planning+-+Local+Issues+-+Wood+Green+Audit

THE

 * WOOD GREEN **
 * AUDIT **

WOOD GREEN TOWN CENTRE

 * from **
 * Wood Green to Turnpike Lane Tube Stations  **
 * including the environs to within about 50 metres **

=Prepared by=
 * PARKSIDE MALVERN RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION,**
 * with general endorsement**
 * and contributions (direct and indirect) from:**
 * AVENUE GARDENS RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION **
 * BURGHLEY ROAD AREA RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION **
 * NOEL PARK NORTH AREA RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION **
 * THE SANDLINGS RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION  **
 * WEST GREEN RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION **
 * HARINGEY FEDERATION OF RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATIONS **


 * (As at 12.9.2006)**

**__ CONTENTS __** ** PAGE ** A. ‘Back-Endism’: The Town Centre’s Rear Elevations…………………………..……………….….5 B. The Back Alley Problem.……..……………………………………………..………………………5 B (appendix). The Back Alley Problem - General Conclusions and Suggested Action.. …………….. 8  C. The Lack of Public Toilet Facilities…………………………………………………...……………. 9  D. An Open Space Network for Wood Green Town Centre..…..……………………..……….…….…9 E. Cycling on the Pavements……………………………………………………………………....…. 11  F. Bollards, Railings and Pavement Parking.………………………………………………..…………11 G. Pelican Crossings…………………………………………………………………………..……….11 H. Trees - The De-Greening of Wood Green Town Centre…………………………..…………….…12 I. Street Clutter - The Lamppost Advertising Banners and Advertising Display Stands………….....12 J. The Pigeon Problem……………………………………………………………………..…………..13 K. Drainage………………………………………………………………………………..…..………..13 L. Underfoot Pavement Lights……………………………………..……………………..…………….13 M. Signposts……………………………………………………..………………..……………………14 N. Heritage and the ‘Local List’………………………………..………………..…………………….14 O. Street Cleansing………………………………..……………………………….…………………..15 P. Pavement Renewal and Maintenance…………………………………..………………….………..15
 * INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS** …………………..………………..3
 * AIMS AND CONTEXT** ……………………………………….…………….…………………….4
 * PART ONE: General Issues Occurring Throughout The Town Centre** ………..…5

Q. Crime, Anti-Social Behaviour, and Enforcement………..….………………………………………16
R. Pavement Widening/Narrowing………………………………………………………….…………17 1. THE WOOD GREEN THRESHOLD.…..…………………………………………………………..18 2. WOOD GREEN ROAD JUNCTION AND CROSSINGS.…………………………………………18 3. WOOD GREEN TUBE STATION.…….…………………………………………………………..19 4. SPOUTERS CORNER.………..……………………………………………………………………19 5. THE HOLLYWOOD GREEN LEISURE COMPLEX..…….………………………………………20 6. LORDSHIP LANE.………………………………………………………………………………….20 7. DEMOLITION OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL.………………………………………..21 8. JOLLY BUTCHERS HILL……….…………………………………………………………………21 9. THE BOUNDS GREEN ROAD/GREEN LANES JUNCTION…….………………………………22 10. RIVER PARK HOUSE CORNER…………………………………………………………………23 11. STATION ROAD AND THE ‘GOOSE AND GRANITE’ CORNER…….………………………23 12. THE MORRISONS FRONTAGE AND BUS STOP……..……………………………………….23 13. BULLER ROAD AND REDVERS ROAD…..……………………………………………………25 14. THE GLADSTONE AVENUE JUNCTION……..………………………………………………..25 15. GLADSTONE TERRACE (FROM GLADSTONE AVE TO SHOPPING CITY)……………….26 16. THE BROADWAY PARADE…….……………………………………………………………….26 17. THE CENTRAL LIBRARY AND FORECOURT…….………………………………………….27 18. THE NEW RETAIL/HOUSING DEVELOPMENT (PORTMAN HOUSE)……………………..28 19. THE NEW PELICAN CROSSING………………………………………………………………..28 20. THE SHOPPING CITY AREA……………………………………..…………..…………………29 21. BOOTS CORNER AND THE ALEXANDRA ROAD JUNCTION…….……..…………………31 22. THE LYMINGTON AVENUE MALL…..…………………………………….………………….32 23. CHEAPSIDE TO MARKS AND SPENCERS…..……………………………….………………..32 24. DOVECOTE AVENUE……..……………………………………………………….…………….33 25. ALEXANDRA ROAD TO COLERAINE ROAD…..……………………………………………..33 26. BETWEEN MARKS AND SPENCERS AND WESTBURY AVENUE………………………….34 27. COLERAINE ROAD TO TURNPIKE LANE……………………………………………………..35 28. THE TURNPIKE LANE JUNCTION……..……………………………………………………….36 29. TURNPIKE LANE…………………………………………………………………………………36 30. DUCKETTS COMMON….………………………………………………………………………..37 31. TURNPIKE LANE TUBE STATION AND BUS STATION….………………………………….37 32. THE LANGHAM ROAD/WESTBURY AVENUE ‘WEDGE’…..……………………………….37 33. LANGHAM ROAD ADJACENT TO THE BUS AND TUBE STATIONS………………………38 34. WESTBURY AVENUE……………………………………………………………………………38 35. THE TURNPIKE LANE THRESHOLD..………………………………………………………….38 S1. STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO THE ROAD AND FOOTWAY……..…………………………39 S2. STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT………………………………………………………………………………40 S3. PUBLIC REALM MAINTENANCE DEFICIENCIES…...………………………………………40 S4. PRIVATE REALM MAINTENANCE DEFICIENCIES…………………………………………41 S5. OPEN SPACE AND GREEN IMPROVEMENTS………………………………………………..42 S6. HERITAGE - LISTING SUGGESTIONS.………………………………………………………..42 S7. STREET LIGHTING...…………………………………………………………………………….43 S8. STREET CLUTTER……………………………………………………………………………….43 S9. PUBLIC ART SUGGESTIONS..………………………………………………………………….43 S10. CRIME, ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, AND ENFORCEMENT……..………………………44 S11. CHANGES TO ETHOS, POLICY, AND ADMINISTRATIVE REGIMES….……..………….45
 * PART TWO: Specific Site-related issues: ‘A Wood Green Walkabout’** …………18
 * PART THREE: Summary of Suggested Changes in Parts One and Two**……… 39
 * __INTRODUCTION__ **

Like several on the Parkside Malvern Residents’ Association Committee, I have lived in Wood Green for over 30 years and have been by turns angered, pleased, intrigued, and on occasion utterly mystified by the changes wrought by the Council on our neighbourhood. With the news that a ‘Wood Green Masterplan’ was in the offing and yet another wave of changes imminent, it seemed to us that now was the time to draw a line in the sand, the time to state unequivocally on behalf of local people both what we think of the Town Centre now and what needs doing by the Council and others in the very near future. None of our ideas and suggestions are utopian. They are simply what is needed for Wood Green to achieve its full potential as a busy, viable and lively town centre that is also a safe and pleasant place in which to live, visit and work. Some facts. 1. London is the most cosmopolitan city on earth. 2. Wood Green/Noel Park is one of the most cosmopolitan areas in London. 3. According to a recent police statement, Wood Green High Road has the second busiest footfall in London, second only to Oxford Street. All of the above brings its problems of course, street crime, traffic and parking being the foremost; but it also brings ‘vibrancy’. New York? Paris? Bangkok? Forget it. If you want vibrancy, come to Wood Green! Despite the problems, to us it is remarkable that the people of Wood Green get on with each other so well, with very little history of racial violence and disruption. It is a shame therefore that our own local Council has such a record of disregard for what should be one of the jewels in its crown. Just in case the following pages sound too much like a litany of whinges, there is something which must be made absolutely clear. We like Wood Green (some of us even love it!). We like its ethnic, social and environmental diversity, we like the general tolerance and friendliness of its people, and of course we like its convenience for shops and public transport. Only people who really care about the place would ever feel so passionately that it could all be so much better. Laurie Owen, Chair, Parkside Malvern Residents’ Association. (Hornsey Park Road N8, Malvern Road N8, Park Ridings N8) I would like to thank the following for their help, encouragement and contributions in compiling this Audit: All of the PMRA Committee. Ulla Leffman, Burghley Road Area RA, N8. Dave Morris, Haringey Federation of Residents’ Associations. Simon Fedida, Avenue Gardens RA, N22. Helen Steel, Woodlands Park RA, N15. Ric Sajor and Colin Ward, residents of Carlingford Road, N15. Carol Kennedy, Wood Green Town Centre Manager, who has done much good work with very scant resources, particularly on the crime prevention front, and who must not feel that this Audit is in any way an attack on her. || || · ** to identify the major deficiencies of design, maintenance, and management in the streetscape of Wood Green High Road and its immediate environs. ** · ** to suggest specific improvements where appropriate  ** · ** to use the following prioritised criteria:  1. pedestrian safety in relation to traffic 2. pedestrian safety in relation to crime 3. aesthetic effect of the built and furnished environment on ** · ** to achieve wherever possible a harmony between the commercial needs of the Wood Green Town Centre retail trade and the environmental needs of shoppers and local residents ** · ** to substantially improve the experience of living, shopping and working in and around Wood Green Town Centre. ** · ** All of the above aims to be achieved within a wider strategy of preventing, and where possible, reversing the current migration of HGV’s and other traffic from the High Road onto the surrounding residential streets, and of reducing the impact of the Town Centre service vehicles on these streets. ** · ** All of the above aims to be achieved within a wider strategy of preserving and improving the vitality of all of Haringey’s retail centres (ie: not just Wood Green, but also Tottenham High Road, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, etc.). ** · ** All of the above aims to be achieved within an overall strategy of reducing general road traffic levels everywhere. ** ** __PART ONE__ ** Although technically outside the parameters of this audit, the issue of the rear elevations is so important and so inextricably linked to all aspects of life in the Town Centre that it cannot be ignored. 1. One of the worst features of the changes imposed on the people of Wood Green over the last thirty years is that series of architectural and environmental catastrophes constituted by the rear elevations of all the major new buildings and complexes, on both sides of the High Road. These are the ugly and oppressive rear views of the new developments, those which face directly onto the homes, gardens and living spaces of thousands of local people. The Shopping City and the Morrisons supermarket to the west and the Bury Road Car Park building to the east are the most obvious examples, but the Hollywood Green complex is almost as bad, showing that nothing has really been learned as yet. 2. This planning blight affects not only local residents. It is also a major PR blunder, a massive disincentive for all those thousands of potential Wood Green shoppers who get such a good view of this wretchedly negligent architecture as they commute along Mayes Road, Hornsey Park Road, Lordship Lane, etc. **Suggested Action** 3. This architectural cheapskatery must never be allowed to happen again. All new developments must take fully into account their effect on all of the surrounding communities and viewpoints, whether at the front, the back or the sides. On both sides of the High Road, and parallel to it, runs a series of back alleys, all affected by various degrees of maintenance blight, and many of which form the sole access to peoples’ homes. This Audit will deal with them here, as a group (in order from north to south), rather than individually in Part Two. 1. **//__ The North Broadway Parade Back Alley (ie. north of the Gaumont Palace) __//** This cul-de-sac alley is dangerous, filthy, stinking and verminous, in constant use as a rubbish dump, car park and street-drinkers toilet. That such an atrociously maintained area should also have to serve as the sole entrance to several peoples’ homes (nos. 11-19) is a scandal. **Suggested Action** A complete overhaul and reconfiguring is essential here, with a complete ban on vehicular access. The entrance to the alleyway desparately needs an upgrade. A brick wall and arched gate would be an improvement on the concentration camp style iron fencing now in place. 2. **//__ The South Broadway Parade Back Alley (ie. south of the Gaumont Palace) __//** This alleyway serves as a pedestrian link to Parkland Road and the Morrisons rear entrance and car park area and, like its partner above (B.1.), is the sole entrance to several peoples’ homes (nos. 3-8). Although not so squalid as its partner, much could still be done to make it cleaner and more people-friendly. The alleyway’s entrance onto the Library forecourt is frequently used as an illegal car park by drivers who reach it by mounting the footway next to the Mr Bagel’s cafe. **Suggested Action** The alleyway’s entrance onto the Library forecourt needs to be designed as an architectural extension of the Library. Kerbside bollards should be placed along the High Road to stop cars driving onto the pavement to park in the alleyway. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ The Main Alley from the Library Forecourt to Caxton Road/Parkland Road __//** This is an important pedestrian link to the Cultural Quarter and the Heartlands site. Although the alleyway pavement is at present receiving a long overdue upgrade, all aspects of the passage, including the walls, need redesigning as a welcoming, good quality pedestrian mall which complements the architecture of the Library and suggests the likelihood of a worthwhile destination at the other end. **Suggested Action** The whole wide alleyway (not just the paving) and its entrances should be designed as an architectural extension of the Library, and should be given the attention merited by such an important pedestrian link to the Heartlands site and the Cultural Quarter. Decorative screens/artwork should be considered. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Gladstone Mews and the alleys behind Gladstone Terrace __//** This is a varied accumulation of bits of road and alleyway that has just ‘happened’, with no thought as to purpose or amenity value. The newest, and therefore cleanest, section starts between the Shopping City and the new retail/housing block and continues behind the new block to join up with Gladstone Mews. The second section is a neglected pavementless road/alleyway (described by a handscrawled sign as a ‘Private Mews’) which extends behind the High Road shops. It is full of parked cars, retailers’ overflowing rubbish containers, and fly-tipped refuse, and is the sole entrance to many people’s homes. At its end, this fairly wide space narrows into a third section, a dilapidated overgrown tunnel of an alley, which forms the sole entrance to even more people’s homes. **Suggested Action** A pavement should be installed on the eastside of the so-called ‘Private’ mews. The lighting needs to be improved. The mews and the cul-de-sac alleyway at its end should be cleaned and renovated as  befits a space which forms the entrance and front yard to so many peoples homes. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Martins Walk __//**  This busy alleyway has long been recognised by the Council as a crucially important pedestrian link to the Cultural Quarter and the Heartlands site, and because of this has received some regeneration money, leading to improved lighting, good quality block paving and CCTV coverage. While this has led to some lessening of mugging incidents, the urine-reeking and mugger-friendly alcoves are still there, despite many promises to residents by the Council that they would be blocked off with gated screens or railings. The underfoot pavement lights are all defunct. **Suggested Action** The improvements started here five years ago should be finished - ie. the dangerous brick alcoves should be blocked off (preferably bricked up, with the entrances to Boots and the electricity generator brought forward), and the decrepit wooden fencing on the other side should be renewed or screened off with something more durable. All areas affected by urination should be washed down daily until a permanent blocking-off solution is put in place. The underfoot pavement lights should be removed and replaced with granite blocks to match the rest of the footway. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Hazel Mews __//**  This is a low grade cul-de-sac alley with several residential entrances, used by the High Road shops to park rubbish containers, and by other individuals as a urinating and fly-tipping area.. The end of it is just a dumping ground, overgrown with brambles and weeds. Ramshackle patchwork fencing extends down the west side. **Suggested Action** The brambles etc. should be removed and a weekly ‘deep clean’ instituted. A brick wall should be built in front of the ramshackle fencing, as the fencing will never be satisfactorily maintained if left up to the private owners. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Amber Mews __//** This alley, with its entrance cluttered with rubbish containers, pallets, etc. is a pavementless road which leads from Brampton Park Road to the rear of McDonalds, where there is room for a few cars to park. The alley also forms the sole access to some of the High Road flats, and as such it is quite unacceptable that there is no footway here. McDonalds have erected a sign at the entrance claiming it is a ‘Private Road’, a statement which is surely untrue, being merely a ruse to enable convenient parking for McDonalds staff. **Suggested Action** Shopowners who leave pallets and other rubbish outside their rubbish containers should be prosecuted. (Covert mobile CCTV units could be used to achieve this). The road should be bollarded off and completely pedestrianised. The McDonalds ‘Private Road’ sign should be removed. A weekly ‘deep clean’ should be instituted. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Wallis Mews __//** This is a fairly well-maintained alley (linking Brampton Park Road with Courcy Road) which serves as the sole access to some of the High Road flats, but suffers from the usual problems of fly-tipping and urinating. **Suggested Action** A weekly ‘deep clean’ should be instituted. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Lilac Mews __//**  This is a long and squalid alley (linking Courcy Road with Coleraine Road), lined with containers, and generally ill cared for by the adjoining High Road retailers, for whom it is simply a rubbish dump. There have been several fires here. **Suggested Action** Shopowners who leave pallets and other rubbish outside their rubbish containers should be prosecuted. (Covert mobile CCTV units could be used to achieve this). A weekly ‘deep clean’ should be instituted. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Walnut Mews __//**  This is a short cul-de-sac alley, reasonably well maintained, with one residential entrance. **Suggested Action** A weekly ‘deep clean’ should be instituted. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Alleyway behind 7-27 High Road (entrance by no.7, Cancer Research Shop) __//** This secluded alley is the sole entrance to many people’s homes above the High Road shops. It is appallingly maintained, always strewn with rubbish, and is a known magnet for criminal activities such as drug taking. As the owner of this alleyway, the Council is directly responsible for these disgraceful conditions. The doorway entrance to the alley has ‘13a’ graffitti’d on the brick walls, implying that this is the only flat to be accessed from here. **Suggested Action** A complete overhaul is essential here, including new paving. Beat officers and PCSOs should always include this alley on their rounds. A study should be made of the levels and types of criminal activities carried on here, and CCTV (linked to the High Road system) installed if necessary. The graffiti should be removed. A weekly ‘deep clean’ should be instituted. