Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hawes+Curtis plan breaches Mayor's need for affordable housing
Just had a look at their plans, for the Planning Meeting this Thursday.
I would have thought that the plan is disqualified as their provision of anything but private sale is inadequate. The mayor's manifesto says 'I’ll work with boroughs to deliver on my target of half of all new homes being genuinely affordable'. I don't know how much of his manifesto has been confirmed as policy but that is his target.
"The viability assessment submitted with the application sets out that no affordable housing can viably be provided [the usual starting position]. The independent viability assessment that was commissioned by the Council did not agree with this position and subsequently the provision of 12%, equating to 16 shared ownership units with the NHS facility or 17.3% equating to 26 shared ownership units if a commercial unit is proposed has been proposed. This is confirmed to be the maximum reasonable amount of affordable housing."
So where is the genuinely affordable housing in this scheme?
Tags for Forum Posts: 590-598 Green Lanes, hawes & curtis
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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John D >>the HTH sale cannot go ahead and be sent back for reconsideration.
Yes thanks John, I'm all over this, it's dear to me.
As expected (as and Michael comments above), the 'call-in' was yet another hubristic charade where the Cabinet Member concerned (Alan Strickland) mainsplained away - council webcast (6 mins in for around 12 mins) of Tuesdays extended put-down.
How revolting do the almost one third of Haringey Cllrs who loudly objected have to be to get any joy from Cabinet? If a mass Cllr protest, first in over a decade, is so comprensively dismissed (peppered with subtle jibes), what can anyone do to stop the family jewel waste?
Even the most supportive of people start when they hear the name of the $2bn corporate the Cabinet have given a £150m campus and £35m pure profit to:
Far East International Consortium Ltd
Cayman Islands? Natch. In return? Unenforceable promises - the corporate have more expensive lawyers. It's almost criminal that the Council are giving this bunch such a huge sum when actually there's no need to sell the land at all. Wish I could prevent it - any suggestions? Anyone?
John McM>>HTH is accidentally burnt down
Ha! HTH is largely marble and brick - solid enough to survive anything.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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The listed interior looked pretty wooden to me...
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Even more so now they've removed the asbestos from the Council Chamber walls and put the wood back without any fire protection at all:
Still, underneath the thin veneer are solid walls punctuated by good ole Crittall metal windows (click here for a virtual tour if you fancy a look around)
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Assets of Communty Value
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_dat...
Or is it too late for that?
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A community group of residents was formed last year - HTH Appreciation Society. They applied for ACV status and it was granted but their plea for Community Asset Transfer was rejected at their deputation hearing by the Council.
What else short of a legal challenge can be done to prevent the sell-off to a $2bn corporate? I have a set of figures I created that shows that HTH can be run and refurbished without selling off the land at the rear and stop giving away the £35m profit in developing the land at the rear.
In the past, the Council have simply ignored community plans - the Council are the only ones with a complete set of facts, after all, as they keep everything in secret if they can.
How can I get them to handover, for instance, every HTH-related line item of income and expenditure over the last decade (when it was empty) and the last two years (when it has been and still is run by a three-person arts org, subletting it as a venue and as office space?
How can I get my subsequent calcs validated so I can prove to the Council beyond doubt that it is possible to run and refurb HTH without a land sell-off? Get one of the big 5 accountants to declare the plan viable?
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