Evening standard on tottenham's £1 billion investment

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on March 28, 2014 at 11:17

And, Anne,  to keep explaining carefully and factually why it's a billion pound lie.

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on March 30, 2014 at 0:46

A tweet from Martin Ball - who attended the Tottenham event at the Victoria & Albert Museum on 28 March 2014, reported that Cllr Alan Strickland was "unapologetic" about his attendance at the Cannes freebie trip.

According to a tweet from Martin Ball Alan Strickland also claimed that the £1bn investment claim is "not that contentious" , adding that it was: "nearly two billion actually" . 

"Creative accounting" was supposed to have been a feature of the old so-called "Loony Left" boroughs back in the 1980s.  I wonder what "non-contentious" financial assumptions support this astonishing doubling of the wonderclaim.  I'll be emailing Cllr Strickland to ask him.  Or to ensure I get a reply, perhaps sending a Freedom of Information Request?

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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Permalink Reply by Robert Pike on March 29, 2014 at 12:10

Thanks Anne just going over the pages on Our Tottenham website now. Going to have a detailed review of the Wards Corner alternative proposal against the developer led option. Did you get a Quantity Surveyor involved who could fully cost your scheme and make a like-for-like comparison with the alternative? I think in these instances you have to play a bit of their game in putting up a robust commercial argument that also goes hand in hand with your community bottom up approach. 

A good precedent where a community took on commercial developers and won is the Coin St. It started with one battle over a plot of land next to the Oxo Tower and now is a thriving community and sustainable business. http://coinstreet.org/

It strikes me that if you could be successful in influencing policy change with your alternative proposal then it would be the spur to make other changes. Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by pamish on March 29, 2014 at 12:42

Our plan is costed - I don't have the details so will pass this query on. Our current plan is for the corner store, the indoor market and the floors above. It's not a like-for-like comparison of the Grainger plan, which demolishes the whole town centre: the shops and houses on the four roads High Rd/West Green Rd/Suffield Rd/Seven Sisters Rd, and replaces those with new build tower blocks.

Our plan also has provision for working on an area plan, to include the whole block and going as far as Westerfield Road, and Apex House. This would address the LBH Area Plan of 2004.  Please see our Design and Access Statement sections 2.3.19 to 4.0, at the LBH planning page or direct on our blog .

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on April 10, 2014 at 9:26

Out of curiosity, Robert, on your last paragraph above, how exactly do you see the sequence of events which leads to that happening?

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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