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **//__ Alleyway (east of the High Road) from Lymington Avenue to Dovecote Avenue __//** This is a long, dismal, squalid, fly-tipped, crime-friendly slum created by the Council when planning permission was granted to build the Page High/Bury Road Car Park complex. It is lined on one side by the rear of the High Road shops with all their attendant rubbish, and on the other by the brokendown back end of the Bury Road Service Yard. Most of the rubbish comes from the High Road retailers. The ambience is further degraded by large amounts of accumulated pigeon faeces. With its innumerable filthy alcoves and cubby holes, and its ‘dog leg’ shape, this is a classic example of a ‘designed-in’ criminal and antisocial behaviour hotspot. That this was allowed to happen in the full knowledge that the alley also formed the sole access to several peoples’ homes above the High Road shops, is contemptible. The Dovecote Avenue end of the alley, which is particularly squalid, lies next to the entrances of the Bury Road Car Park and the Page High appartments. What an extraordinary insult to Town Centre visitors and Page High residents! **Suggested Action** An urgent study, with full residents’ participation, should be undertaken of ways to reconfigure, clean up, and generally humanise this putrid space. The study should then be promptly acted on. Meanwhile, CCTV cameras, linked to the High Road system, should be installed to cover the whole alley. At present it is an ideal bolt-hole and escape hatch for muggers, pickpockets, shoplifters, etc. Shopowners who leave pallets and other rubbish outside their rubbish containers should be prosecuted. A weekly ‘deep clean’ should be instituted. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Town Centre’s back alley problem is serious and deep-seated, so serious and so deep-seated that it seems to have been deliberately designed into the modern Wood Green Town Centre as ‘a price worth paying’ for some future commercial advantage. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Council should set up a taskforce of Council officers, police officers and residents’ representatives with the brief of studying and making recommendations to resolve the problems of the alleyways’ structural and aesthetic environment, as well as the on-going problems of cleansing and maintenance. An assessment of lighting provision must also be included. The taskforce must work in full participation with local Residents’ Associations ( ie.from the start to the finish of its duration). The taskforce’s recommendations must be promptly acted on and a generous budget allocated for the purpose. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> As an easy start to the process of improvement, all of the alleyways should be officially named. This would clearly be helpful for both the emergency services and the relevant Council Departments. The name-choosing should be done in full consultation with local Residents’ Associations. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dozens of spots (eg. alcoves, doorways, utility boxes) in the Town Centre seem to have been designated as unofficial ‘pissoirs’, not only by selfish males but also by lazy or desparate parents with small children. Walking through Wood Green, and in particular its adjacent streets and alleyways, can thus become like running a stench gauntlet, a truly nauseating experience. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At present there is just one staffed public toilet in the Town Centre, situated in the Shopping City, and this is only open during shopping hours. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Street level public toilets are badly needed. Residents understand that there is soon to be an automated public toilet installed in Lymington Avenue. This is a welcome development but will barely scratch the surface of the problem, as many, perhaps most, of the potential users will be too frightened to use it for fear of being shut in, of the door opening unexpectedly, or of other kinds of mechanical malfunction. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Both Wood Green and Turnpike Lane Tube Stations should have staffed street level public toilets nearby. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see C.1.] All of these unofficial ‘pissoirs’ should be deep-cleaned (this means an anti-bacterial washdown) at least once a week, with the worst spots receiving daily treatment. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see C.3.] As unstaffed public toilets are such an attractive target for thugs and vandals, the provision of three or four well-staffed and well-maintained street level public toilets, distributed at strategic points through the Town Centre, must become a high priority. The cost of staffing and maintenance of at least one of these toilets should be wholly supplied and guaranteed by the Council, while the others could be supported by an entrance charge of 20p. The Council should buy two or three of the smaller shops along the High Road for conversion into public toilets, using compulsory purchasing powers if necessary. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see C.3.] In any future Town Centre development, a staffed street level public toilet with a High Road frontage should be insisted on, perhaps as part of an S.106 agreement. The cost of staffing and maintenance could be met by a 20p entrance charge if necessary. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see C.4.] The existing public toilet at Turnpike Lane Station, periodically opened and then closed due to vandalism, should be converted into a staffed public pay-toilet (and extended if necessary). At Wood Green Station it would be appropriate to purchase a nearby shop for conversion into a staffed public pay toilet. As London Transport, to their shame, have never acknowledged a responsibility to provide public toilets in every tube station, they or TfL should be approached for funding. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see C.2.] The Council should investigate whether it is possible to make it a condition for all sit-down food and drink establishments that their toilets are available for use (obviously responsible use) by the passing public. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> PPG17 (July 2002), quoted in para 1.12 of the GLA __‘Guide to Preparing Open Space Strategies - best practice guidance of the London Plan’__ [Greater London Authority, March 2004] states that //‘open space should mean all spaces that are of public value. The PPG17 typology illustrates the broad range of open spaces, which includes elements of the townscape such as squares and areas of water such as rivers. Consideration should also be given to the quality of linkages between open spaces, **including the promotion of a network of open spaces**, and the potential to use vacant and derelict land as temporary open spaces’// 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Wood Green Town Centre already has its own, officially unrecognised, hard-surfaced ‘**//network of open spaces//**’, comprising: - Spouters Corner,  - the Morrisons forecourt/bus stop (potentially!),  - the Library forecourt, - Boots Corner,  - the Lymington Avenue mall, - Dovecote Avenue, - the Turnpike Lane Station/Green Lanes forecourt. However, the care and attention spent on these spaces individually is erratic, unfocussed, and uncoordinated. This is partly because they have never been seen as a group or network. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Several of these open spaces have traditionally been used by a wide variety of campaigning groups to set up stalls and distribute leafles, a situation of which residents generally approve, providing of course that behaviour is neither offensive nor aggressive and that the groups’ positioning causes no obstruction to pedestrians. In recent weeks however, a number of these groups have been subjected to unprovoked harassment and intimidation by the Council’s Heavy Enforcement Team, despite the facts that the groups’ behaviour was neither offensive nor aggressive and their stalls were most definitely not causing an obstruction to the free flow of pedestrian traffic. These incidents were witnessed by shocked local residents. Bearing in mind the frequent incidents of antisocial conduct throughout the Town Centre which really do need ‘Heavy Enforcement’ (eg. pavement cycling, littering, illegal and dangerous parking, spitting on the pavement, loud music from shops, aggressive and intimidating posturing from groups of youths, illegal pavement stalls), this behaviour of Council employees is clearly an unacceptable misuse of resources. The officers’ conduct was furthermore a direct attack on those rights of political and religious expression which are specifically protected by UK law, the European Convention, and the United Nations. **Suggested Action** 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see D.2.] The above group of itemised open spaces should henceforth be strategically considered as a single balanced network. Each space should have its own character and contribute something different to Town Centre life, but all must be dominated by a strong people-friendly ethos, which means that they must be safe, comfortable, attractive and welcoming. There should be plenty of comfortable well-maintained seating, plenty of well-maintained and protected trees, other types of greenery where appropriate, and an absolute ban on vehicles. Where possible, the spaces should be made more family oriented with perhaps a few childrens’ play areas, robust child-friendly sculptures, etc. (If sculptures are considered, full public consultation is essential) 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see D.3.] Subject to the traditional and reasonable conditions of civilised behaviour and non-obstruction, political and religious stalls and leafletting must be allowed in all the Town Centre’s open spaces, and not corralled into those small areas which the Heavy Enforcement Team choose to designate as ‘Free Speech Areas’. Subject to these same conditions of civilised conduct, a tolerant view should be taken of ‘genuine’ buskers (ie. those whose activity is not just thinly disguised begging). 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In the last two decades the problem of anti-social adults and youths cycling on public footways has grown much worse. Although the practice has spread everywhere, it is particularly bad along the High Road due to the road narrowing and pavement widening implemented in recent years. Pavement cycling is an illegal activity which is dangerous and extremely intimidating for all pedestrians, especially the elderly, the infirm, the visually impaired, and for those walking with small children. Despite the widespread anger expressed by residents on this issue at Area Assemblies and other such meetings, the Council and the police have done absolutely nothing to alleviate the situation. On the contrary, by building well-meant but ludicrously ineffective short lengths of road-to-pavement cycle path next to some recently installed pelican crossings (eg. near Argos) the Council has actually been encouraging this sociopathic behaviour. (See 19.2) **Suggested Action** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Vans and cars are frequently parked on the Town Centre pavements, causing much damage to the paving stones and much inconvenience and danger to pedestrians,. The worst offenders are the drivers of Securicor-type vans and shopfitters’ vans, who often have the effrontery to park the whole of their vehicle on the footway, with, what is more, the apparent blessing of the Highways Department and the parking wardens. There has also been an increase in the incidence of police vans and police cars parking unnecessarily on the pavement when there is a perfectly adequate parking space only a few yards away on the road. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Because of this irresponsible practice of pavement parking, residents recognise that in many places kerbside railings or bollards are necessary. At present however, there seems to be no consistent logic in the decisions as to which of these options is chosen. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see F.1.] Strict and punitive enforcement is an absolute necessity here. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see F.2.] Wherever possible bollards should be used in preference to railings, as these are on balance less visually alienating. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see F.2.] Bollards and railings should be of uniform and harmonious style, to avoid the ‘cobbled together’ look of much of the present streetscape. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At many of the Pelican Crossings along the High Road the light activation delay (ie: the gap between pressing the button and the red light activation) is much too long, up to 50 seconds in some cases. This causes pedestrians to become impatient and question whether the lights are working, which tempts them to take risks. This also means of course that by the time the ‘green man’ is activated the pedestrians have often already crossed and so no-one is actually waiting, which causes unnecessary delay and irritation to the drivers, thereby endangering all road users. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There is seldom enough time for even able-bodied pedestrians to cross before the lights start to change, let alone the elderly, the infirm and those walking with small children. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see G.1.] The light activation delay at all Pelican Crossings should be between five and ten seconds. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see G.2.] At least five seconds should be added to the time allowed for pedestrians to cross before the lights start to change. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In 1999, fifteen of the twenty-one mature trees in Wood GreenTown Centre were chopped down without any consultation with local people. These trees formed an essential environmental counterbalance to the de-humanising effect of the busy traffic, the concrete and brick surfaces, and the hard-nosed commercialism, all of which are the inevitable by-products of a modern city shopping centre. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Residents were told that the destroyed trees would be replaced with 47 rowan, cherry and pear trees. Even if this promise had been carried out, the new smaller varities would have been no substitute for the magnificent trees which had been torn down. The promise however was not carried out, and at the latest count the Town Centre has no more than eleven new trees planted since the arboreal blitzkrieg of 1999. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see H.1 ] In future, representatives from local Residents’ Associations must be given full rights of participation in all decisions and decision-making bodies which significantly affect the Wood Green Town Centre streetscape. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see H.2.] A major new programme of tree planting should be started. For aesthetic as well as ecological reasons, the new trees should include some larger varieties amongst the smaller varieties. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> An epidemic of forty-one lamppost advertising banners has broken out in Wood Green Town Centre. This is in blatant contravention of the Council’s own policy against unnecessary street clutter, as stated in the recently agreed ‘Streetscape Manual’. As part of the urban scene, these banners act like an environmental migraine, interrupting vistas and acting to reduce architectural variety and historical character. To inflict these lamppost banners on the whole of the Town Centre with absolutely no local consultation is unacceptable. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The recently installed free-standing on-pavement illuminated advertising stands are also a wholly unnecessary addition to Wood Green’s street clutter. The supposed benefits of any rental revenue to the Council are certainly cancelled out by the negative effect these large obstructions have on all aspects of the Town Centre’s environment. They also flout the Council’s declared commitment to energy saving. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see I.1.]The lamppost banners should be removed. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see I.2.]The advertising stands should be removed. Failing this, those stands causing most obstruction should be removed and the rest used exclusively to advertise locally organised events, local facilities, and locally relevant resident-led campaigns. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Numerous areas throughout the Town Centre are used as pigeon feeding points. Whatever one’s views on the presence of feral pigeons in our town centres, there is no doubt that the widespread but illegal practice of feeding these birds with dumped bagfuls of seed or bread encourages them to congregate in large numbers, and furthermore attracts rats and other vermin. The footway at these feeding points (eg. outside Morrisons) becomes encrusted with slippery unhygienic pigeon droppings, and large patches of the area’s grassed open spaces (eg. Ducketts Common) are rendered worn and infertile. The excrement from so many pigeons dirties and degrades the fabric of local buildings, necessitating rows of ugly anti-pigeon spikes to be fixed to ledges and perch-points. **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see J.1.] The worst affected pavements must be deep-cleaned (this means an anti-bacterial scrub and washdown) on a frequent and regular basis. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see J.1.] Strict enforcement of the anti-litter laws is probably the only answer. A thorough ‘warn and educate’ campaign should be launched, followed by a number of exemplary well publicised prosecutions if the repeated warnings prove ineffective. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In wet weather, deep puddles appear at many places along the High Road, both on footway and road, due to the poorly maintained drains. This has worsened since the pavement widening schemes were introduced. **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see K.1.] Thames Water must be energetically badgered at the highest level into implementing a thorough overhaul of the Wood Green drainage system 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Over the last five years Wood Green has seen a rash of underfoot pavement lights wherever a new ‘improvement’ is installed. Regardless of whether they look good or bad, and setting ecological considerations aside, these lights are clearly a farcical design choice without an accompanying commitment to maintain them and an operational mechanism in place to monitor and replace them when necessary. In the area covered by this audit, residents counted 65 underfoot pavement lights of which a total of 7 are still working. Residents are not aware of a single instance of a broken light being renewed or repaired in the five years or so of this design fad. **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see K.1.] If a permanent monitoring and repair mechanism is not put into place forthwith, we urge that all these lights are removed and paved over. They will otherwise remain as a perpetual reminder of the myopic laxity of Wood Green’s streetscape planning. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Finger-style pedestrian signposts have been placed at a number of the junctions; a good idea, in theory. The information contained on these signposts however, is inadequate, out of date, and on occasion somewhat mysterious. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The single most common direction sought by visitors from local people is to the Tube Stations. There is no such information on the signposts. Does this mirror the policy of the Las Vegas casinos in having no visible windows or exit signs? 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Council ‘One Stop Shop’ referred to on the signage no longer exists. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The final direction to the ‘Cultural Quarter’ points south along Alexandra Road, which if tenaciously followed for five miles would indeed take the culture-hungry visitor very close to the London South Bank Centre! 