In January 2009 I visited the indoor market next to Seven Sisters station, known as the Latin Village because of its traders and goods hailing from Colombia, Argentina and Brazil. Writing for the Guardian, I described it as “unique” and “irreplaceable”. The reason for my visit was that the market had been earmarked for destruction. […]
Haringey’s new-look “Corbyn council” is squaring up this week to an unlikely adversary – Jeremy Corbyn himself. The battleground is the authority’s licensing committee, where a marathon two-day review session is in progress, rehearsing long-running arguments over the holding major music concerts in Finsbury Park. The challenge to an indefinite licence granted in 2013 to […]
Haringey battle lines are being drawn for what could be the first vote under London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new policy requiring resident support for regeneration schemes with Greater London Authority funding. A ballot on Tottenham’s 297-home Love Lane estate has been announced for March and April next year. The vote puts £60 million of City […]
Youth charity OnSide has expressed its disappointment following Haringey Council’s decision to scrap a partnership which would have delivered a £6.5m “Youth Zone” in the borough. The decision, hinted at in July, was confirmed at the council’s cabinet last Tuesday. The investment plan, originally approved in March this year – before a decisive pro-Jeremy Corbyn […]
Haringey’s “Corbyn Council” is set to confirm a controversial decision hinted at in July to scrap plans for a multi-million pound investment in youth facilities in the borough. Under plans originally approved in March this year – before the decisive pro-Jeremy Corbyn change in the council leadership – Haringey would have partnered with charity OnSide […]
Having been swept to power on a wave of Corbynite protest against the demolition of council housing, leaders of Haringey’s “Corbyn Council” soon found themselves advocating the destruction of two blocks on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate, which have been found to be unsafe. Residents of one of those blocks, Tangmere, must move out by the end of […]
Haringey’s new “Corbyn Council” was in the news last week for pulling the plug on the previous Labour administration’s proposed development vehicle, which would have delivered 6,400 new homes across the borough, 40 per cent of them affordable. Ditching the plan will cost the council at least £520,000 and there is a threat of a […]
Regeneration giant Lendlease has told Haringey’s new Labour council that abandoning the joint venture company it had been close to forming with the previous Labour administration would expose it to “a significant loss of profits claim” and a further one for the recovery of costs accrued for work already done on the proposal. In a letter to the council’s […]
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