Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Park town centre plan moves closer
An ambitious multi-million pound plan to make Finsbury Park a cleaner, nicer place to live and visit moved closer this week. The Finsbury Park Town Centre Planning Document - running to almost 60 pages - has been released for consultation, giving more details about plans to improve the area.
NB This is Islington Council territory not LBH, though there are some three-way plans for art projects with Islington, Haringey and Hackney.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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We should have a big party at Rowans. ASAP.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Pike on
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I am confused by the image. Is that on the current side of the bus station and Arsenal shop?
Delete the Finsbury Park sign and omit the railway and this could be anywhere - just another developer led identikit High St
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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The railway line and train is a hint. The picture is looking North East.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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With a hole in the current building line along Stroud Green Road, hence the disorientation. Looks like the cycle park is a gonner, too.
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Why thank you Holmes. Thought so. Thing is this image doesn't appear in the draft SPD and much of the plans within it focus on the other side of the line hence the need for clarification. That okay?
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Yes, the image is from the Tottenham Journal story linked to by Pam; it doesn't appear in the Islington Council planning document, which as you say concentrates on the area west of the railway.
But unless I'm reading boundary maps wrong, in that image the pair of buildings shown facing the [empty of buses] bus station area are in Haringey, not Islington, though it's a tri-borough (Hackney too) venture. I've tried a couple of other Islington planning docs, on the assumption that they're leading the process, without spotting that image.
As you say, it does look generic, but I'd be surprised there's detailed design done yet. One thing that the image does hint at is that the Twelve Pins pub would be retained. Anyone else tried to walk round that corner on match day??
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PS Follow this link to find that another HoL correspondent previously took issue with that image bigtime!
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That's a great link.
Few, if any, comments on planning permissions come close to capturing both the complexity and the professionalism of Clive Carter's submission.
It's interesting that is shows that a political aspirant was active in the area well prior to the local elections. I don't think we could find such evidence of involvement from the likes of Cllrs Ryan and Ibrahim.
It's a credit to our de facto Harringay Councillor that he continues to represent Harringay so well even after the elections.
I've yet to see evidence of our holy trinity* doing anything toward representing their constituents.
* The daughter (Ibrahim), son(Ryan), and holy ghost (Adamou) .
The Lib Dems are certainly persona non gratia on a national level. but they remain the only ones doing anything for the people of Harringay ward.
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Hmm, he's deliberately described as "another HoL correspondent" rather than name him or his current Haringey role because his review of the Finsbury Park project did not seem to me to be party political (and nor am I).
The discussion is about Finsbury Park redevelopment, rather than unrelated criticism of Harringay ward councillors. There are plenty of other threads dedicated to criticising local councillors.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Because IIRC it was published long before this May, when CC was a mere civilian.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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For a lovely moment I thought they were proposing to pedestrianise Seven Sisters Road! But I guess the walk way heading north in the middle of the picture is a new one, heading directly into Fins Park (and Seven Sisters Rd is still its usual car choked mess, over to the right?).
RIP Rowans eh. I'm very fond of it myself.
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