Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hornsey Depot site redevelopment: is the Hornsey Baths building doomed?
Was just looking at Sainsbury's plans to build a supermarket and 400 residential apartments onto its 'Hornsey Depot' site. These plans have been controversial for many years and, as usual, increased housing requirements and perseverance from developers get through in the end, when no one can argue anymore that something needs doing about the buildings left to rot all these years.
So I'm not even going to bother making my views heard this time, although I'm not particularly looking forward to losing our recycling centre to a car park, or having hundreds more residents driving through the road I live on, not to mention a stupider jam at the railway bridge. There's going to be enough traffic, dust and noise around where I live anyway in the near future, with a new building 50% taller than the current one mushrooming right opposite my house and another one being built round the corner.
But if there is one thing I am really sad about, it's the demolition of the Hornsey Baths building. Am I really seeing clearly on the plan?!? Because it doesn't say anywhere "We're going to destroy the old Hornsey Baths". These have been quietly standing there in recent years, as if the intention was to keep them, so I'm shocked to see that they'll be taken down! Aren't they part of the High Street Conservation area – or does this not mean anything? And take them down for what? to enlarge the road leading to the car park and build a modern Sainsbury café? Can't they be used to give that café a bit of character?
More info on http://hornseydepot.com/masterplan/
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Permalink Reply by Isabelle on
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Oh I get it... the "Baths", even though part of the conservation area, are now considered as "Council offices" – more precisely: derelict/unused offices. So it's ok to scrap them then.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I seem to remember seeing on here that the facade of the Baths was to be incorporated into the new schems.
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But... is it? According to the plans and the above perspective drawing (taken from their website) the baths (or unusued council offices, as they're now called) don't appear anymore. Or is it just me being blind?
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Permalink Reply by tania on
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What the hell are they planning now, oh yes hell! I remember now, has to be on Earth as well. Very good point Isabelle, that area could be beautiful but if planning and profit priority get their way it will be the usual vacuous space. No you do not have to put up with it, stand up and protect what character the area has left and yes improve the areas that have become derelict so that they can be put to use for the community,
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