planning+-+local+issues+-+update+(17.1.08)

=HFRA Digest (17.1.08): Various Planning Issues=


 * 1. WARDS CORNER (Seven Sisters)**
 * 2. Keep major planning decisions in public domain**
 * 3. Support the community campaign to save Cecile Park backlands**
 * 4. Oppose an application for an 'Adult Gaming Centre'**
 * 5. Have your say on new planning requirements (Council consultation currently in progress)**

Other general news and updates: www.haringeyresidents.org/what's+new



//From members of the Wards Corner Community Coalition (which includes 7 residents associations, and the Wards Corner market traders)//


 * WARDS CORNER (Seven Sisters)**

Wards Corner is located next to the Seven Sisters Tube entrance on the High Road, and bounded by Seven Sisters Road, Suffield Road and West Green Road. There is a proposal from the developers Graingers to redevelop the site by evicting the vibrant indoor market, demolishing everything including the historic buildings, building two 8 storey residential tower blocks of luxury flats, other residential blocks and a shopping complex, including a chain supermarket.

The community came together and decided to oppose what was being presented, and to form the Wards Corner Community Coalition (WCC). At present there are several local residents associtations, seven sisters market traders, Haringey Friends of the Earth and the Tottenham Civic Society. Together they have developed an Alternative Community Plan for the site, saving and restoring the buildings, keeping and improving the market, adding community facilities, and creating a public piazza.

See __http://www.wardscornercommunity.org.uk/__ for more information on the current situation regarding the developers plans, but also the community's response.


 * Tottenham Deserves Better**

Dear Tottenham Journal,

In November 2003 I led a residents' deputation to the Council's Regeneration Scrutiny Panel about the important proposals to redevelop Wards Corner. We asked for: A re-run of the recent poorly run consultation on the proposals with a written guarantee of proper consultation in future. The thriving multi-cultural Seven Sisters market community to be celebrated and supported. Restoration of the elegant and distinctive Wards Department store

We had little confidence that knocking down this existing quality building would result in a high quality replacement. We gave notice that we would therefore oppose the granting of conservation area consent to demolish this building unless an excellently designed alternative scheme was presented. Four years later an even larger coalition of residents are now opposed to the unnattractive new proposed scheme for this Gateway to Tottenham on which residents were only really consultated on the layout of the pavement outside the gated private housing. The Wards Corner Community Coalition has produced an imaginative alternative scheme recognising that enlightened local authorities are now looking to markets as engines for urban renewal.

Yours sincerely, Sue Penny, Clyde Area Residents' Association.

Haringey Independent 30.11.07 [From their website]
 * Community presents 'alternative' plans for Wards Corner**

Traders and community groups opposing Haringey council's 'bland and unimaginative' plans for the redevelopment of Wards Corner are displaying their proposals to the public at an exhibition in Seven Sisters market from tomorrow.

Wards corner, the apex of Seven Sisters and Tottenham High Road, will be t