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On the Dovecote Avenue signpost the ‘fingers’ are periodically turned round by mischief-makers. **Suggested Action** 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see M.2.] Both Tube Stations should be signposted, with clear information as to which is the nearer. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see M.3.] The information should be updated as and when necessary. Is there anyone responsible for this? 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see M.4.] The ‘Cultural Quarter’ should be signposted all the way to the Chocolate Factory complex (ie: at the Alexandra Road/Martins Walk junction and the Mayes Road/Coburg Road junction). 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see M.5.] The signposts should be modified so that it is impossible to turn round the fingers without specialist equipment. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There is very little evidence in the Town Centre that Wood Green’s social and architectural heritage is ever given more than a glance by the Council’s Planning Department whenever developers put forward a new planning application. Ever since the demolition of the magnificent old Wood Green Library in 1973 to make way for the River Park House monstrosity, right up to the recent demolition of the Lordship Lane Congregational Chapel, a culture of developer-led philistinism seems to determine Council attitudes to local heritage. This must change while there still remain buildings and frontages worth preserving. **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see N.1.] Local Residents Associations and heritage groups such as the Hornsey Historical Society must be consulted, along with the Council’s own heritage experts, with the object of drawing up a definitive list of Wood Green Town Centre buildings and frontages worthy of preservation and/or restoration. These must be included in the Borough’s ‘Local List’ and an unequivocal commitment given by the Council’s Leadership and all the relevant Chiefs of Departments to thoroughly honour both the spirit and letter of Haringey Council’s heritage policy. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Although the Town Centre’s street cleansing regime has shown a marked improvement in recent years there are still areas of serious concern. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> After trading on Sundays the streets are left rubbish-strewn until Monday morning. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The shops’ wheeled rubbish containers are not emptied often enough, which encourages the shops to leave their excess rubbish on the pavements. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In many of the adjoining residential streets, the street cleaners frequently come on the day before the rubbish and recycling carts, which means that rubbish left or spilt onto the road and footway by the dustmen is often left there for a week. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see O.2, O.3.] Rubbish must be collected and the streets cleaned as soon as possible after trading on every day. This should apply not only to the High Road but also to the immediately adjoining residential streets. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see O.4.] In the wider residential area, the streets should be cleaned as soon as possible after the weekly rubbish collections rather than the day before. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On 28th March 2006 the Wood Green Town Centre Management submitted a detailed Environmental Report to Laurence Pratt at the Highways Dept on the state of the pavements along the High Road between the Wood Green and Turnpike Lane junctions. As well as listing 100 sites containing ‘minor’ faults, this report included separate sections (with photographs) listing 26 sites containing paving faults which were ‘considered a public safety risk’ and required ‘immediate attention.’ 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On 23rd June 2006, three months later, Parkside Malvern Residents’ Association carried out a follow-up survey of the faults itemised in the above report. Virtually none of the 100 sites containing ‘minor’ faults had been repaired. Of the 26 sites identified as a ‘public safety risk’ (ie. those containing ‘dangerously loose’, ‘dangerously broken’ or ‘dangerously uneven’ paving stones) only one, outside Argos, had been repaired. This represents a severe dereliction of civic duty by the Highways Department. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> When paving stones are replaced the new slabs are never in the same colour and material as the existing ones. Residents have been informed that this is because the company which made the original stones has gone out of business. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Even when repairs are carried out, the work is often so shoddy and careless that it barely rates as an improvement. The replacement stones frequently seem too thin and fragile for their purpose. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see P.1, P.2, P.3, P.4.] A complete and thorough overhaul of the pavements in whole of the wider Town Centre area (ie. in the area covered by this audit, not just the High Road itself) must be undertaken as a matter of urgency. Greater effort must be made to match the colour and texture of the new stones with the old. The quality of both the materials and the workmanship must be rigorously overseen by suitably qualified and professionally motivated Council officers. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see P.3.] When the next complete repaving of the Town Centre is done, guarantees should be obtained that there will be no shortage of replacement stones for at least a decade ahead. The Council must only use good quality construction companies with a proven track record and reputable suppliers known to be on a sound financial basis. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see P.1, P.2, P.3, P.4.] Systems and funding should be put in place to ensure that the more permanent features of the streetscape such as paving, street lighting, bollards, railings, bus stops, crossing points, benches are frequently monitored and promptly repaired. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Residents recognise that a busy shopping centre like Wood Green will always tend to attract such mid-to-low range criminal activities as mugging, pickpocketing, shoplifting and begging. Realistically, this means that containment and reduction will always be the target rather than complete eradication. It is to be applauded therefore that over the past decade there has been a modest but noticeable reduction in street muggings. Residents are also pleased to note that over the same period there has been a significant decrease in the amount of street begging, especially of the ‘aggressive’ variety. These improvements are probably the result of increased CCTV coverage and a good working relationship between police, PCSOs, community wardens, shop security staff and the Wood Green Town Centre management. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The working relationship between the police and local Neighbourhood Watches has however been extremely patchy. This seems to be due to a very variable level of individual police commitment and competence, as well as the eternal problem of fluctuating budgetary provision. Some Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators have found it extraordinarily difficult to persuade their designated police contact officers to return telephone calls. With the new Noel Park Safer Neighbourhood Team in place, residents look forward to a more fruitful relationship. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Despite the modest reduction noted above [see Q.1 ] in some types of crime, Wood Green Town Centre is still a place where many people, especially the elderly, feel very nervous and unsafe. This is largely because of the increase in other types of low-level crime and anti-social behaviour, for example: ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> adults and youths cycling on the pavement ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> aggressive posturing by groups of youths ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> loud and aggressive behaviour by large groups of schoolchildren after school ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> street littering ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> fly-tipping ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: shopowners who leave rubbish outside their rubbish containers, particularly in back alleys ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> dog fouling ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> public spitting ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> public urination ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> pigeon feeding ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> illegal parking, especially by vans and cars on pavements ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> driving the wrong way down one-way streets ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> illegal pavement stalls ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> loud music from shops and the UKCG church (next to Sainsburys) directed onto the street 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There are still far too many areas in the Town Centre, especially in the back alleys [see B. and B(appendix) ], which either attract serious criminal activities such as drug dealing and drug taking or act as escape routes for muggers, shoplifters etc. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see Q.2 ] Designated police contact officers must always return calls made to them by Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see Q.3 ] To achieve an ambience in which people feel safer and more relaxed, police officers, PCSOs, community wardens and Council enforcement officers must put far greater efforts into reducing the continual aggravation caused by this anti-social behaviour and low-level criminality. The following action is suggested: ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __pavement cycling__. Action: poster and media campaign, followed by exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __aggressive posturing by groups of youths__. Action: visible police presence. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __noisy and aggressive behaviour by large groups of schoolchildren__ __after school__. Action: visible police presence and liaison with schools. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __street littering__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __fly-tipping__. Action: enforcement by fines and exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __shopowners who leave rubbish outside their rubbish containers, particularly in back alleys__ - Action: enforcement by fines and exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __dog fouling__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __public spitting__. Action: poster and media campaign. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __public urination__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __pigeon feeding__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __illegal parking, especially on pavements__. Action: enforcement by police, PCSOs, and parking wardens. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __driving the wrong way down one-way streets__. Action: enforcement by police. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __illegal pavement stalls__. Action: enforcement by PCSOs and Council officers, especially on Saturday and Sunday. At present Sunday is a day of anarchy, with illegal traders given a completely free run. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __loud music from shops and the UCKG church directed onto the street__. Action: enforcement by PCSOs and Council officers. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see Q.4 ] Town centre CCTV coverage must be increased to include the most crime-affected back alleys [see B.and B(appendix) ]. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Bearing in mind that Wood Green Town Centre has the second busiest footfall in the whole of London, it seems bizarre that the Highways Department is at this very moment actually __narrowing__ the pavement at various places along the High Road! **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Instead of narrowing pavements, the Council should be __widening__ them. The priorities for pavement widening are: a. the eastside footway between Whymark Avenue and Westbury Avenue, b. the eastside footway between Gladstone Avenue and Shopping City, c. the footway at the northside Lordship Lane bus stop. **__ PART TWO __** ** ‘__A Wood Green Walkabout’__ ** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Although the pedestrian crossing facilities have been much improved over their condition 30 years ago, when they were non-existent, they are still far from ideal. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Because of the road widths and traffic density, vehicles are often left stranded in the open central area well after the lights have changed, which means that they can still be driving over the pedestrian crossings even when the ‘green man’ is showing. Impatient drivers are frequently seen forcing their way through crowds of crossing pedestrians. This is especially true of the eastbound Lordship Lane crossing and the southbound Wood Green High Road crossing. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There is a longstanding problem here of cars illegally turning right from Station Road into Wood Green High Road. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 2.2.] A thorough review is needed of all the pedestrian crossing arrangements at this junction, with the overriding aim of improving pedestrian safety. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 2.3.] Increased enforcement measures need to be put in place to prevent these illegal right turns? Does the signage need improving? Would flashing signs be appropriate? 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 2.4.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This is a very fine example of the classic 1930s Bauhaus-inspired tube station designs of Charles Holden but has suffered from inadequate maintenance for many decades. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Turnpike Lane Tube Station, also designed by Charles Holden, is a Grade 2 listed building and partly because of this has received a multi-million pound restoration and refurbishment. Wood Green Tube Station is an equally fine building which deserves similar consideration but will never be properly treated until it too becomes Grade 2 listed. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 3.2.] Haringey Council and its officers must energetically seek Grade 2 listed status for Wood Green Tube Station. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This broad piazza, with its magnificent old plane tree, has considerable potential as a community activity space but has never received any serious design attention, nor are residents aware of any current plans to make this now sterile space contribute positively to the life of the Town Centre. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The farce of the appearing and disappearing Police Box must be commented on as it exemplifies so well the Town Centre’s lack of properly organised long term stewardship. After three ineffectual years, it was demolished in April 2006. Even its removal was the cause of local derision because of the gap of two months between the erection of scaffold screens around it and its final demolition. Residents realise that this largely unstaffed half-baked gesture towards community policing may not have been entirely the Council’s fault, but its presence was never more than a joke, encouraging cynicism about the Council’s ability and will to fund and carry through even its better ideas. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The ludricously dilapidated, bollard-surrounded, ex-Christmas tree space, with the battered electrical box at its centre, is even more of a local joke than the Police Box. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There are numerous odd scraps of utility street furniture strewn about the space with no thought as to placement or appearance, and certainly no thought as to the down-market message this sends to potential shoppers. There are no less than three different styles of rubbish bin (not counting the Macdonalds bin), as well as the large rusty electrical utility box sited near (but not near enough!) to the cinema. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The newish bus stop is already looking dirty and down-at-heel. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 4.1.] A study should be made of possible community uses, preferably both frequent and regular, for the piazza. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 4.3.] A permanent solution needs to found for the ex-Christmas tree space. The preferred solution would be for a permanent conifer to be planted here which can be decorated and lit up every Christmas. If, as residents have been told, the subsoil is indeed full of rubble and concrete from the site’s long demolished public toilet, then the tree should be planted in a raised bed. Alternatively a piece of public art should be commissioned in active consultation with local residents. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 4.4.] The owners of the rusty utility box near the cinema must be made or paid to replace it and then re-site it unobtrusively so that it doesn’t dominate the space in such an absurd fashion. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 4.4.] Renew, standardize and re-site the rubbish bins. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 4.5.] The bus stop should be thoroughly cleaned at frequent and regular intervals, and renovated as necessary. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 4.6.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Whereas on the High Road frontage of this Complex some attempt has been made to echo imaginatively in glass the classic shape of Wood Green Tube station, with at least some partial success, the lack of consideration given to the other three sides is scandalous, especially bearing in mind that the building stands right on the edge of the renowned conservation area of the Noel Park Estate? 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> These 6-storey high walls form three monotonous, featureless and oppressive cliff faces. The blind wall overhanging Lordship Lane is a particular affront to the tens of thousands of Tottenham people who use this busy thoroughfare every day, as well as to the residents living in the Victorian houses opposite The appallingly ugly service area in Redvers Road gapes like an open metal wound in the flat stone walls. Was this ever a real part of any real architect’s real design? 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Even worse, in Buller Road (see also Part Two 13 ), developers and planning officers have in effect colluded to create an all-too-predictable crime hotspot. In its short life, this newly configured gloomy street has become a notorious canyon of violence and drug-dealing, already notching up one murder. With a new development expected on the other side of Redvers Road, local residents wait nervously to see if the same mistakes are going to be made again. Is another dismal canyon going to be created to further blight the area? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Showcase Cinema occupies a prestigious site, important to Wood Green’s image. It is therefore unfortunate that the cinema’s proprietor could do no better than erect such incongruous, primitive and low-tec ‘forthcoming attractions’ signs at the entrance. The signs should at least have been curved, to follow the shape of the glass frontage. