Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Salisbury piazza - latest development
.. Is a solicitor's firm, ostensibly of the ambulance-chasing variety, is setting up shop in the empty building opposite the pub and has garishly adorned its frontage thus...
Surely this needs planning permission on account of its size and prominence? And surely the council will take action? ..
One thing is beyond doubt - this sign is a provocative eyesore. If it stays we can surely all agree the piazza dream is dead...
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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This suggests a Special Hol Series on convenient and unfortunate Harringay fires with similarly barren barn-like results. Any advance on Il Colosseo, La Piazza - AD 2000; Iglesia S. Paolo, Via Wightman, Mercoledi delle Ceneri 1984? I'm sure the historically-minded among you can come up with others.
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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Why is a solicitor's firm (loosely so described) preferable to a bookmaker's?...
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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I'm sorry, but as someone who lives very near to the Coliseum, and passes it every day, I'd rather have it occupied than empty; and I'd much rather have a "solicitor" (no matter how questionable) than another betting shop. Betting shops attract drunks, smokers and other socially undesirable elements. There are far too many of them already. If only a fire that was as "convenient" as the one that destroyed the old Coliseum former cinema would strike the remaining betting shops....
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" I'd rather have it occupied than empty"
Regardless of what the new occupiers do, or do with the building?
"Betting shops attract drunks, smokers and other socially undesirable elements"
Don't you mean pubs?
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People are not allowed to smoke in pubs. Yes, pubs attract undesirables, but as the Salisbury is more and more gentrified, there are fewer undesirables. Fewer betting shops (betting being an addiction) would help to drive the riff-raff out of the neighbourhood. As for what I would ideally like to see there, it would be a Starbucks. Then we would all know that gentrification proper had arrived in Harringay, the prices of our property would start to really climb, and we would all be celebrating in the "piazza" with champagne.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Is Starbucks>Costa? We got us a Costa in 7Sisters now.
(But there is a Paddy Power next door.)
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Oh, I get it. You're not serious.
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Starbucks' arrival would be the true sign of real gentrification. Costa will go anywhere - witness they are in Wood Green. And, no HarringayBirder, why would I not be serious? Surely all us middle-class home owners want nothing more than a huge influx of Yuppies from Crouch End and "Stokie" to drive up our property values?
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Permalink Reply by GillianM on
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I suspect they're not fond of either in Stokey! Church Street is still strongly independent (save for Nandos, the threatened Sainsbury's and that expensive health food shop)
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With you on almost all of this, Pav. Personally, I'd like to see a really good Italian restaurant on the Coliseum site. It would add to the diversity of the food on offer in the high street, and I'm sure there'd be enough Italian food lovers to support it. Or maybe a Spanish or Latin American restaurant, given how well the ones in South Tottenham seem to be doing. Anything to add to the diversity.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Diversity ?
Plenty of that on HOL
. Over in another thread, people are rubbishing the Tottenham Green market on the basis that poorer people can't afford to buy food there. Here, on the other hand, people are asking for a really good restaurant ( at which poorer people can't afford to buy food ) .
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Be fair, John D: there are plenty of low-cost restaurants and take-aways on Green Lanes, where people on low income could afford to eat. And no-one is asking for an expensive restaurant, Italian or otherwise; just a good one. As for Tottenham Green, the poorer people who can't afford the higher-price fare at the market are very well catered for by good value restaurants etc all along the High Road. That is what diversity is about, something for everyone.
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