announces £300,000 for 'traffic calming" in 'The Gardens' area of Harringay
The following is a press release from Haringey Council:
A local community will help redesign the street layout of their neighbourhood through a Haringey Council project that will see the area transformed.
The Gardens area off Green Lanes in Harringay has been chosen for the Community Streets neighbourhood improvement project.
The project will look at several key elements including innovative traffic calming design, reclaiming space, designing the streets for people rather than traffic, and promoting healthy and environmentally friendly transport modes.
The first year of the two year project will involve regular meetings with the local community to agree proposals and plan the street works which will begin next year.
The council has asked Sustrans, the UK’s leading transport charity who completed the successful Turnpike Lane DIY Streets project last year, to work with them again to get the community involved.
Haringey's Cabinet Member for the Environment, Cllr Nilgun Canver, said:
"Community engagement is key to the success of this project. It will give the initiative back to residents and allow them to create a space suitable for people to meet, socialise, and play. I hope everyone will get involved and take this opportunity to help design their own neighbourhood."
The project is funded by the council and TfL and will focus on the Gardens neighbourhood, including: Chesterfield, Cleveland, Devon, Doncaster, Essex, Grafton, Kimberley, Portland, Rutland, Stanhope, Sussex and Warwick Gardens.
These roads were chosen because they are near to Green Lanes and will complement the upcoming town centre improvements.
The project will be completed by July 2014.
A community engagement event for Community Streets will take place on the 29 September in Grafton/Doncaster Gardens and will be linked with the Garden Residents' Association 10 year anniversary celebrations for their Community Garden.
Project newsletter attached.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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£300k seems to be a sizeable sum. Though I'm certain this is an excellent and worthwhile scheme.
I'd be very interested to learn which areas of Haringey were initially considered and then short-listed for such a scheme. Also what information was collected for the short-listed locations; the criteria on which short-listing and the final decision was made; and who made the selections and final decision.
Anyone have some reliable information?
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by Karen Alexander on
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Do you want to ask the council these questions or shall I? Agree its an excellent and worthy scheme and well done to GRA but agree with the question "what about the Ladder?"
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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If either of you do, and I would encourage you to do so, I would ask that you come back to this forum to offer what ever feedback you might recieve. Thanks!
If this is something that some Ladder resident participation would benfit from then I would be happy to pitch in.
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The question I fairly explicitly posed, Karen, was: "What about the rest of the Borough?"
We both live in the wards we represent and know the problems and opportunities. So I'm not in any way downplaying the traffic problems of Harringay ward. But I also assume that before an externally funded scheme of this size was agreed there would have been a range of locations considered across the whole of Haringey with some reasonably objective criteria set and met.
With that reservation I'm more than happy for you to ask for the information. Can I suggest you ask via the website WhatDoTheyKnow.com so anyone can view the full reply. We should all try encouraging Haringey to make those first anxious steps into open Government.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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Yup...I don't know on what basis funds get allocated to "do up" neighbourhoods. I'd liek some attention to be paid to my SIDEWALKS which are falling apart. And teh street signs are rusty and illegible. These should be subject to routine maintainace. When will we get the Plan fro improving the residential streets in Bruce Grove?
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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Traffic calming? Is there any traffic to calm in the gardens? Otherwise great news - well done GRA.
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Hi
Ladder Roads have speed humps. The Gardens has nothing and its like a race track around here sometimes.
There are cars doing up to 60 mph at times and handbrake turning their cars at the bottom of each gardens road.
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Permalink Reply by Frederick Guy on
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Ladder roads need speed bumps because of the one-way system, which makes each of them into a rat run.
I have nothing against speed bumps per se, but if the Gardens have this opportunity shouldn't the aim be a little higher, as regards use of the streets for people rather than cars? See, for instance: http://www.homezones.org/links.html
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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Agreed.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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The Gardens were recently given a vote on a Gardens traffic issue which has turned into something of a local hotcake. The options offered to residents were to pay to maintain the rising bollard or block off the Warwick Road / St Ann's Road entrance. The vote was to block it off. This angered the traders of Green Lanes who have forced a re-vote. That's happening now.
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Hugh. Why has it angered the GL Traders and how come they can force a re-vote? Unless there was a problem with the first vote it should stand no? Seems a bit like 'You did not get the outcome you wanted so you will keep voting until you do', or am I being unfair?
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