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 5.1.] Lessons must be learnt. Officers and Councillors must insist that any future development is sensitively designed on __all__ sides, with full consideration given to to the social, aesthetic and environmental effect of any new building on those living and working at its back or sides. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 5.2.] The blank wall overhanging Lordship Lane could be much improved by imaginative decoration. Why not a weatherproof art work depicting some aspect of Wood Green’s past? Why not a bas-relief depicting moments of cinematic history? All of this must be done in active consultation with local residents 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 5.4.] Pressure should be brought to bear on the cinema’s management to upgrade their signage to West End quality. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Berners Road junction has both maintenance and pedestrian safety issues. At busy periods, cars park right across the pedestrian crossing point on both sides, forcing pedestrians to walk into the Lordship Lane traffic flow. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Berners Road junction pavement buildout into Lordship Lane only has two flimsy kerbside railing posts to keep vehicles off. Both have been knocked about by cars etc. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Throughout the day the pavement at the Lordship Lane eastbound bus stop is frequently blocked by hoards of people waiting for buses, often resulting in chaotic and angry scenes. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 6.1.] At the Berners Road junction the single yellow lines should be immediately replaced by double yellow lines, and consideration given to other possible measures (preferably road narrowing) to prevent cars from parking across the pedestrian crossing points. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 6.2.] In such a vulnerable position, the railing posts should be replaced by heavy duty bollards. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 6.3.] An urgent study needs to be made of ways of properly managing this overcrowded bus stop area. Would an extra bus stop and some pavement widening be feasible and effective? 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 6.4.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Six months after the destruction of the 1864 Congregational Chapel at 725-733 Lordship Lane, Wood Green’s oldest large building and a grand example of the period’s Chapel architecture, no Council officer has come forward to admit responsibility for this act of civic vandalism and explain why it was done so precipitously and with absolutely no local consultation. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This lack of transparency raises extremely worrying questions about the relationship between Haringey’s planning officers and powerful developers like Paul Simon, the eventual purchaser of the site. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> All three of Paul Simon’s massively over-intensive planning applications for this site, including the 16 storey tower block, were drafted in consultation with officers from the Council’s Planning Department. **Suggested Action** 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 7.1.] Responsibility for the demolition should be taken by the officers involved, a full explanation demanded from them, and sanctions taken if the explanation is unsatisfactory or unforthcoming. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 7.2.] If necessary, Council policy should be changed so that local residents, local Ward Councillors and local Residents Associations are given at least three months written notice of any demolition which is going to significantly affect the townscape. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 7.3.] Planning Department officers must be made to recognise that they are employed above all to serve the existing residents of Haringey, who have made it very clear that the current headlong drive towards intensification is utterly unacceptable. Officers must therefore resist the ‘town cramming’ desires of powerful developers by all possible means and with all possible force. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At the 25 metre wide entrance to the Bus Garage, the pavements and pedestrian crossing points are a hazardous unsightly patchwork, in places completely ravaged by buses driving onto the pavement and crushing the kerbstones down to gutter level. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The siting of the northbound bus stop, a mere five yards away from Bus Garage turn-in, is dangerous. Pedestrians crossing the turn-in when a bus is parked at the stop cannot see when a second bus is suddenly going to swoop round the first one to enter the Garage. Equally, a crossing pedestrian cannot be seen by the turning bus driver. Why was the bus stop sited here? Residents suspect that the only real reason was to facilitate an easy end-of-shift driver change-over. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Why is the large BT box 22 sited transversely almost exactly in the middle of the footway, causing maximum inconvenience to pedestrians? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Since ‘The Three Jolly Butchers’ pub was renamed ‘Monaghan’s Tavern’, there has been little visible indication of the colourful and historic name of this little hill. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The existing pedestrian crossing point at the Watsons Road junction is appallingly sited, in the most dangerous possible place. Vehicles tend to cut into this side road at very high speed. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The pointless bit of slip road ouside Monaghan’s Tavern and Levenes Solicitors is used only for parking and reduces the whole area to a car-blighted mess. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Opposite the Bus Garage, at the base of the ugly electricity sub-station building there is a strangely ramshackle seating area. There are two adjacent benches; one is very old and broken, while the other, in excellent condition, is a gift dedicated to the memory of ‘Dolly Pope’. These are book-ended by two lengths of rusty scaffold-pole railings. The neglected state of this well-used seating area is not only offensive to local people, but must be especially offensive to those relatives or friends of the late Dolly Pope who so generously donated the bench to the people of Wood Green in her memory. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners and on-pavement advertising display stands. **Suggested Action** 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.1.] The road and footway surfaces at the Bus Garage entrance must be thoroughly overhauled and remodelled to give maximum priority to pedestrian safety. Arriva should make it crystal clear to their bus drivers, either by signage or other means, that pedestrians have absolute priority here. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.2.] The bus stop must either be repositioned to a safer place, or completely removed. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.3.] The BT box must be sensibly re-sited. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.4.] Consideration should be given to some way of preserving the ‘Jolly Butchers’ name, perhaps by a commissioned art work. A wrought iron screen with a ‘Jolly Butchers’ theme, reflecting in style the wrought iron friezes in Wood Green Tube Station ticket hall, could be affixed to the large blank wall of the elecricity sub-station, or perhaps an imaginatively designed plaque or mosaic on the same theme. 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.5.] The pedestrian crossing point must be moved back away from Green Lanes to the pavement immediately in front of Monaghan’s Tavern. 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.6.] The slip road should be paved over, completely pedestrianised, and the whole area made into a pleasant welcoming space with benches, trees and other greenery. 15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.7.] This shamefully neglected seating area must be upgraded immediately, retaining, of course, the ‘Dolly Pope’ bench. 16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 8.8.] Remove lamppost banners and display stands. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Although strictly speaking just outside the limits of this audit, the urgency of the pedestrian safety issue at this junction makes its inclusion imperative. Bearing in mind that there are two primary schools and one secondary school within five minutes walking distance, it is quite scandalous that there have never been any pedestrian lights at the crossing points of this junction. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 9.1.] At long last, some pedestrian lights are at this moment being installed at the junction. However, this does not apply to the southern nor the northern east/west crossing points. This situation is entirely unacceptable and residents demand that __all three crossing points__ are furnished with pedestrian lights. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 9.2.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> River Park House itself is a dingy depressing monolith, many people’s candidate for the worst 20th Century building in Haringey. The situation is of course beyond remedy now, but this is all the more reason why the corner’s inadequate street lighting should not be allowed to make the area so dark and forbidding at night. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At ground level, especially near the eastbound bus stop, the building is an unkempt shambles of broken and dirty louvred ventilation outlets. This unpleasantness is exacerbated by the building’s designed-in down-draughts. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The problem of the pavement surface, which is multi-level and hillocky, has never been properly addressed in the several decades since Alexandra House was built. **Suggested Action** 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 10.1.] The street lighting needs to be greatly improved. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 10.2.] The ground level and upper ground level walls of River Park House need to be completely redesigned to improve their current look of ambient misery. The building needs an active frontage. Any redesign should therefore include a section of new retail spaces. A redesign of the building should also include an adjustment to its facade to ameliorate the down-draughts. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 10.3.] The pavement levels and surface to be sensibly reconfigured. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The ineptly named ‘Goose and Granite’ pub is a good, if unspectacular, example of Victorian pub architecture and is especially to be prized in an area where so much fine historic architecture has been brutally obliterated. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The footway between this corner and the Station Road Housing Offices is in an atrocious state, and has clearly not been renewed for several decades. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The pavement at the junction is severely broken up in places. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 11.1.] Local Listing status should be given to the pub frontage. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 11.2, 11.3.] Renovate footway. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Seen from the other side of the road, the diminutive building at the end of the covered mall extension which forms the entrance to Morrisons supermarket does nothing to fill the yawning void between The Goose and Granite pub and the three storey terracing of the Broadway Parade. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The supermarket frontage (the pavement under the extended porch) has for years been a rubbish-strewn, ill-maintained blot on the streetscape for which the Safeway management refused to take any responsibility. Early signs are that the new Morrisons management is taking a more civic-minded approach. Have they formally acknowledged that the area is indeed their responsibility, or is this just a honeymoon period? 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On the pavement under the southern end of the porch and beyond, there is a thick encrustation of pigeon droppings, making the surface underfoot both slippery and unhygienic. This is partly due to the bags of food rubbish that are frequently dumped nearby, and partly to the anti-social custom of pigeon feeding. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The alleyway between Morrisons and the Minimarket is a dirty eyesore, with the Minimarket waste bins often overflowing and with parked cars often blocking the footway. All this serves to increase the area’s mood of chaotic squalor. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The problem of street drinkers using the bus stop seats has long been a problem due to their frequently aggressive behaviour, their reluctance to use the rubbish bins, and their unwillingness to use the public toilets in the Shopping City. A marked improvement has occurred since the area was made into an alcohol-free zone, but the problem still remains. Residents fear that only when and if the adjacent Minimarket stops selling alcohol will the issue go away. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> For well over a year now, the four light poles and other lighting associated with the bus stop here have been completely dead, making the whole area even more of a miserable dingy place at night. The whole bus stop is already in a filthy and neglected state. Has no-one noticed any of this? Does anyone care? 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Thousands use this bus stop every day to go to Palmers Green and beyond, many travelling from work after using the tube. When the above problems are experienced by these potential Town Centre customers, it must all seem like a striking record of shoddy maintenance and negligent stewardship by Haringey Council and others. They will therefore of course not be eager to return to the area as regular shoppers, cinema-goers, etc. **Suggested Action** 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.1.] The Morrisons covered extension and porticoed frontage could be sensitively redeveloped to 3-4 storey office space over ground floor retail, while broadening out and enhancing the public space around the bus stop. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.2.] Formal acknowledgement should be sought from Morrisons that it is indeed their responsibility to clean, light and maintain the area under their porticoed frontage. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.3.] Morrisons must be urged to wash down and disinfect their pavement here, and the Council must do the same to the public footway. Furthermore, anti-littering laws must be strictly enforced to deter the pigeon-feeders. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.4.] Consideration needs to be given to ways of improving the space between Morrisons and the Minimarket. A brick wall and arched gate would certainly be an improvement on the concentration camp style iron fencing now in place. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.4.] Parking on the driveway must be prohibited, with strict enforcement. If possible the driveway itself should be converted into normal pedestrian-only footway and protected by bollards. 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.5.] Can the Minimarket be dissuaded from selling alcohol? 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.6.] Immediate action must be taken to restore the bus stop lighting to full working order. 15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 12.6.] The bus stop should be thoroughly cleaned at regular intervals, and renovated as necessary. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> These two roads are a bus-infested botch, not fit for human through-travel, let alone habitation. Rather than use some of the space created by the brutal destruction of the Council-owned Congregational Chapel to take the buses off the residential streets and into a purpose-designed terminus or lay-over, the Council chose to ignore its responsibilities to local people and pocket a presumably fat cheque from Paul Simon, the developers. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At present, Buller Road scarcely warrants the name of ‘road’. In an area which actively encourages late night drinking by young people, it was breathtakingly irresponsible to create such a dark half-blind alley only a few yards away. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The southside footway is urgently in need of a thorough overhaul. The kerbstones all the way along have been driven down to gutter level by buses and cars, making it very dangerous for pedestrians, especially for the elderly and disabled, who use this path a lot. Why was this very visible example of civic neglect not dealt with when the footpath opposite was built? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Gladstone House is a visually important Art Deco building, but has become extremely shabby and is badly in need of renovation and redecoration. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Gladstone House service area is a squalid dumping ground. The two large wheeled waste containers are often pushed onto the pavement to allow a car to be parked there, forcing pedestrians into the road. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - on-pavement advertising display stand. **Suggested Action** 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 13.1.] Is it too late to ameliorate the Council-created bus saturation of these streets? An urgent study with full and active resident participation needs to be made of the options still left open. If there is a solution or even a half solution to the problem, then the Council has an overriding duty to fully fund it. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 13.2.] The first priority is to improve the Buller Road street lighting. A year after the murder, why is this road still a dark and forbidding place at night? 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 13.3.] The southside footway needs a complete overhaul, with the addition of bollards and high kerbs to prevent buses and cars mounting the pavement. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 13.4, 13.5 ] Pressure needs to be exerted on the owners of Gladstone House to renovate, decorate and otherwise properly maintain their property. Local Listing status should be conferred. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 13.6 ] Remove the display stand. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> It seems extraordinary that, during decades of gradual improvements to pedestrian safety along Wood Green High Road, this extremely wide and dangerous junction has actually been allowed to become considerably __more__ dangerous. It is commonplace here to witness drivers executing ‘U-turns’, ‘O-turns’ and even ‘figure-of-8-turns’ while pedestrians are still crossing the road. From the pedestrian’s point of view, cars seem to attack from at least five different directions. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The historic stone drinking and cattle trough erected in the 19th century by the ‘Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association’ is in some need of restoration. It has been knocked sideways from its proper central position on the pedestals, is badly in need of professional cleaning, and is missing a metal (?) descriptive plate on its western end. