Haringey Council leader Joseph Ejiofor has fired his cabinet member for children and families, Zena Brabazon, apparently on the grounds that she failed to keep him properly informed about a recent child protection case in the borough. In a statement, Ejiofor said: “The cabinet member for children, education and families is one of the most […]
Back in February, when the coronavirus crisis was just a news item from China, On London carried an interview with five traders from the Seven Sisters indoor market, often referred to as the Latin Village. Long-standing plans to redevelop the dilapidated former Wards furniture store building in which the market is located have, for years, […]
Embattled Haringey Council leader Joseph Ejiofor has hit back at critics of council-backed plans to redevelop the Wards Corner site in south Tottenham. In a lengthy statement published on the council website, Ejiofor, who sits on Momentum’s national coordinating group, hits out at “myths and falsehoods” about threats to the “Latin Village” indoor market currently […]
Members of a Labour Party branch in north London want to create a special grouping within Labour for working-class people in order to help the party form a national government. An invitation to join the project circulated before the Crouch End ward’s regular branch meeting scheduled for tomorrow (4 February) says that although “the middle-classes […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan put reducing violent crime at the forefront of his bid to win a second term at City Hall, with a strident defence of his current policies at last night’s People’s Question Time event in Haringey. Khan, who has been criticised by rivals for his response to a rising murder rate and […]
A legal challenge to prevent the redevelopment of a Latin American indoor market in Seven Sisters was today defeated at the High Court, when a judge upheld approval of a Compulsory Purchase Order for the site the market occupies. Traders from the Latin Village, as it is known, had claimed that the now former communities […]
A government planning inspector has backed a major retail and 121-home development in Wood Green after Haringey Council dropped its objection to the level of affordable housing on the site. The three to nine floor development on the site of the former Marks and Spencer store on Wood Green High Road, which closed its doors […]
City Hall plans for hundred of new homes on former NHS land in south Tottenham are moving ahead, but with only two cheers from residents campaigning for community-led affordable housing on the site. Mayor Khan this month launched a call for a development partner for the St Ann’s hospital site, stipulating that a minimum of […]
