It’s a typical north London street of late Victorian two-storey terraced homes put up as the railway arrived with a small park and a primary school at one end and prices now heading towards £600,000 for a three-bed house, according to some estimates. Typical except for its name – Black Boy Lane. Despite periodic concerns […]
Sadiq Khan’s introduction of referendums into the often-fraught issue of estate regeneration was welcomed by some and questioned by others. Those most strongly in favour were often Green, Corbyn Left and other housing activists, who perhaps anticipated that council and housing association tenants would rise up against alleged “social cleansing” and reject redevelopment plans. Others […]
Hard on the heels of the collapse of the Wards Corner development plans in south Tottenham, another controversial Haringey housing scheme is hanging in the balance, this time at the northern end of Tottenham High Road. Battle lines are being drawn as the long-delayed residents’ ballot gets underway on plans to demolish the council’s 297-home […]
Haringey Council’s ruling cabinet will have a very new look after Thursday’s annual meeting of the authority, following the recent one-vote ousting of Labour group leader Joseph Ejiofor by Peray Ahmet. Born and raised in the borough, Ahmet, who will be the council’s first Muslim leader, will replace eight of the nine-person cabinet, including high-profile […]
Turmoil, feuds and complex faction fighting have been constant features of the Labour Party in the London borough of Haringey since an influx of new members accompanied the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, a former Haringey councillor, to the leadership of Labour in 2015. A successful, Momentum-driven campaign to de-select sitting Haringey councillors deemed insufficiently aligned […]
Among the quieter items among last week’s Transport for London board papers was news that up to £500,000 have been made available to the beleaguered traders of Seven Sisters indoor market, known to some as the Latin Village, to help them through the coming months while work on a temporary new home for them is […]
When he was suspended from the Labour Party in September following a complaint that he had shared allegedly antisemitic content on Facebook, Haringey councillor Noah Tucker (pictured) firmly denied the charges made against him. The told the Ham & High, which had received screenshots of comments made and articles shared by Tucker, that he opposes […]
The politics of race and representation can take many forms. Recent manifestations of them in Haringey have shed light on the unending internal strife of the Labour Party in that borough, famously home to the nation’s first and only “Corbyn Council”. In September, following some arcane and contested timetabling issues, Haringey Council’s restive majority Labour […]