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There are four different styles of bollard at this single junction - another example of shambolic streetscape stewardship. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - on-pavement advertising display stand. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 14.1.] Whatever else is or is not done to improve Wood Green Town Centre, making this junction safe for pedestrians must be an __absolute priority__. Road narrowing is essential here. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 14.2.] A full professional restoration of the cattle trough is needed, with a new descriptive plate affixed. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 14.3.]Decide on a bollard style, and then stick to it. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 14.4.] Remove display stand. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This eastside row of good quality mid-Victorian frontages, originally known as Gladstone Terrace and built as part of the Noel Park Estate, is generally well maintained, with the former NatWest bank, at the Gadstone Avenue junction, being a particularly handsome building. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Despite some reasonably pleasant architecture on both sides of the road, this length of footway is not comfortable to walk along; the impression created is one of being forced through a pressurised conduit towards the Shopping City. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ]- lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 15.1.] Is this part of the Noel Park Conservation Area? If not, it should be; but if this is not possible then Local Listing status should be conferred. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 15.2.] The pavement along this stretch would benefit from widening, a logical step forward as the road here is unnecessarily wide. A wider pavement with a few benches and trees would greatly improve the area’s ambience, giving it a more relaxed and people-friendly character. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 15.3.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The former Gaumont Palace cinema is an Art Deco Grade 2 listed building. However, its classic frontage is at present completely disfigured by the large crude and ugly ‘Club KO’ sign and some associated broken-down neon decoration. During the compilation of this survey the club’s proprietors painted the whole frontage black, a despicable attack on one of the few surviving treasures of Wood Green’s heritage. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Gaumont Palace stands at the centre of Broadway Parade, a pleasantly curving 1930s terrace, which is itself of good enough quality to merit protection against future redevelopment. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The humped pedestrian crossing point just south of the Gladstone Ave junction is useful, but dangerously confusing. Neither drivers nor pedestrians know what the crossing protocol is. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Outside the KFC restaurant, a tree is still missing from its circular planting bed even though it was damaged and removed years ago. The remaining hole is a hazard for pedestrians. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 16.1.] The Club KO proprietors must be forced to remove their present signage, replace it with something smaller and less gaudy, and redecorate the building in historically appropriate colours. Residents expect the strongest possible response from the Council’s enforcement officers. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 16.2.] Local Listing status for Broadway Parade should be conferred. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 16.3.] The humped pedestrian crossing point should be changed into a Zebra or Pelican Crossing. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 16.4.] The missing tree should be replaced. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 16.5.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Although the Central Library is architecturally a not unpleasant building, within a couple of years of its construction the tiles which once covered the entire east-facing balconied elevations above ground level started to drop off, and they continued to drop off to such an extent that they all had eventually to be ripped off, presumably for health and safety reasons. This remains as a very visible and damning indictment of the Council’s lack of commitment to responsible Project Management at that time. That this happened in the first place was bad enough, but that the balcony walls were then left for the ensuing decades up to the present looking as if they were afflicted with an aggressive skin disease is quite beyond belief. This is after all Haringey’s Central Library, occupying a prime prestigious site in the heart of Wood Green Town Centre, which the Council professes to be one of the finest shopping centres in North London. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Physically, the Library’s forecourt/piazza has gone through many half-hearted transformations, and still isn’t quite right, despite all along having the bonus of a delightful mature acacia tree to work around. The present multicoloured patterned blockwork works very well as far as it goes, but why was it not designed and extended to cover the whole space, right up to the new pelican crossing? 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At present this is a well used community space, affording a good proselytising opportunity for a multiplicity of campaigning groups. Residents generally welcome this and, despite the occasional instances of hate-mongering, feel that this space contributes significantly to the much sought-after goal of urban ‘vibrancy’. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The amenity value of the forecourt is marred by three very obtrusive and obstructive huge banner posts, carrying one banner each to advertise the Library and associated Shopping Arcade. Visually, these posts amount to massive overkill. The single post carrying several banners which these posts replaced was preferable. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The two alleyways on either side of the library seem to have just ‘happened’. Because neither has been designed as part of the space, they give a makeshift look to the whole area. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spacially, the two storey building between the library and the Shopping City looks like a temporary pimple, further emphasising the area’s visually makeshift character. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banner and on-pavement advertising display stand. **Suggested Action** 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 17.1.] Re-tile or re-clad the balcony walls, this time using good quality materials in the hands of competent professional tradesmen, rigorously overseen by a competent Project Manager and backed up by legally enforcible cast iron guarantees. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 17.4.] Remove all three banner posts, and replace with either a sensibly designed signpost or a single banner post carrying three banners. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 17.5.] Serious consideration needs to be given to ways of architecturally upgrading the two alleyways. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 17.7 ] Remove lamppost banner amd display stand. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This new building is architecturally and environmentally deficient in several ways. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> To the street the building presents a ‘bog standard’ square-box profile and footprint, without sculptural character. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The high vertical frontage overhangs the street like a white cliff face, an effect only partially relieved by the two-storey-high plate glass windows. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> No attempt has been made to architecturally link the two styles of the Shopping City and the adjacent Victorian frontages. The impression given is that the building has been air-lifted in from an entirely different development. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Aesthetically, the building is two storeys too high. With its square shape, three storeys would have given a much more natural transition between the two adjacent heights. The effect conveyed is one of ‘town cramming’. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> If the building really had to be this high, why weren’t the upper three floors stepped back to avoid the looming ‘canyon’ effect? 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> An opportunity has been lost here to open out the space as a refreshing contrast to the womb-like Shopping City, and to architecturally echo the space of the Library forecourt opposite. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The back and side elevations are gaunt and featureless, sadly proving that ‘back-endism’ (see Part One, A) is alive, well, and still comfortably ensconced in Haringey’s Planning Department. . **Suggested Action** 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 18.1-8] Learn the lessons! 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The new Pelican Crossing between the library and the Shopping City is a welcome improvement to the area’s connectivity, and is much appreciated by residents and shoppers. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In light of the previous point, it is especially disappointing that the crossing designers should have seen fit to build the two adjacent short lengths of cycle path on the footway. These were presumably intended to enable cyclists to use the crossing legally. In the two years since the crossing was installed however, not a single cyclist has been sighted using the cycle paths for this purpose. Instead these absurdly ineffective tracks are increasingly being used as an easy way for the more selfish cyclists to transfer from the road to the pavement, on which they then continue their journey, dodging aggressively between frightened pedestrians. Furthermore, because it is in a channel lower than the pavement, the eastside cycle path is a significant hazard for the elderly and visually impaired, and, having no effective drainage, it also becomes a major puddle trap in wet weather. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 19.2.] Residents are very much in favour of a properly designed cycle path system which forms part of a coherent Transport and Highways strategy and does not in any way threaten pedestrian safety, but these tokenistic fragments of cycle path should be removed and paved over immediately before the one on the east side causes serious injury to an elderly person. The west side cycle path area should be built up and incorporated into a widened footway. The green ‘cyclists can cross’ indicators should also be removed from the pedestrian lights. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Shopping City was built in the mid-1970s, and its oppressive appearance has never been popular with local residents. While the use of brick as opposed to concrete was generally welcomed, why was plain dark red with a dark red mortar chosen as the colour in preference to something lighter and more in keeping with the paler and more varied tones of the adjacent Victorian and Edwardian houses in the High Road? The unadorned layers of open-sided car parks are a hangover from the once trendy ‘Brutalist’ school of architecture. And ‘brutal’ indeed is their visual message. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> For both pedestrians and drivers there is a very real Health and Safety problem with the multi-storey car parks which overhang the pavements to the north of the road bridge. Objects are frequently thrown over the car park walls onto the pavement below. One of the worst incidents occurred about two years ago, when a supermarket shopping trolley was thrown from an upper level onto the pavement just outside the Breakbar cafe, an act which could clearly have had fatal consequences. In an earlier year during very cold weather a large lump of solid ice was thrown from the car park at a bus, breaking the driver’s windscreen. During the preparation of this audit, a person committed suicide by jumping off the top level car park and crashing onto the pavement only a few yards away from where the shopping trolley had landed earlier. This tragedy occurred at a busy time of the day, and it was therefore only chance that prevented two deaths instead of one. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> From a car park on the east side, a large square-section metal ventilation pipe seems to have disgorged copious amounts of black oil onto the red brickwork. Is this an ongoing problem? Why hasn’t it been dealt with and the brickwork cleaned up? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Well over a year ago the old brown kerbside railings started to be replaced with the new stainless steel capped railings which feature elsewhere in the High Road. The contractors started with the railings outside Argos and then stopped after a few yards. The gap between the old and the new was patched up by a section of junkyard railing, fixed at a drunken angle to the two ends with untrimmed nylon ties. And this is how it has remained ever since.... an extraordinary example of civic sloth, in the very heart of the Town Centre! 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> About two years ago the original over-the-pavement soffit lights were stripped out and replaced with smart blue neons, all that is except for the stretch from Boots corner to the southernmost Shopping City entrance. Along this stretch the old lights were stripped out, the bare concrete soffit was painted white, but no new lights were installed. On the stretch of soffit that continues up Alexandra Road and into Martins Walk, the old shabby lights were left intact, as they were also on the lower soffit of the Pizza Hut corner on the other side of the bridge. Residents understand from the Shopping City Management that this refurbishment was not completed because they ran out of the new light fittings! This and the railings fiasco mentioned above (4) both typify the half-baked parsimonious mindset which has blighted so much of Wood Green Town Centre. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The blue-grey decorative logos and plastic gizmos which have been added to the Shopping City exterior in recent years look pallid, flimsy and cheapskate. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The humped pedestrian crossing point just south of the bridge is useful, but dangerously confusing. Neither drivers nor pedestrians know what the crossing protocol is. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Up until 1999, on each of the raised pavements just north of the Shopping City bridge there was a good-sized healthy tree, planted when the complex was first built. These trees greatly ameliorated the dreary functionalist facades of the development. Why were they removed in their prime and not replaced? There was also a fine-looking selection of trees on the pavements to the south of the bridge. Why were these removed in their prime and then only partially replaced with smaller and less handsome varieties? 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Along the east kerbside between the bridge and the Alexandra Road junction lights, there is a peculiar staccato sequence of double section fencing with single section spaces between. This seems like an ill-considered ad hoc solution to a recognised pedestrian safety problem. Why weren’t the less ugly and less alienating stainless steel bollards used here, to match similar stretches elsewhere in the High Road? 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Breakbar cafe has repeatedly applied to the Council to place a few tables on the very wide pavement on either side of its entrance. This is a reasonable request which would improve the look and the ambience of the whole area. Despite the great width of the pavement here, all their applications have been refused on the grounds of obstruction. The owners have been told that this is Council policy and that this ruling will apply to any other such application, anywhere along the High Road, and no matter how wide the pavement. Since then the Council has allowed the erection of one of the new free-standing advertising boards immediately opposite the cafe. This causes far more obstruction to the pedestrian flow than the tables would have done and is typical of the muddled intransigence which has too often prevented progress and improvement in the Town Centre. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At night the footways under the bridge are dark and unwelcoming. This is exactly what not is not required at the main street level entrance to the Cineworld Cinema and the adjacent first floor restaurants. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Does the unused paved area between the railings and the road, outside Lloyds TSB, have a purpose? 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On a positive note, residents very much appreciate the growth in the number of coffee bars in this area. They do much to humanise some of the more de-humanising aspects of such a large shopping centre, and have become an invaluable amenity for many local people, as well as shoppers. 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter - lamppost advertising banners and on-pavement advertising display stands [see Part One I ]. **Suggested Action** 15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.2.] As a matter of urgency, in order to prevent future serious injuries to pedestrians and motorists, the open sides of the car parks should be filled in either with metal mesh fencing or unbreakable plate glass windows. The latter would be far more aesthetically acceptable, though of course more expensive. 16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.3.] The ugly metal ventilation pipe should be moved back out of sight from the pavement and the black oil marks cleaned off the brickwork. 17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.4.] The railings refurbishment must be finished off immediately. 18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.5.] The soffit light refurbishment must be finished off immediately. 19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.6.] Consideration should be given to replacing the cheap-looking logos etc, using a design format which communicates an upmarket ‘high quality’ message. 20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.7.] The humped pedestrian crossing point should be made safer by changing it to a Zebra or Pelican Crossing. 21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.8.] The two removed trees north of the bridge should be replaced. 22.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.9.] Stainless steel bollards should be used to replace the gapped fencing. 23.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.10.] The advertising stand should be removed and the cafe allowed to put out tables. 24.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.10.] Many times Councillors and Council officers have expressed the wish for the Town Centre to move upmarket, with better quality shops and a more relaxed ‘cafe culture’. One of the sure signs of a better quality area has always been, of course, cafe tables on the pavement. In many places throughout the Town Centre the pavements are wide enough for this to be appropriate and desirable, and it is absurd that cafes should be thus prevented by anachronistic red tape and bureaucratic intransigence. If this means changing Council policy, then Council policy must be changed. 25.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.11.] Residents have been told that the over-the-road bridge soffit lights are switched off because bus drivers complained that the glare from them impaired their vision. If this is the case, then improved street lighting should be installed over the footways, directed away from the road. 26.