Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Free parking to support local traders on Small Business Saturday 3rd December
Parking charges across the borough will be waived to support local high streets on Small Business Saturday which is on the 3rd December.
It will be free to park in council-run town centre car parks and pay and display bays on the day, which aims to celebrate local traders and encourage people to shop locally as they gear up for the festive season.
There is also a host of activities planned across the borough to mark Small Business Saturday including:
Wood Green High Road will have entertainment including a Christmas Tree lights, a choir singing carols, live music and DJs, salsa dancing and pop-up stalls on the corner of Lymington Avenue.
In Crouch End there is a Christmas Craft Market running from 10am to 5pm.
Tottenham Winter Festival – from 12 – 6pm on Tottenham Green with Christmas Tree lights at 5pm (featuring a special guest), a range of market stalls, family activities and live music performances .
On Sunday 4th December there will also be the Myddleton Road Winter Festival including a Santa’s grotto, music, craft and food and drink stalls, a fun-fair and other children’s activities.
Controlled Parking Zones and other essential parking restrictions including road works will remain in force on Small Business Saturday.
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Permalink Reply by Itsjono on
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This is an appalling idea. It underscores councils' lack of imagination when it comes to meeting the needs of its residents, most of whom don't own a car, and would be best to stay home on this day, as the high street will be jammed up with cars, roaming around, unable to park as there are more of them, with no incentive to leave.
It is astonishing that they think this is a good plan when every single borough around Haringey has introduced or is trialling measures to reduce motor traffic and increase journeys on foot and bike, meanwhile Haringey puts up PVC banners outside the borough parks reminding people they have legs.
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I agree Jono. You can shop locally on foot - that's sort of the point; or by public transport. And I say that as a car driver who has no intention of taking up this "offer".
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Whoopy doo, let's make the local areas more attractive by encouraging busier roads.
Generally the amount of trade from drivers is hugely overestimated http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dot-economic-benefits-of-...
Results: Data from the Vanderbilt Avenue improvement site shows a sustained, dramatic trend of increasing economic performance. The faster pace of increases on Vanderbilt compared with comparison sites and the borough as a whole indicates that the street improvements contributed to this fast-paced growth in retail activity. The upward trend in combined sales began prior to the construction period and continued at a similar pace afterward. By the third year following the 2008 implementation, sales were more than double the baseline value. Vanderbilt Avenue performed significantly better than two of its similar site comparisons and Brooklyn as a whole. While the economy of this neighborhood was already on the upswing, it is reasonable to conclude that the improved safety, shortened crossings, and new landscaping all combined to increase foot and bicycle traffic and enhance the sense of place, creating a virtuous cycle of retail development that was greater than it otherwise would have been
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Shocking policy - as Neil Kinnock might have said, "out-dated, mis-placed, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council! - promoting car journeys at the expense of residents health and climate change".
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I wonder how long drivers will take to get out of Sainbury's car park that afternoon?
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Wood Green gets trees, carols, DJ sets.
Crouch End gets craft fairs
Tottenham gets a winter festival
Green Lanes gets free parking. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
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Permalink Reply by Katie K on
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Less than half the households in Haringey even have a car (2011 Census data), rising much higher in many of the wards around Wood Green and Tottenham (Crouch Enders probably have 2 to make up for it), so who is this even for? Surely the money that Haringey Council will lose on parking charges should be kept and put into vital Council services that we all know Haringey will have to axe imminently. (And why Haringey hasn't raised the Council Tax in years is another thing that I don't undestand when services are so in danger).
KT
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Permalink Reply by HoL Site Admin on
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A set of Twitter exchanges with Haringey Cabinet Member Peray Ahmet, triggered by this post. (For chronological order, work up from the bottom):
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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This is unbeliveable! Below are some quotes directly from various announcements and policies on Haringey's website
"Haringey is a borough with high pollution and areas suffering from excessive traffic congestion. As part of a London-wide transport strategy, Haringey is committed to reducing car use in the borough and so reduce pollution, accidents, and delays to buses."
"An efficient transport network has positive effects on health by enabling access to recreational amenities, social networks, health services, education and employment. However, car use, in particular, can have a negative impact on health by contributing to air pollution, causing road traffic injuries, reducing physical activity levels, increasing noise pollution, contributing to community severance and increasing levels of stress and anxiety. A safe highway network which increases the attractiveness for more vulnerable highway users (eg pedestrians) has considerable benefits for air quality and physical and mental health"
Haringey Local Plan target - "Reduce Haringey’s CO2 emissions from transport through smarter travel measures to reduce car use and encourage the use of low carbon transport alternatives, to ensure the transport sector makes the necessary contribution to achieving a 40% carbon reduction by 2020 and a 60% reduction by 2025"
Haringey Greenest Borough Strategy - "We will minimise congestion and reduce carbon emissions and pollutants in Haringey. Our aim is to reduce car based journeys and encourage workers, residents and businesses to switch to walking, cycling and public transport"
The Greenest Borough strategy says, in about 14 point type
"The Council is committed to improving the quality of life for everyone in the borough and must lead by example and act as a role model to our residents and to our business community. We will adopt best practice environmental management standards and procurement principles in our own operations"
Is Haringey just ripping up its commitments in order to promote a concept that has been disproven in study after study - it is not car drivers who spend money in local shops, it is people on public transport, bikes and on foot.
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The Traders association have way too much power. When wireless was on they insisted Lothair North and south and the adjoining rds have no parking restrictions as they were worried they'd lose customers. I got that info from both a councillor and Haringey council.
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It's not even power used well. Green Lanes would do so much better trade is parking was removed down the side and the pavement widened
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That was in my mind too Osbawn but I'm sure that not all the local shops have fallen for the nonsense that more parked cars equal more trade. Haringey will be promoting this in some way so maybe keep an eye open for which shops are promoting it through window posters etc,. So perhaps we can make our feelings known to them.
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