Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Wards Corner alternative plan launched - planning meeting looms
The Wards Corner Community Coalition has now lodged its own plan with the Council’s Planning Department.
The wordpress website is now ‘live’ and all documents relating to the community plan can be viewed here. See drawings of how the buildings can come back to life, and details of proposed management structures and funding.
Meanwhile more nifty moves from the council friends of Grainger the developer shows that they are more determined than ever to push through the wholesale demolition of the area. They have added an extra Labour Party member to the planning committee, so now there will be six Labour to four Liberal Democrat. Last time, with nine on the committee, it decided by five votes to four, to reject the Grainger plan.
The meeting on the new railroaded-through Grainger plan is on Monday 25th June, 7pm, at the Civic Centre in Wood Green. It's not too late to add your comments about the plan, they will be circulated to the members of the committee. See here, click Comment on Application. Reading through others' comments will give you some idea of the issues involved.
Tags for Forum Posts: grainger, planning, seven sisters, ward's corner
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Permalink Reply by Neville Collins on
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@ Pam, I doubt that 'city types' (I hate that term) will want to move into this development. Grainger will struggle to market the place (Just like what happened to Hale Village in Tottenham Hale). As soon as they say where it is, many potential flat owners will be put off. The public anger post-riots and the ongoing political uncertainty will see to that. This whole situation exposes Haringey council's contradictory approach to planning policy. In some places they have been willing to improve the conservation and repair of buildings (There are good examples further up the High Road near Bruce Grove). So why are they so desperate to destroy Ward's Corner? One of the few good things about living in Tottenham is THAT building. Shouldn't we doing anything in our power to keep the family of traders in the market together? Make no mistake about this, nobody will ever trust the council again on ANY issue....
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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One long-standing councillor is on record as saying years ago that she couldn't wait for Wards Corner to be razed to the ground. Probably few on the council are as determined as that, but a handful of councillors do seem to have a disproportionate amount of power. Cllr Stanton argues on the later thread here that they all make up their minds based on the facts placed before them, and that there is no whipping at a planning committee, but it is notable how the party lines have been held throughout, apart from one aberrant vote which was reversed on Monday despite being shown an almost-identical plan. I would like to know the opinions of each of the 57 LBH councillors. I don't know the history pre-2004 about the council's relationship with the Wards store and the waves of change at the market. Clearly something drastic has happened in the murky past to create such a poisonous present.
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Permalink Reply by clyde on
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Grainger does not care if it sells the flats or not. It has a rental company and is a major rental company in Germany. Plus it has the other developments like Apex House for even more profit.
Before Grainger there was District and Provincial. They were early partners before selling off their site units as the plan failed as the owner did not want to sell so land assembly was a problem. Hence the site was moved into the NDC regeneration area in order to pave the way for the site destruction by under mining the protection of the listed building and conservation area. So there was always council and council support for destruction even though the economic stats show the area is improving at a faster rate than the council's bruce grove save the building area.
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