Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Highgate makes formal bid for independence
Haringey Council is today circulating a notice of the borough's first application to establish a neighbourhood forum. Little surprise perhaps that it's Highgate.
It'll be interesting to see what sort of dust-up there might be with their Muswell Hill neighbours about the two woods which, despite their names, I've always thought of as being rather more Muswell Hill than Highgate. Will we have our very own Senkaku / Diaoyu dispute? Will we see HMS St James moored alongside Jackson's Lane Arts Centre?
Below is the email circulated by Haringey Council:
A Highgate community group has applied to Haringey and Camden Councils to be formally designated as a neighbourhood forum and to set the boundary of theirneighbourhood area, in accordance with Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012.
Both Councils are now seeking views and comments on the applications from residents and other interested stakeholders. The consultation begins on the 20th September and all responses must be submitted by Friday 2nd November 2012.The applications show the area in which the group intends to use the new neighbourhood planning powers, and the Forum who propose to write a Neighbourhood Plan arising from the Localism Act and the supporting neighbourhood planning regulations. Representations should consider whether the neighbourhood area and the neighbourhood forum are appropriate to be designated.
The applications are available to view at River Park House (6th Floor), Wood Green, N22 8HQ, the Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE, between 9am and 5pm, local libraries and online at www.haringey.gov.uk/neighbourhood_planning or www.camden.gov.uk/neighbourhoodplanning
Responses should be made by email to ldf@haringey.gov.uk or in writing to LDF Team, London Borough of Haringey, River Park House (6th Floor), Wood Green, N22 8HQ.
Please note this consultation does not relate to a neighbourhood plan.
For further details please contact the LDF team at 020 8489 1479 or email ldf@haringey.gov.uk
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Middleton on
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On postcode frontier lines Highgate Wood is about 2/3 N6 and 1/3 N10. Queens Wood is about 3/4 N10 and 1/4 N6. Frontier skirmishes could be expected in the Woods. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=528536&y=188582&z=0&am...
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Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on
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The Pavilion Cafe actually has an N10 postcode, so they'll be denying MH's forces of food and drink supplies (or at least decent carrot cake). They're clever chaps, those Highateonians.
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So, they annexe the choicest and greenest chunks of Camden and Haringey, but do not venture into the N6 strip of Islington, ?SW of Hornsey Lane. Scholastically speaking,they'll guard their privates of Highgate School & Channing 5-18, while avoiding like the plague the riff-raff of St Aloysius College, Ashmount Primary and Highgate Wood School. Will I need a special Highgate Visa to take the W5 homewards from the Whittington, or will they divert this common folks' wagon permanently via St John's Way & Hornsey Rise?
As DHL wrote: "How nice it is to be superior!"
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Nice one Hugh. I'd never seen the DHL folks as a parcel of poets.
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Permalink Reply by David Barry on
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I am with OAE on this.
It is obviously absurd that Highgate Hill with St Josephs Church being a local landmark, with the attached Catholic Primary School is to be NOT in Highgate, while a large chunk of what is obviously really Muswell Hill is to be regarded as in Highgate. It is also absurd that St Aloysious should be excluded when it is on the Highgate side of the A1 while Stanhope Road opposite my house is (but of course I am not). However given the recent track record of the Highgate Society for which the Forum is a front, I find myself coming all over Groucho Marx.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Postcodes may do it for today's gangs as they stake out their territories, but I have no truck with them as arbiters of neighbourhood boundaries. We in Harringay should be more aware of that that most.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Bon chance to the Highgate Freedom Fighters secessionists. They'll need it, because it can only be a matter of time before the Empire Strikes Back.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Passport to Pimlico springs to mind
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A local rebel renegade resistance-fighter resident has sent me the following link:
The accompanying Samizdat included:
a legal framework put in place in 2007 ‘The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007’ and local community groups can get funding for such a campaign to create their own separate/new local council. It was used to create some 200 new councils in England and has few (5) current campaigns already on their way in London.
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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Thanks for the create-a-council link Clive. Looks really interesting, perhaps thats what we should do here instead of a new RA. Could then at least sort out the bins...
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Worth having a look at this conversation from January, Ant. The downside with neighbourhood forums is that they're perhaps even more susceptible to capture by the civic core. Involvement of CC is good, control by them tends, in my opinion, to be much less so.
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