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.12.] Could this unused paved area be turned into a motor cycle or pedal cycle parking bay? 27.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 20.14.] Remove lamppost banners and display stands. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Throughout the day, and especially at busy periods, this eastern end of Alexandra Road is plunged into lawless anarchy by those motorists too lazy to use the car parks or find a legal parking space. At any busy period there are nearly always cars parked on the double yellow lines near the pedestrian crossing, and sometimes even on the crossing itself. There are frequent noisy disputes, with motorists jostling aggressively to use these illegal parking spaces. Alexandra Road is a one-way street, but residents report that there has recently been a big increase in motorists driving the wrong way, seemingly in search of parking close to the High Road. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> With vehicles coming from front and behind, and often caught between the traffic lights due to congestion, the Alexandra Road pedestrian crossing is particularly dangerous. The ‘green man’ is a very unreliable indicator of whether or not it is safe for pedestrians to cross 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Along the Alexandra Road section of the Shopping City building, the brick alcoves are used many times a day as public urinals, making that stretch of footpath a squalid stench-ridden health hazard. The problem extends also into Martins Walk. Despite many requests by individual residents and Parkside Malvern Residents Association to both the Council and the Shopping City Management, no effective measures have ever been taken to improve the situation. Bearing in mind that these alcoves are only a few yards from the busiest part of the Town Centre and very visible from there, why has no priority been given to this? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The pavement in Alexandra Road alongside the Shopping City is a patchwork mess and badly in need of renovation. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> About five years ago a pair of twenty-foot-high neon light poles were erected in the open space in front of Boots. The neon lights functioned for less than a year and then died, and have been dead ever since. Who put them up? Why are they still here? 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 21.1,2.] Road narrowing/pavement buildout measures should be put in place as a means of making the Alexandra Road crossing less hazardous for pedestrians. It could then be extended up Alexandra Road to the stretch of double yellow lines, thus making it impossible to park there. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 21.3.] As a permanent solution these alcoves, which should never have had planning permission in the first place, should be bricked-up and any associated doors brought forward. Until the above permanent solution can be implemented, these urine-soaked alcoves need to be thoroughly washed down and disinfected every day. Notices should be attached to the walls advising the offenders of the illegality of public urination and reminding them that there are public toilets in the shopping centre. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 21.4.] Renovate the paving. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 21.5.] The twin light poles should be removed. All ideas for new features of the streetscape such as this should be rigorously vetted for weakness in terms of sustainability and ease of maintenance. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 21.6.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Although the recent repaving and remodelling of this pedestrianised end of Lymington Avenue is certainly an improvement on its previous condition, could not the space have been used more imaginatively? Did it have to be so empty and sterile? 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The southside blank brick wall (with the bench and shabby utility boxes nearby) at present tends to cancel out the recent visual improvements. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 22.1.] The introduction of one or two circular raised coniferous shrubberies, similar to those in Dovecote Avenue, would considerably improve the visual environment here. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 22.2.] A semi-circular raised shrubbery could be placed in front of the blank brick wall. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This section of historic frontages, on the east of the High Road, from Lymington Avenue up to and including the fine Marks and Spencers building, and with the once-famous Wood Green Empire Theatre at its centre, is a magnificent stretch of mainly Edwardian retail architecture which must be protected at all costs if Wood Green is to retain credibility as a leading shopping centre. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Outside the Ethel Austin shop a tree is missing from its circular planting bed, which has since been (temporarily?) filled in with tarmac. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The wider sections of the eastside pavement in this section are prone to serious flooding in wet weather due to inadequate drainage. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 23.1.] A strong commitment should be given by the Council at the highest level to preserving these fine frontages. Local Listing status should be conferred. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 23.1.] The old Wood Green Empire Theatre should be commemorated by a well-designed plaque affixed to a nearby frontage. It could contain perhaps a mosaic or bas-relief illustration showing the Theatre’s appearance in its heyday. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 23.2.] Replace the tree. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 23.3.] Overhaul the drainage system. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 23.4.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dovecote Avenue, with its daily fruit, vegetable and flower stalls, represents a lively and pleasing break in the row of shop frontages. The two raised coniferous shrubberies are a potentially successful example of street landscaping. The daytime effect however is spoilt by the looming presence of the stallholders’ parked vans, which of course have to be driven illegally over the footway and the pelican crossing’s waiting area in order to get there. Is this an public amenity space or a private car park? It cannot surely be both. Much still needs to be done to rid this little piazza of its somewhat grubby and threatening ambience, especially at night and when the stall is not there. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The northside wall, with the concreted-in window, is a major factor in making the space unnecessarily depressing. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Wood Green Snooker Club windows and signage are extremely filthy. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The signpost fingers are frequently tampered with, and the information (ie ‘One Stop Shop’) is out of date. **Suggested Action** 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 24.1.] The stallholders’ vans should be parked in the Bury Road Service Yard which is only a few yards’ walk, via the back alleyway, from Dovecote Avenue. If necessary, special arrangements should be made to ensure the stallholders have their own dedicated parking space in the service yard, conveniently situated as close to their stalls as possible. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 24.2.] The northside wall of Dovecote Avenue could be covered by a decorative screen, mural, or other artwork to give a more upbeat feel to this amenity space. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 24.3.] Pressure should put on the Snooker Club to clean and renovate their windows and signage. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 24.4.] Update the signpost’s information, and permanently fix the fingers. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> With a small number of glaring exceptions, the over-the-shop frontages on this west side of the High Road consist of uneventful but pleasing Victorian terracing which harmonises well with the grander buildings of Cheapside opposite. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The two most objectionable of the exceptions mentioned above are firstly the McDonalds Restaurant building, which lies like a gaping hole in the architectural integrity of the Cheapside area, and secondly the Carphone Warehouse building (no.69), with its appalling over-the-shop frontage of what at first sight appears to be nailed-on corrugated iron. The McDonalds ‘hole’ pre-dates that company’s occupancy of the building, and their architect did at least try to minimise its negative effect by cladding the set-back upper frontage with plate mirror glass to reflect the historic Wood Green Empire Theatre frontage opposite. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The presence of McDonalds encourages much illegal parking on both sides of the road. For many this has become something of a ‘drive-in’ restaurant, with motorists parking illegally, buying their meal, and then eating it in their car before eventually dumping their rubbish on the pavement and driving off. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Brampton Park Road is an unhappy mix of small shops and residential housing, with mess from the shops and illegal parking causing much distress to residents. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On the northside corner of the Brampton Park Road junction residents are alarmed to see that the road narrowing introduced only a couple of years ago is now being partially reversed. Whatever the reason for the recent bits of road widening in the High Road, why on earth was it also necessary to widen the Brampton Park Road pedestrian crossing point? This road is a very short cul-de-sac and so the junction is mainly used by drivers entering to find an illegal parking space and then exiting when they can’t. Why is the Highways Department encouraging this activity and thereby endangering pedestrians? 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The stallholders on the corners of Courcy (fruit and veg) and Coleraine (fish) Roads are a valued local amenity, but the Council provision of after hours cleaning up is inadequate. On Saturday evenings, the Courcy Road wheeled rubbish containers are often overflowing, causing the road to be a mess on Sundays. After work the fishmonger’s ice is left to melt into the drains, causing unpleasant smells to linger. The residents were promised years ago by the Council that the area would be regularly washed down using a special vehicle, but this has never happened. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The lamppost outside Clarks shoe shop is sited almost in the centre of the relatively narrow pavement, causing a very obvious obstruction. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> On both sides of the Coleraine Road footway there is a ludicrous twenty yard tarmac no-man’s-land between the High Road paving stones and the Waldegrave Road/Coleraine Road paving stones. What happened here? 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners and on-pavement advertising display stand. **Suggested Action** 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.2.] Pressure should be brought to bear on shopowners like Carphone Warehouse to maintain and decorate their property to a minimum standard and in a style dictated by the architectural environment. Is there any way of legally introducing a penalty fine tacked onto the business rate for the worst offenders in this kind of environmental vandalism? 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.3.] The High Road in the McDonalds area needs much stricter parking regulation enforcement. Could the loading bay outside McDonalds be reduced in length? 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.4.] Brampton Park Road needs much stricter enforcement of both parking and environmental health regulations. 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.5.] The Brampton Park Road pedestrian crossing point must be restored to its previous narrower width. 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.6.] The wheeled rubbish containers used by retailers and stallholders along the High Road, must be emptied after trading on Saturdays, in addition to the existing arrangements. 15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.6.] The fishmonger’s stall area must be washed down by the Council after every day’s trading. (The fishmonger himself has no access to running water). 16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.7 ] Move the lamppost outside Clarks closer to the kerb. 17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.8 ] Complete the paving of Coleraine Road. 18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 25.9.] Remove lamppost banners and display stand. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This eastside stretch of High Road frontages is generally of a low grade ramshackle character, with those to the south of British Home Stores being in particularly bad shape. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The long low building which houses British Home Stores etc is not old, but the rough dark grey cladding is looking much the worse for wear, and always did look the cheapest option. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The bus stop just north of the Whymark Avenue junction has been left stranded in mid-pavement by the road narrowing, causing unnecessary obstruction to pedestrians on this busy footway. The bus stop to the south of Whymark Avenue causes even more obstruction because the footway is too narrow here and the bus stop is very busy. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The wider sections of the eastside pavement in this section are prone to serious flooding in wet weather due to inadequate drainage. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners and on-pavement advertising display stand. **Suggested Action** 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 26.1.] The stretch of eastside frontages to the south of British Home Stores is the only sizeable section of Wood Green Town Centre which could be said to be in urgent need of redevelopment. **However....** any such redevelopment would need to be of modest scale and sensitively designed to fit in with the surrounding area. A new development which substantially exceeded the height of the three storey frontages opposite would be completely unacceptable to the overwhelming majority of local people. Such a development would destroy the unique, high quality ambience created by the classic Turnpike Lane Tube Station, the well designed Bus Station, the improved Ducketts Common and the good quality frontages opposite, and would therefore be fiercely resisted by Haringey residents far and wide. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 26.2.] The replacement of the present cladding on the British Home Stores etc building with a decent quality pale marble, with some upgrading of the upper line of fenestration, would immeasurably improve the look of what is not, after all, a badly proportioned building. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 26.3.] The bus stops should be re-sited closer to the kerb. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 26.3.] If the block from Whymark Avenue to Westbury Avenue is redeveloped, the chance should be seized to widen the pavement by setting the shops further back. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 26.4.] Overhaul the drainage system. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 26.5.] Remove lamppost banners and display stand. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This row of westside frontages is of excellent quality, varied, full of interesting detail, and pleasantly set off by the three fine mature plane trees. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> One of the most interesting details, the set of three domed lead-roofed bay windows which take up half of the above-shop frontage of the Burger King restaurant, is sadly in need of much repair. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners and on-pavement advertising display stand. **Suggested Action** 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 27.1.] This good quality stretch of frontages should be given Local Listing status. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 27.2.] If the cost of restoration of the bay windows is beyond what could reasonably be expected of a retailer in a non-listed building, is there a funding source available which would enable the Council or the Burger King management to commission a full restoration? 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 27.3.] Remove lamppost banners and display stand. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Over recent decades the pedestrian crossing facilities have generally been much improved. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> However, the eastbound Turnpike Lane light-controlled pedestrian crossing is three lanes wide, which is unacceptable for such a busy junction. Negotiating a crossing this wide is very unnerving, even for the young and able-bodied. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The junction has no less than four different styles of railings, excluding those around Ducketts Common. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 28.2.] Narrow the crossing to two lanes. Any consequent slowdown in the traffic flow must be considered a necessary inconvenience, for pedestrian safety is paramount. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 28.3.] Sort out the ridiculous railings situation. The same style must be used throughout the wider Town Centre area (ie. the area covered by this study). 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 28.4.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Although Turnpike Lane, with its unique and colourful ambience, is indisputably part of the wider Wood Green shopping centre and makes a valuable contribution to the area’s total retail offer, it has never been treated as such by the Council. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The new Pelican Crossing near the Willoughby Road junction has no ‘green man’ indicators visible while the pedestrians face forward to cross the road and none are visible while they are actually crossing the road. This is confusing and therefore dangerous for the pedestrian users, who should be aware of the traffic lights’ current status for the whole duration of their crossing. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The southside entrance of the above-mentioned Pelican Crossing also serves as the driveway to the rear of Capital Accomodation, an extraordinary piece of planning lunacy! 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There are often piles of rubbish heaped untidily onto the footway by some retailers, causing a hazardous and unpleasant obstruction for shoppers. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In the long stretch between the Willoughby Road junction Pelican Crossing and the Alexandra Road junction Pelican Crossing there are no pedestrian crossing facilities. As a result, hundreds of times a day pedestrians who want to cross Turnpike Lane take their lives into their hands by dodging through the very busy traffic. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Objectionable new street clutter [see Part One I ] - lamppost advertising banners. **Suggested Action** 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 29.1.] In future there must be no plans or studies of Wood Green Town Centre without Turnpike Lane included as a vitally important adjunct to it. 