Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
St Ann's Hospital Development - Consultation Report
Following this summer's consultation on the future of the St Ann's Hospital site, Harringay Online has secured a copy of the consultation report.
Whilst I haven't had the opportunity to read it yet, on a skim read, some of the messages which came out were:
- Where possible, additional health services should be added to the existing services and sufficient land should be retained to provide enough capacity to accommodate future health services.
- Other possible uses for the site can include some housing, public open space, small retail and community facilities which benefit local people.
- High quality design was felt to be important for both the health and non-health developments.
- Where possible, the buildings that are locally listed as having architectural merit, particularly some of the Victorian buildings, should be retained.
- The scale of development should reflect the character of the surrounding area and the heights of buildings should be in keeping with heights of buildings in the surrounding area
- If housing is developed, a gated community approach should be avoided.
- The site should be made more open and permeable by the creation of additional vehicular and pedestrian access.
- Where necessary, local infrastructures such as transport links to St Ann’s, schools and community facilities should be improved to cope with the proposed development.
The full consultation report together with its appendix is attached.
The next stage in the process is for the Trust to undertake a number of formal studies to inform the planning work, including studies on transport infrastructure, historic buildings, ecological surveys and an environmental impact and an equality impact assessment.
The trust say that there will be further opportunities for local people to continue to give their views during the next stage of the process. They hope to submit the outline planning application to Haringey Council early in 2013 and this will be followed by a statutory public consultation.
If all goes according to plan the redevelopment of the site is likely to start in late 2013 / early 2014 and take around two years to complete.
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Permalink Reply by Louisa Spivack on
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I always loved the hospital site even though it's very outdated. It seems to be how local cottage hospitals must have looked a century ago.
It's important that we retain some form of health care there, as we don't have any other hospitals in borough which is unusual for a London borough.
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I'd be really concerned about the preservation of trees on the site during redevelopment: I understand there are lots of rare and interesting ones. I lived opposite the old convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Stoke Newington (Bouverie Road) while it was being redeveloped - despite many promises to preserve mature trees on the site, most of them were trashed in a really appalling way.
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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its great that they mention preserving or building on existing services then, as old as the site maybe- they also have some exceptionally good services available for local people
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I haven't read it through completely, but the proposals seem to correspond to those outlined in the consultation document earlier this year - in fact the diagram on pages 6 and 7 appears to be identical to the earlier one.
That scale diagram shows about two-thirds of the site to be given up to housing, and doesn't leave much room for further health services to be brought to St Ann's in future.
One extra service that might well fit in on this site would be the new renal care unit, which I see (from the final Tottenham Journal, page 5) is currently planned by the Royal Free for Hale Village, about a mile and half away. Surely it would make more sense to build it where there are other nurses and health technicians?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Bob, can I suggest you write to the Royal Free and ask them for their reasoning?
What I've heard - second or third hand - is that locating the Renal Unit at Tottenham Hale "Village" gives better transport links for patients from further afield. This may be accurate for people coming by tube, overground, or patient transport. (If by car, I'm unsure where they'd park.)
But I hadn't heard that transport was a problem at St Ann's. For example the Moorfields, St Ann's Eye Unit seems to have a wide catchment. (To declare an interest, I attend it.)
At Hale "Village", the original plan was for a GP health centre. So I do hope that in making this decision the Royal Free considered only the needs of renal patients. And that filling up a space on the Hale "Village" development played no part.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Thanks for the suggestion, Alan.
After finding out a little more about the Royal Free's excellent renal services - including the new kidney care centre at Edgware, I managed to compose a letter to David Sloman, the Chief Executive. I'll post it here if you like, together with the reply when it comes. Briefly, I wrote 'It is excellent news for Haringey that you are opening such a unit in the borough....The only question in my mind concerns the exact location planned for your unit...'.
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Many thanks, Bob.
Please do post your letter/email to David Sloman and his reply. Would you also please copy it to Haringey councillors. (Not every councillor keeps an eye on HoL ;-)
To save you looking them up, here's the list. (I'm told that one has left Haringey; but remains a councillor until till May 2014.) I've put wards closest to St Ann's and Tottenham Hale in bold.
gina.adamou@haringey.gov.uk; karen.alexander2@haringey.gov.uk ; rachel.allison@haringey.gov.uk; kaushika.amin@haringey.gov.uk; dhiren.basu@haringey.gov.uk; david.beacham@haringey.gov.uk; john.bevan@haringey.gov.uk; jonathan.bloch@haringey.gov.uk; zena.brabazon@haringey.gov.uk; david.browne@virgin.net; ed.butcher@haringey.gov.uk; nilgun.canver@haringey.gov.uk; joanna.christophides@haringey.gov.uk; matt.cooke@haringey.gov.uk; matt.davies@haringey.gov.uk; ali.demirci@haringey.gov.uk; isidoros.diakides@haringey.gov.uk; dilek.dogus@haringey.gov.uk; pat.egan@haringey.gov.uk; joseph.ejiofor@haringey.gov.uk; gail.engert@haringey.gov.uk; sophie.erskine@haringey.gov.uk; pauline.gibson@haringey.gov.uk; joe.goldberg@haringey.gov.uk; robert.gorrie@haringey.gov.uk; eddie.griffith@haringey.gov.uk; bob.hare@haringey.gov.uk; jim.jenks@haringey.gov.uk; rahman.khan@haringey.gov.uk; claire.kober@haringey.gov.uk; toni.mallett@haringey.gov.uk; stuart.mcnamara@haringey.gov.uk; george.meehan@haringey.gov.uk; martin.newton@haringey.gov.uk; sheila.peacock@haringey.gov.uk; katherine.reece@haringey.gov.uk; errol.reid@haringey.gov.uk; lorna.reith@haringey.gov.uk; reg.rice@haringey.gov.uk; david.schmitz@haringey.gov.uk; nigel.scott@haringey.gov.uk; juliet.solomon@haringey.gov.uk; alan.stanton@blueyonder.co.uk; anne.stennett@haringey.gov.uk; james.stewart@haringey.gov.uk; paul.strang@haringey.gov.uk; alan.strickland@haringey.gov.uk; bernice.vanier@haringey.gov.uk; ann.waters@haringey.gov.uk; bernice.vanier@haringey.gov.uk; richard.watson@haringey.gov.uk; lyn.weber@haringey.gov.uk; monica.whyte@haringey.gov.uk; neil.williams@haringey.gov.uk; richard.wilson@haringey.gov.uk; david.winskill@haringey.gov.uk
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