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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

In another post Alan Stanton has drawn attention to a event being held in Cannes tomorrow. The Haringey Chief Exec is hosting the "Tottenham Lunch" aboard the Clara One yacht. In describing the event to me, a little bird said "Tottenham's being bloody sold on a yacht in Cannes tomorrow". 

Is that fair comment? Does anyone know any more?

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Here she is: http://www.ybi1.com/clara_one_super_spacious_32m_motor_yacht_based_...

Not much space for the threatened 150 "networkers" but I guess our Chief Executive will enjoy offering up Tottenham to the circling tax exiles.

Burn it.

Burning parts of Tottenham High Road was only the first stage. As we know, it was destructive, angry, frightening, criminal, disorganised, uncontrolled. It hurt homes and businesses. Speaking to cameras soon afterwards, David Lammy feared it had ripped the heart out of Tottenham. Fortunately David was wrong. The heart still beats strongly.

The next stage, by planners, politicians, developers will have another more professional and surgical try at ripping out the heart. However the operation will be done in an entirely different way. It will be calm; courteous; smiling; carefully planned, organised, controlled and orchestrated. And entirely and carefully legal. It will hurt many more homes and businesses.

Haringey’s council housing estates are up for sale at Cannes, in the South of France, today.

Haringey Council recently decided to consult council tenants, about the future of all of its large estates in Tottenham. Activists say that the plans will mean the demolition of thousands of homes, to make way for the lucrative private deals being made in France this week.

20,000 people are attending the MIPIM international real estate marketplace at Cannes this week, including 4,300 investors and 3,000 Chief Executives and Chairmen, with 2,000 exhibiting companies from 80 countries. Cllr Alan Strickland, Haringey’s Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration, was a panel speaker on ‘Transforming Tottenham’ at MIPIM yesterday: http://londonatmipim.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/07.03.14-MI...

This afternoon, Haringey’s Chief Executive Nick Walkley will attend a working lunch on the Arup placemaking consultancy’s ‘Clara One’ yacht at Cannes. The yacht is located at the Albert Edouard Jetty, one of the most sought-after spots at the Palais des Festivals. The yacht is a “focal point for networking and meeting new people”. But not for you and me: this will be a private lunch, and a closed event. http://www.arup.com/News/Events_and_exhibitions/MIPIM_2014.aspx

Haringey Council tenant Paul Burnham says, “It is so cynical to sell off our estates at Cannes like this. And it is both sad and wrong at home, to read Haringey documents constantly implying that council housing causes unemployment or lower life expectancy. Instead,tenants value our secure council tenancies, and we enjoy the lowest rents in the housing market. We should stop these demolitions, and we should build more and better council housing. We don't have any Tory Councillors in Haringey, so why is the Labour Council doing the Tories' dirty work?"

For those developers unable to join the jet set this week, there will be still more chances to bid for Haringey’s housing assets, at Sitematch London on 2nd April. Michael Kelleher, Haringey’s Head of Housing Investment and Sites, will take part in the event, which will work in a "speed dating" format, featuring a desk for each participating local authority or public sector landowner, staffed by a senior member of the regeneration, development or planning team, alongside a Sitematch London advisor.
http://www.sitematchlondon.com/attendees.html

"Take a chunk of Tottenham. Take two or three. We've plenty to dispose of, for next to nothing", comments Tottenham Labour Councillor Alan Stanton.

The publicity for the Sitematch event, designed by the artist Gene Cornelius, and inspired by the pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, depicts developers and officers actually making the match. She reflects, “Council desperately seeking partner to develop sites. Mixed use considered”, while he ponders, “How can I tell, if this is the one for me?...”

See one of the images here: http://www.3foxfiles.co.uk/downloads/sitematch/estates_gazette_site...

Cllr Stanton says, “We do need new homes for Tottenham residents. But not red-rosetted Tory displacement and social cleansing in the interest of profit, for developers, Arup, and other consultants”.

Paul Burnham says, “Haringey have decided to spend £1,500,000 from our rent accounts, over the next three years, to “sell” us the deals being made at Cannes today. That is unfair and wrong - and it is not what we pay our rent for”.
http://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=36516
[Scroll to ‘Financial Planning - Appendicies1 to 6, Item 608’ and see p7].

“Haringey’s housing plans aim to price local people out of our own area”, he continued. “Instead of demolition and private redevelopment, we need new council housing for local people - including the 9,838 households on Haringey’s waiting list”.

More from:

Paul Burnham
Haringey Defend Council Housing
07847 714 158

Cllr Alan Stanton (Labour) 020 8376 4223

Cllr Alan Strickland (Labour), Haringey Council - Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration 07854 481 050

Notes for Editors:

(1) Haringey’s housing waiting list was 9,838 at 01/04/13 – the last published figure [DCLG website, Live tables 600].

(2) Defend Council Housing
http://www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch/

Is it April yet?

It's Pantomime season come very early.

Poor Cllr Jack Strickland. Still believes in developers' magic beans. And he naively hopes they'll look after Daisy the cow.  https://twitter.com/AlanStanton_

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

This is one of Alan's elaborate jokes, right?

At 3am (wide awake after unholy screaming followed by my neighbour being carted off in a police van) I was sure this was all a joke.....?

Elaborate Joke? Like:

There is no yacht called Clara One? (Ein Claire. Should we report Arup to the Standards Committee?) Or maybe there is no Arup?  And no CEO doing what it says on the Cannes? No such councillor as Alan Strickland speed-dating yesterday?  All a bad dream? Music from Oklahoma!

Haringey folks should stick together—
      Haringey folks should all be chums—
Residents drive developers' Porsches,
      Councillors under developers' thumbs.

So when are some of our myriad creatives going to produce "Haringey: the Musical" ?

You clearly weren't at Tottenham Ploughman's then Osbawn, oh ye of little faith. 

The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) a film written by Ian McEwan. Lead actors: Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris. In the trailer on YouTube - 27 seconds in - Frank Finlay explains the origin of The supposedly traditional Ploughman's Lunch as "a completely successful fabrication of the past".

Highly relevant in this context because - in least in my own view - a "narrative" of deliberately vague language, obfuscation, half-truths and lies has been constructed to justify a particular theory and model of "regeneration".

The thing I have an issue with is the whole bizarreness of it. Tottenham is being sold on a yacht in Cannes... You could not make it up.

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