Local development: Farrar Mews N8
Plans have been unveiled for what is shaping up to be one of the bigger housing developments to hit Crouch End in recent years. Image: Google maps; image above Farrar Mews development Public Consultation Board, click for details
Continue ReadingPolicy thoughts – Housing
Crouch End residents’ top housing priority is provision of more affordable and appropriate housing, but there are few potential sites. Young people and families need housing they can afford and which is the right accommodation for them, whilst older people
Continue ReadingCrouch End 2030 — emerging priorities, part two: topic group findings
Crouch End 2030 Workshop Part Two: Topic Group Findings See also part 1. Key take-aways 1. Social and Community There was universal support for measures that build upon existing feelings of belonging and neighbourliness in Crouch End. There was agreement
Continue ReadingWaitrose – Up on the Roof
Another upwards extension gets the planning go-ahead, this time on top of Waitrose (which is to say the 1950s Woolworths) overlooking the clock tower. Not that Waitrose own the building. 3 flats, campanologists preferred. As posted previously (Crouch End Going
Continue ReadingIn Planning – Floral Hall
Update, November 2022: Application refused on heritage grounds. Took Haringey an awful long time though. Just when Crouch End thought the recent redevelopment of the town centre might be coming to a close (Tottenham Lane and Hornsey Town Hall, we’re
Continue ReadingIn Planning Jan 2022 – Crouch End going up, part 1 Broadway Court
Broadway Court, adorned. Image credits: c/o planning submissions, Haringey planning portal. Crouch End’s residential developments continue to arrive, year after year, and everyone’s focus in 2022 will undoubtedly fall upon the (finally) completing Tottenham Lane flats, and of course the
Continue ReadingGreen space in Park Road under threat
Image: Haringey’s proposal for Park Road. UPDATE: The proposal for flats and houses received planning permission despite many objections (particularly about the loss of trees) in March 2022. To wit: Demolition of garages and removal of parking area and erection
Continue ReadingIn Planning – Crouch End, February 2021
Another periodic look at significant local residential developments. Densification we believe it’s called – and on and on it goes. Images: drawings from Haringey planning portal, photos, CENF. Tottenham Lane We’re in the latter stages of the Tottenham Lane
Continue ReadingHaringey act against office to residential conversions
CENF have submitted a letter of support for Haringey’s move to apply an ‘Article 4 Direction’, covering Crouch End town centre, designed to restrict permitted development rights which currently allow for the change of use from offices to residential without
Continue ReadingIn Planning – Crouch End, June 2020
Current significant Crouch End developments in Planning We like to keep an eye on developments. This time a report on current proposals both consented and proposed – but not yet under construction. How the post-Covid housing world will shape up,
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