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 29.2.] The Pelican Crossing should be modified by adding the two ‘green man’ indicators as suggested. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 29.3.] Permission (if it exists!) for Capital Accomodation to use the Pelican Crossing entrance as a driveway should be withdrawn immediately. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 29.4.] Ways should be looked at of re-addressing the admittedly thorny problem of retailers’ waste accumulation. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 29.5.] There need to be at least two more pedestrian crossings in this long stretch of road. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 29.6.] Remove lamppost banners. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> This is a fine-looking park with many magnificent trees. In the last decade it has in some respects been significantly improved from a condition of considerable neglect. Particularly successful are the very well used basketball courts which replaced a couple of poor and under-used tennis courts which were inappropriate for the needs of the area. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The perimeter railings are badly in need of re-painting. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Bizarrely, the seating and the rubbish bins seem to have been placed as far apart as possible. Is this going to improve the litter situation? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Pigeon feeding is a particularly serious problem on the Common, causing at least one large patch of grassland to become bare and presumably infertile. 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Some drivers use the entrance opposite Hampden Road to park their cars on the Common. 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> There is not enough seating in the southern half of the Common. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The general level of day-to-day maintenance is still poor. **Suggested Action** 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 30.2.] Paint the railings. 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 30.3.] Move the rubbish bins close to the benches. 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 30.4.] Warn the pigeon feeders and then prosecute them if they persist. 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 30.5.] Re-instate the rising bollard which once stood at the Hampden Road entrance. 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 30.6.] Install more seating (with adjacent rubbish bins, please!) in the southern half of the Common. 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 30.7.] Improve general level of day-to-day maintenance 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Tube Station is an inspirational example of the classic 1930s tube station designs of Charles Holden and residents are delighted that it has at last received a well-deserved restoration and face-lift. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Residents welcome the fairly recent good quality remodelling and refurbishment of the Bus Station, and note with pleasure that considerable effort has been made to harmonise the design and materials with the classic Tube Station next door. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Much could easily be done to make the wide paved space between the Tube Station and Green Lanes more welcoming and people-friendly. **Suggested Action** 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 31.3.] Plant two or three trees and install a few benches. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The prominently placed two storey detached house, at the near point of this triangular cluster of shops, has charm and character and should be retained, despite the restaurant’s ugly flue pipe which disfigures it at present. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The group of shops on this little ‘island’ seems successful and lively, and the scale of the block is about right for its position between the Tube and Bus Stations and the Westbury Avenue shops opposite. However, the buildings are generally shabby and ill-kempt. **Suggested Action** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 32.2.] A modest upgrading, cosmetic rather than structural, of this area is appropriate, but only if the present range of shops can be retained. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The area has a number of on-going problems, including: - litter and fly-tipping - criminal activity  - vehicles exiting from Langham Rd onto Westbury Ave ignoring the ‘no entry’ sign - cars, vans and minicabs parking illegally  **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 33.1.] West Green Residents Association, in partnership with the West Green Neighbourhood Office, has been granted funds which will enable the designing-out of most of these problems. Their proposed scheme includes the following structural changes: - closing off the Westbury Avenue/Langham Road junction - realigning the Westbury Avenue kerb and paving over part of the existing Langham Road carriageway to create a distinct and attractive pedestrian zone with trees and seating - developing a cul-de-sac on Langham Road for cars to enter and exit easily. These proposals will greatly improve the area by making it safer and more welcoming. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The northside pavement by the shops is in a very bad way. This is because 75% of the footway width is owned by the shopkeepers as forecourt, and clearly they do not see its proper maintenance as their responsibility. In fact, the public footway here is only 1.5 metres wide, which is totally inadequate. **Suggested Action** 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> [see 34.1.] The outer 50% of the shops’ forecourt width should be compulsorily purchased by the Council. This would still leave a reasonably large area for the shops to mount their display stands, shelving, etc. **__ PART THREE __** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Bounds Green Road/Green Lanes junction - pedestrian lights to be installed at the southern and northern east/west crossing points on Green Lanes. [ref: Part Two 9.3 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Watsons Road/Green Lanes junction to be reconfigured and made pedestrian-friendly. The car park/slip road outside Monaghan’s Tavern and Levenes Solicitors to be paved over and completely pedestrianised. [ref: Part Two 8.13, 8.14 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The road and footway surfaces at the Arriva Bus Garage entrance to be thoroughly overhauled and remodelled. [ref: Part Two 8.9 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The River Park House Corner pavement levels to be adjusted. [ref: Part Two 10.6 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Lordship Lane eastbound bus stop area to be redesigned, with some pavement widening, and a possible extra bus stop. [ref: Part Two 6.7. Part One R. ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The driveway between Morrisons and the Minimarket to be completely pedestrianised and protected by kerbside bollards.[ref: Part Two 12.14, Part One B1] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Buller Road southside footway to be thoroughly overhauled, with high kerbs and kerbside bollards. [ref: Part Two 13.9 ] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Gladstone Avenue/High Road Junction to be completely redesigned and made safe and pedestrian-friendly. Road narrowing is essential here. [ref: Part Two 14.5 ] 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The humped pedestrian crossing point just south of the Gladstone Ave junction to be changed into a Zebra or Pelican Crossing. [ref: Part Two 16.3, 16.8 ] 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Widen the eastside footway between Gladstone Avenue and the Library Pelican Crossing. [ref: Part Two 15.2, 15.5. Part One R. ] 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Remove and pave over the pointless and hazardous fragments of cycle path connected to the new Pelican Crossing near the Library. The west side cycle path area to be built up and incorporated into a widened footway. [ref: Part Two 19.3 ] 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Convert unused paved area outsideLloyds TSB into a motor cycle or pedal cycle parking bay. [ref: Part Two 20.12, 20.26 ] 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The humped pedestrian crossing point just south of the Shopping City bridge to be changed into a Zebra or Pelican Crossing. [ref: Part Two 20.7, 20.19 ] 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Alexandra Road/High Road junction to be narrowed and otherwise made more pedestrian-friendly. [ref: Part Two 21.7 ] 15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Brampton Park Road/High Road junction to be narrowed to its previous width. [ref: Part Two 25.13 ] 16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The pedestrian crossing over the eastbound Turnpike Lane junction carriageway to be narrowed from three to two lanes. [ref: Part Two 28.5 ] 17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> At least two more Pelican Crossings to be installed on Turnpike Lane. [ref: Part Two 29.5, 29.11 ] 18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Westbury Avenue/Langham Road junction to be blocked off and the whole area redesigned and made pedestrian-friendly. [ref: Part Two 33.2 ] 19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Part of the northside Westbury Avenue footway, owned by the shops as forecourt, to be compulsorily purchased in order to facilitate the widening and renovation of the public footway. [ref: Part Two 34.2 ] **From North to South** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Street level public pay toilet near Wood Green Tube Station to be created by purchasing one of the shops near to the station and doing the necessary conversion. [ref: Part One C.4, C.8 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The ground and upper ground levels of River Park House to be reconfigured to accomodate new retail spaces. The facade of the building to be adjusted to minimise down-draughts. [ref: Part Two 10.1, 10.2, 10.5 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Morrisons covered mall extension and porticoed frontage to be sensitively redeveloped to 3-4 storey office over ground floor retail, while broadening out the public space around the bus stop. [ref: Part Two 12.1, 12.8 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The entrance to the alleyway between Morrisons and the Minimarket to be reconfigured. [ref: Part Two 12.11 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The walls and entrances of the main alley from the Library Forecourt to Caxton Road/Parkland Road to be redesigned. The entrances to its ‘partner’ alley on the other side of the library also to be redesigned. [ref: Part One B.3, B.2 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Library’s balcony walls to be re-tiled or re-cladded. [ref: Part Two 17.1, 17.8 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The open sides of the Shopping City car parks (overhanging the High Road) to be meshed or glazed. [ref: Part Two 20.2, 20.14 ] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> All those alcoves around the Shopping City affected by public urination to be bricked up. [ref: Part One B.5, Part Two 21.3, 21.8 ] 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Brick wall to be built in front of ramshackle fencing in Hazel Mews. [ref: Part One B.6 ] 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Street level public pay toilet, preferably in the area between the Alexandra Road and Coleraine Road junctions, to be created by purchasing one of the smaller shops and doing the necessary conversion. [ref: Part One C.3, C.4, C.6, C.8 ] 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The British Home Stores etc. building’s upper facade to be re-cladded with marble. [ref: Part Two 26.2, 26.7 ] 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The stretch of eastside frontages to the south of the British Home Stores etc. building to be redeveloped. The development to be of modest scale (ie: three storeys of street frontage, possibly with a fourth stepped back) and designed to fit in with the surrounding area. As part of the development, the footway betwen Whymark Avenue and Westbury Avenue to be widened to allow much freer pedestrian flow between shops and bus stop. [ref: Part Two 26.1, 26.6, 26.3, 26.9. Part One R. ] **General** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __ Back Alleys - address the severe maintenance deficiencies found in back alleyways throughout the area. [ref: Part One B and B(appendix __ )] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Pavements - renovate paving to high standard throughout. [ref: Part One P ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Underfoot pavement lights (incl. those at bus stops) - repair or remove. [ref: Part One L ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Jolly Butchers Hill - upgrade seating area opposite the Bus Station. [ref: Part Two 8.7, 8.15 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Jolly Butchers Hill - re-position or remove the hazardously sited bus stop outside the Bus Station. [ref: Part Two 8.2, 8.10 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Station Road - renew footway between junction and Housing Offices. [ref: Part Two 11.2, 11.3 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> ‘Goose and Granite’ Corner - renew pavement at corner. [ref: Part Two 11.3, 11.5] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Lordship Lane/Berners Rd junction - replace bollards. [ref: Part Two 6.2, 6.6 ] 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spouters Corner - action required to resolve the ex-Christmas tree space problem. [ref: Part Two 4.3, 4.8 ] 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spouters Corner - renew, standardise and re-site rubbish bins.[ref: Part Two 4.4, 4.10] 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spouters Corner - renew and re-site utility boxes. [ref: Part Two 4.4, 4.9 ] 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spouters Corner - renovate bus stop. [ref: Part Two 4.5, 4.11 ] 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Buller Road - improve street lighting. [ref: Part Two 13.2, 13.8 ] 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Morrisons forecourt - renovate bus stop and fully restore its lighting. [ref: Part Two 12.6, 12.14, 12.15 ] 15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Morrisons forecourt - regularly disinfect and wash down footway pigeon faeces. [ref: Part Two 12.3, 12.10 ] 16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Gladstone Avenue junction - restore historic cattle trough. [ref: Part Two 14.2, 14.6 ] 17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Broadway Parade - replace missing tree outside KFC restaurant. [ref: Part Two 16.4, 16.9 ] 18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Shopping City - re-site ventilation pipe and clean brickwork below. [ref: Part Two 20.3, 20.15 ] 19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Shopping City - finish off railings refurbishment. [ref: Part Two 20.4, 20.16 ] 20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Shopping City - finish off soffit lights refurbishment. [ref: Part Two 20.5, 20.17 ] 21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Shopping City - replace gapped fencing with bollards. [ref: Part Two 20.9, 20.21 ] 22.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Alexandra Road junction - remove light poles. [ref: Part Two 21.5, 21.10 ] 23.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Alexandra Road - renovate northside paving. [ref: Part Two 21.4, 21.9 ] 24.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dovecote Avenue - modify signpost. [ref: Part Two 24.4, 24.8 ] 25.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dovecote Avenue to Whymark Avenue, eastside footway - overhaul drainage system. [ref: Part Two 26.4, 26.10 ] 26.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Outside Ethel Austin shop - replace tree. [ref: Part Two 23.2, 23.7 ] 27.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Complete the paving of Coleraine Road. [ref: Part Two 25.8, 25.17 ] 28.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Turnpike Lane junction - renew and standardise kerbside railings. [ref: Part Two 28.3, 28.6 ] 29.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Ducketts Common - paint the railings. [ref: Part Two 30.2, 30.8 ] 30.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Ducketts Common - re-instate rising bollard at Hampden Road entrance. [ref: Part Two 30.5, 30.11 ] . **From North to South** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Hollywood Green Showcase Cinema - management to be urged to upgrade their signage to West End quality. [ref: Part Two 5.4, 5.7 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Morrisons forecourt - formal acknowledgement to be sought from Morrisons that it is their responsibility to clean, light and maintain the area under their porticoed frontage. [ref: Part Two 12.2, 12.9 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Morrisons forecourt - Morrisons to be urged to regularly disinfect and wash down the pigeon faeces from their forecourt. [ref: Part Two 12.3, 12.10 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Gladstone House - exert pressure on the owners of Gladstone House to decorate and properly maintain their property, especially with regard to the service area. [ref: Part Two 13.4, 13.5, 13.10 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Gaumont Palace - force Club KO proprietors to remove their present signage, replace it with something smaller and more tasteful, and redecorate the building in historically appropriate colours. [ref: Part Two 16.1, 16.6 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dovecote Avenue - urge Wood Green Snooker Club’s proprietors to clean and renovate their windows and signage. [ref: Part Two 24.3, 24.7 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Carphone Warehouse frontage - urge management to renovate their over-the-shop frontage to a good and architecturally fitting standard. Apply financial sanctions if possible and appropriate. [ref: Part Two 25.2, 25.10 ] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Burger King frontage - management to be approached with a view to exploring ways of funding a full historical restoration of the over-the-shop frontage with its three domed lead-roofed bay windows. [ref: Part Two 27.2, 27.5 ]
 * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS **
 * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS **
 * __AIMS AND CONTEXT__ **
 * Specific Aims **
 * shoppers, residents and visitors **
 * Overall Aims **
 * Wider Strategic Context **
 * __GENERAL ISSUES OCCURRING THROUGHOUT THE TOWN CENTRE__**
 * A. ‘Back-Endism’: The Town Centre’s Rear Elevations **
 * B. The Back Alley Problem **
 * B (appendix). The Back Alley Problem - General Conclusions and Suggested Action **
 * C. The Lack of Public Toilet Facilities **
 * D. An Open Space Network for Wood Green Town Centre **
 * E. Cycling on the Pavements **
 * 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> ** [see E.1.] Even when it was made illegal several years ago, there was no appreciable reduction in pavement cycling. This must either mean that the perpetrators don’t know about the new law or don’t care because no-one is ever prosecuted. Residents therefore suggest firstly that a strong poster campaign is launched using the poster sites along the High Road, emphasising that the practice is not only extremely selfish and dangerous, but also completely illegal. Secondly, this ‘warn and inform’ campaign must be followed by a number of ‘exemplary’ highly publicised prosecutions.
