Crouch End Neighbourhood Priorities Statement
We thought it important to end the year with a complete round up of the consultation events of 2025. The CROUCH END NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM NEIGHBOURHOOD PRIORITIES STATEMENT crystalizes ideas received into a submission of local planning priorities. The document is
Continue ReadingLocal 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 ReadingCrouch End Character Appraisal: Views
Views A district bordered on three sides by the Northern Heights, multiple views make a significant, sensitive contribution to local character – across and beyond the town, and as viewed from the hollow, tree lined ridges. The green environment is
Continue ReadingCrouch End Character Appraisal: Townscape
Townscape The experiential character of the area arises through the 19th c. built form which provides a constant rich visual interest, and the curved and deflected lines of the old routes. Views are frequently terminated by the clock tower: a
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 ReadingHornsey Town Hall Square and the case of the disappearing paving
UPDATE 13th January. HTH write to say – “At the time of writing, we expect the granite paving to be removed from the site w/c 24th January and the replacement York Stone to commence from 8th February. This should
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
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