Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New tenants found for Coliseum Shop after Campaign Blocks Bookies
After almost a year, it seems that HoL's campaign to prevent yet another bookie opening on our High street has resulted in a long-lasting success.
Last summer we heard that the lease for the Coliseum site, at the St Ann’s Road junction, was due to be signed over to Cypriot bookies Tipco. KFH who held the lease but had never occupied the property, had experienced trouble finding a buyer for the lease and were delighted to find takers in Tipco.
I was less pleased and figuring that with KFH's customer facing business they may be amenable to working with the community to find another solution, I suggested to Rob Tao of Harringay Traders that an approach be made to KFH.
Rob picked up the baton and passed things over to the GLA team involved on the Green Lanes regeneration project. As summer progressed and turned to Autumn, all seemed to be going well. GLA supported plans had been hatched to let the shop and use it as a community pop-up space for an interim period.
Then out of the blue, the Haringey Council licensing team received an application for a licence to operate the premises as a betting shop.
That's when I launched HoL's campaign to persuade KFH to change their tack and the community made their concerns clear. After a week or so, I got a call from KFH expressing their discomfort at our campaign and suggesting a way may be open.
Once again I passed matters over to Rob and he worked with KFH to try and broker a solution. In the meantime, the residents who live above the premises also got involved.
It seems that KFH listened to community concerns. Credit is due to them for this.
I'm pleased to be able to announce that a new tenant has now been confirmed. After long negotiations with an ice cream and desert shop, it has been confirmed that solicitors Ersan & Co. have taken a lease on the premises. The firm is currently based near Turnpike Lane.
Whilst I can think of a number of things I'd have preferred to a solicitor in that spot, I'm delighted to have them rather than a bookie and welcome them to the high street.
Tags for Forum Posts: betting, gambling, kfh, kinleigh folkard hayward
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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Hugh - You're right, I was being _very_ tongue-in-cheek about "the next Crouch End or Stokie". I don't want us ever to lose the wonderful and great value-for-money greengrocers and other businesses along Green Lanes. Variety is the spice of life, as they say!
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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Sorry, "variety"? On that stretch of Green Lanes there are: betting shops, green grocers, tacky jewellers, about a million Turkish restaurants and a few bakeries that all sell the same thing. "Variety"? There are loads of discussions on HoL about the distinct lack of variety on GL. It's a myth!
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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I always wonder just who buys that ugly yellow jewellery, and the scary cakes with dolls bodies planted in them to look like toilet roll covers. Why so many of them? Surely they are a front?
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Permalink Reply by Takaokagiejin on
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Harringay is the London hub of the exiled Kurdish community. Maybe the jewellery and cakes are not to your taste, but imagine you were forced to live in Iraq and put on an English wedding. You'd probably get the same reaction from the locals when shopping for a cake constructed of several layers of plain icing and a single diamond solitaire set in white gold.
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I'm with Lauren on that. Lack of taste aside, there's never anyone in those shops, makes it really weird.
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I know, I've lived in Harringay all my adult life, so for about 16 years now. I admit my naivity over what a Tiny Tears planted in a cake symbolises in Kurdish cuture but my point was more about the shops always being empty and why there are so many of them.
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Permalink Reply by Betty Careless on
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Whilst I personally have never felt the need for a giant doll cake, I like the cake shops. Does anyone remeber that awesome one (now sadly closed) that used to have a cake in the shape of a gigantic green coach and horses?
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There's a photo of me standing next to that somewhere! *checks Facebook*
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Adali makes nice cakes and they'll make them any way you want. I guess the plaster cakes are just to show what they are capable of but if you want something a little less ostentatious, they'll oblige.
La Ruche once made an astonishing Tigger cake for my daughter that prompted oohs and aahs when revealed. It was also delicious. Prices are always reasonable.
Daughter was speechless with pleasure this week after having a slice of Melda's choc fudge cake at Shamata.
There is variation in taste and quality of work. These bakeries are my personal favourites.
Incidentally, I was talking about the 'bad old days' of protection rackets and 'fronts' with two new Turkish entrepreneurs on GL. They were interested but only as a bit of history. Didn't seem aware of it being a problem now.
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The green coach one (can't remember its name) did a brilliant 25th anniversary cake for my organisation - cheap, efficiant, and, more importantly, very good cake! Most of their business seemed to be making 'occasion' cakes for people rather than being a traditional 'pop in and buy a cake for your tea' bakery - may possibly explain why they never look that busy.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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It was a great cake but after midnight it turned into a pumpkin.
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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... watching Lammy be utterly ineffectual in his day job and then make threats and bully boy statements on the side is nauseating.>>
My thoughts about the character too, a sell out and waste of space. A lot of hot air moving comes to thought. Such a pity with so much potential in our communities just shouting to be heard. Plus the complete sell out to big private developers from those who should be seeking a more socially inclusive agenda.
We need to get rid of Labour too! But who shall we put in?
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