 * F. Bollards, Railings and Pavement Parking **
 * G. Pelican Crossings **
 * H. Trees - The De-Greening of Wood Green Town Centre **
 * I. Street Clutter - The Lamppost Advertising Banners and On-Pavement Advertising **
 * Display Stands **
 * J. The Pigeon Problem **
 * K. Drainage **
 * L. Underfoot Pavement Lights **
 * M. Signposts **
 * N. Heritage and the ‘Local List’ **
 * O. Street Cleansing **
 * P. Pavement Renewal and Maintenance **
 * Q. Crime, Anti-Social Behaviour, and Enforcement **
 * R. Pavement Widening/Narrowing **
 * __ SPECIFIC SITE-RELATED ISSUES __**
 * __ 1. THE WOOD GREEN THRESHOLD __**
 * Wood Green Tube Station and the whole Green Lanes/Lordship Lane/Station Road Junction area is a crucially important entrance to Wood Green Town Centre. If Wood Green and (eventually) Haringey Heartlands is going to prosper by attracting more shoppers and visitors, then at least half will have to come through this area. So what kind of message does the streetscape send out to all these existing and potential customers? **
 * Although some efforts have been made in recent decades to improve conditions here, particularly on the pedestrian safety and crime prevention front, the changes still fall well short of what is required for a high quality London shopping centre and, as the following pages will show, have been marred in many places by a serious lack of co-ordination and maintenance follow-up. **
 * __ 2. WOOD GREEN ROAD JUNCTION AND CROSSINGS __**
 * __ 3. WOOD GREEN TUBE STATION __**
 * __ 4. SPOUTERS CORNER __**
 * __ 5. THE HOLLYWOOD GREEN LEISURE COMPLEX __**
 * __ 6. LORDSHIP LANE __**
 * __ 7. DEMOLITION OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL __**
 * __ 8. JOLLY BUTCHERS HILL __**
 * __ 9. THE BOUNDS GREEN ROAD/GREEN LANES JUNCTION __**
 * __ 10. RIVER PARK HOUSE CORNER __**
 * __ 11. STATION ROAD AND THE ‘GOOSE AND GRANITE’ CORNER __**
 * Suggested Action **
 * __ 12. THE MORRISONS FRONTAGE AND BUS STOP __**
 * __ 13. BULLER ROAD AND REDVERS ROAD __**
 * __ 14. THE GLADSTONE AVENUE JUNCTION __**
 * __ 15. GLADSTONE TERRACE (FROM GLADSTONE AVE TO SHOPPING CITY) __**
 * __ 16. THE BROADWAY PARADE __**
 * __ 17. THE CENTRAL LIBRARY AND FORECOURT __**
 * __ 18. THE NEW RETAIL/HOUSING DEVELOPMENT (PORTMAN HOUSE) __**
 * __ 19. THE NEW PELICAN CROSSING NEAR THE LIBRARY __**
 * __ 20. THE SHOPPING CITY AREA __**
 * __ 21. BOOTS CORNER AND THE ALEXANDRA ROAD JUNCTION __**
 * __ 22. THE LYMINGTON AVENUE MALL __**
 * __ 23. CHEAPSIDE TO MARKS AND SPENCERS __**
 * __ 24. DOVECOTE AVENUE __**
 * __ 25. ALEXANDRA ROAD TO COLERAINE ROAD __**
 * __ 26. BETWEEN MARKS AND SPENCERS AND WESTBURY AVENUE __**
 * __ 27. COLERAINE ROAD TO TURNPIKE LANE __**
 * __ 28. THE TURNPIKE LANE JUNCTION __**
 * Suggested Action **
 * __ 29. TURNPIKE LANE __**
 * __ 30. DUCKETTS COMMON __**
 * __ 31. TURNPIKE LANE TUBE STATION AND BUS STATION __**
 * __ 32. THE LANGHAM ROAD/WESTBURY AVENUE ‘WEDGE’ __**
 * __ 33. LANGHAM ROAD ADJACENT TO THE BUS AND TUBE STATIONS __**
 * __ 34. WESTBURY AVENUE __**
 * __ 35. THE TURNPIKE LANE THRESHOLD __**
 * Unlike the Wood Green Threshold, the Turnpike Lane Threshold starts promisingly; most of the basic components are good, and there are no monstrosities like River Park House to contend with. **
 * Turnpike Lane Tube Station, the Bus Station, Ducketts Common, and the Victorian frontages on the High Road’s west side should all combine to create a positive lead-in to Wood Green Town Centre. They should, but they don’t. **
 * Any initial good feeling is soon dispelled, leaving the visitor with an impression of general shabbiness. This is largely because of the depressing effect of the first 50 metres of poor quality eastside frontages, which sends out a downmarket message compounded still further by the Council itself with such highly visible failures of civic management as the ‘pick’n mix’ kerbside railings, the ill-maintained Ducketts Common railings, the badly sited bus stops and the general neglect of Turnpike Lane. **
 * __ SUMMARY OF SUGGESTED CHANGES IN PARTS ONE AND TWO __**
 * S1. STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO THE ROAD AND FOOTWAY **
 * From North to South**
 * S2. STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO THE BUILT **
 * ENVIRONMENT AND POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT **
 * S3. PUBLIC REALM MAINTENANCE DEFICIENCIES **
 * Specific - From North to South**
 * S4. PRIVATE REALM MAINTENANCE DEFICIENCIES **
 * S5. OPEN SPACE AND GREEN IMPROVEMENTS **

1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Formal recognition to be given to Wood Green Town Centre’s ‘Urban Open Space Network’, and a study made, with full residents’participation, of ways to improve, harmonise and humanise the spaces. [ref: Part One D 1-5 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> A major new programme of tree planting to be started, using large as well as small varieties. [ref: Part One H.1-4 ] **Specific - From North to South** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Jolly Butchers Hill - plant new trees with other greenery as part of the suggested pedestrianisation of the area outside Monaghan’s Tavern and Levenes Solicitors. [ref: Part Two 8.6, 8.14 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spouters Corner - make study of possible community uses of space, plant new Christmas tree in raised bed, sort out rubbish bin and utility box mess, and renovate bus stop. [ref: Part Two 4.1-12 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Morrisons forecourt - completely pedestrianise and renovate whole area up to Minimarket, including bus stop. [ref: Part Two 12.1-15 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Broadway Parade - replace missing tree outside KFC restaurant. [ref: Part Two 16.4, 16.9 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Shopping City - replace the two removed trees just north of the bridge. [ref: Part Two 20.8, 20.20 ] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Lymington Avenue mall - install new raised shrubberies and renew utility boxes. [ref: Part Two 22.1-4 ] 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Outside Ethel Austin - replace missing tree. [ref: Part Two 23.2, 23.7 ] 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dovecote Avenue - completely pedestrianise and make more welcoming and people-friendly. [ref: Part Two 24.1-8 ] 11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The Westbury Avenue/Langham Road junction to be blocked off and the whole area redesigned and made pedestrian-friendly, with trees and seating. [ref: Part Two 33.1-2 ] 12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Turnpike Lane Tube Station, Green Lanes forecourt - plant two or three new trees and install benches to make space more people-friendly. [ref: Part Two 31.3, 31.4 ] 13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Ducketts Common - move rubbish bins closer to benches, and install new benches in south half of Common. [ref: Part Two 30.3, 30.6, 30.9, 30.12 ] 14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Ducketts Common - improve general level of day-to-day maintenance. [ref: Part Two 30.7, 30.13 ] **From North to South** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Grade 2 Listing status to be sought for Wood Green Tube Station. [ref: Part Two 3.1-3 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The ‘Goose and Granite’ pub to be granted Local Listing status. [ref: Part Two 11.1, 11.5 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Gladstone House to be granted Local Listing status. [ref: Part Two 13.4, 13.5, 13.10 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Gladstone Terrace frontages to be included in the Noel Park Conservation Area or granted Local Listing status. [ref: Part Two 15.1, 15.4 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Broadway Parade frontages to be granted Local Listing status. [ref: Part Two 16.2, 16.7 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Section of eastside frontages from Lymington Avenue up to and including the Marks and Spencers building to be granted Local Listing status. [ref: Part Two 23.1, 23.5 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Section of westside frontages from Coleraine Road to Turnpike Lane to be granted Local Listing status. [ref: Part Two 27.1, 27.4 ] 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Buller Road - street lighting to be improved. [ref: Part Two 13.2, 13.8 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> River Park House corner - street lighting to be improved. [ref: Part Two 10.1, 10.4 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Under the Shopping City bridge - over-the-footway lighting to be improved. [ref: Part Two 20.11, 20.24 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Lighting provision in the back alleys to be assessed. [Part One B(appendix) 2 ] 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Remove new lamppost advertising banners. [ref: Part One I.1, I.3 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Remove new on-pavement advertising display stands. [ref: Part One I.2, I.4 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Re-site utility boxes near Bus Garage and at Spouters Corner. [ref: Part Two 4.9, 8.11 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Re-site lamppost outside Clarks shoe shop. [ref: Part Two 25.7, 25.16 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Remove light poles outside Boots. [ref: Part Two 21.5, 21.10 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Remove the three banner poles in Library forecourt. [ref: Part Two 17.4, 17.9 ] **General** 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> All public art commissions must involve full and active local resident participation in the decision-making process. They must also be weatherproof and, as far as possible, vandal-proof. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Consideration should be given to commissioning robust child-friendly sculptures in as many as possible of the open spaces comprising the Wood Green Town Centre ‘Open Space Network’, with full local consultation. [ref: Part One D.4 ] **From North to South** 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Wrought iron screen, mosaic, or plaque, all with a ‘Jolly Butchers’ theme, to be commissioned for the wall of the electricity sub-station on Jolly Butchers Hill, with full local consultation. [ref: Part Two 8.12 ] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Bas-relief or other artwork to be commissioned for the blank wall of Hollywood Green which overhangs Lordship Lane, with full local consultation. [ref: Part Two 5.2, 5.6 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Spouters Corner - if a conifer (the preferred option) is not planted in the ex-Christmas tree space, a piece of public art should be commissioned to go there, with full local consultation. [ref: Part Two 4.8 ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Main alley from Library forecourt to Caxton Road/Parkland Road - decorative screen or other artwork to upgrade alley, with full local consultation. ref: Part One B.3 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Plaque commemorating the historic Wood Green Empire Theatre, to be commissioned and affixed to a nearby wall, with full local consultation. [ref: Part Two 23.1, 23.6 ] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Dovecote Avenue - decorative screen, mural, or other artwork to be commissioned to cover the northside wall, with full local consultation. [ref: Part Two 24.2, 24.6 ] 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Back Alley Crime. Following the recommendations of the suggested taskforce, upgrade and reconfigure the alleyways and extend Town Centre CCTV coverage to those alleyways most affected by crime. [ref: Part One B(appendix), 2 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> To reduce the amount of anti-social behaviour and low-level criminality in the Town Centre, the following action is suggested: ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __pavement cycling__. Action: poster and media campaign, followed by on-the-spot fines or exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __aggressive posturing by groups of youths__. Action: visible police presence. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __noisy and aggressive behaviour by large groups of schoolchildren__ __after school__. Action: visible police presence and liaison with schools. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __street littering__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus on-the-spot fines or exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __fly-tipping__. Action: enforcement using mobile CCTV followed by fines or exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __shopowners who leave rubbish outside their rubbish containers, particularly in back alleys__ - Action: enforcement by fines and exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __dog fouling__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus on-the-spot fines or exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __public spitting__. Action: poster and media campaign. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __public urination__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus on-the-spot fines or exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __pigeon feeding__. Action: poster and media campaign, plus on-the-spot fines or exemplary prosecutions. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __illegal parking, especially on pavements__. Action: enforcement by police, PCSOs, and parking wardens. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __driving the wrong way down one-way streets__. Action: enforcement by police. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __illegal pavement stalls__. Action: enforcement by PCSOs and Council officers, especially on Saturday and Sunday. At present Sunday is a day of anarchy, with illegal traders given a completely free run. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem: __loud music from shops, stalls, and the UCKG Church directed onto the street__. Action: enforcement by PCSOs and Council officers. [ref: Part One Q ] 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Representatives from local Residents’ Associations must be given full rights of participation in all decisions and decision-making bodies which significantly affect the Wood Green Town Centre streetscape. This would have prevented some of the most unpopular and counter-productive changes to the streetscape such as the ‘arboreal blitzkrieg’ of 1999 and the lamppost advertising banner deluge of 2006. [ref: Part One H.3, I.1 ] 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Systems and, most importantly, funding must be put in place to ensure that the more permanent features of the streetscape (eg. paving, street lamps, bollards, railings, bus stops, crossing points, benches) are frequently monitored and promptly repaired. [ref: Part One P.7 ] 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> All ideas for new streetscape features must be rigorously vetted for weakness in terms of sustainability and ease of maintenance. [ref: Part Two 21.10] 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Residents demand a complete change of ethos in Haringey’s Planning Department. Henceforth, planning officers must insist that all new developments take fully into account their social, environmental and aesthetic effect on all of the surrounding communities and viewpoints, whether at the front, the back or the sides. The current drive to intensification must be halted. [ref: Part One A, Part Two 7.3, 7.6 ] 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __ The Back Alleyways __. The Council should set up a taskforce consisting of Council officers, police officers and residents’ representatives with the brief of studying the problems of the back alleyways’ structural and aesthetic environment as well as the on-going problems of cleansing and maintenance, with a view to making detailed recommendations to resolve all these issues. The taskforce must work in full participation with local Residents’ Associations (i e.from the start to the finish of its duration). The recommendations must be promptly acted on and a generous budget allocated for the purpose. [ref: Part One B(appendix) ] 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> A study group needs to be urgently set up with full and active resident participation to investigate ways of ameliorating the Council-created bus saturation of Bullers Road and Redvers Road? If a solution or even a half-solution to the problem is found, then the Council has an overriding duty to fully fund it. [ref: Part Two 13.7 ] 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Formal recognition should be given to Wood Green Town Centre’s ‘Urban Open Space Network’, and a study made, with full residents’ participation, of ways to improve, harmonise and humanise these spaces. [ref: Part One D 1-5 ] 8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Local Residents Associations and heritage groups such as the Hornsey Historical Society must be consulted, along with the Council’s own heritage experts, with the object of drawing up a definitive list of Wood Green Town Centre buildings and frontages worthy of preservation and/or restoration. These must be included in the Borough’s ‘Local List’ and an unequivocal commitment given by the Council’s Leadership and all the relevant Chiefs of Departments to honour both the spirit and the letter of Haringey Council’s heritage policy. [ref: Part One N ] 9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In order that outrages such as the demolition of the Congregational Chapel in Lordship Lane should never happen again, Council policy must be changed so that local residents, local Ward Councillors and local Residents Associations are given at least three months written notice of any demolition which is going to significantly affect the townscape. [ref: Part Two 7 ] 10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Council policy must be changed to allow cafes in Wood Green Town Centre to place tables on the footway outside their premises, wherever the pavements are wide enough for this to be appropriate and desirable. [ref: Part Two 20.10, 20.23 ]
 * General**
 * S6. HERITAGE - LISTING SUGGESTIONS **
 * S7. STREET LIGHTING **
 * S8. STREET CLUTTER **
 * S9. PUBLIC ART SUGGESTIONS **
 * S10. CRIME, ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, AND **
 * ENFORCEMENT **
 * S11. CHANGES TO ETHOS, POLICY, AND ADMINISTRATIVE **
 * REGIMES **