Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Ducketts common 'planted' area - opinions please!

Friends of Duckett's Common group would love Harrringay Online member's feedback on the 'planted' area that was recently fenced off by the bus stops at the Turnpike Lane tube entrance on Turnpike Lane. Our feeling is that it is now just an eyesore, adding to the Park department's workload. At our last meeting we discussed how to take things forward and we felt that given the current shabby and neglected state of the bed and the way large numbers of people are walking across it as a shortcut, it made sense to suggest that the council move the fence back to the previous boundary, abandoning this idea of a planted area. It would be great to have some opinions on the following question:

Should we ask the council to either:

a. Set the fence back to the original boundary of the common as it was before the development last year and return the planted area to grass

b. Set the fence back to near the original boundary as it was before the development apart from the corners on each side of the planted bed where the public has created paths/desire lines so that these new paths would be respected and remain outside the fence/outside the common. This option would relinquish a small section of park land to make way for footpath (setting a potentially dangerous precedent some of us felt) but would allow people to continue to shortcut the corner as they have been doing.

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