Shopfronts — garish and gutted, enforcement pending?
There’s growing concern about the Crouch End high street as a rash of ripped out shopfronts and new depressing, over-lit, poorly designed, cheapjack signage is driving a coach and horses through the conservation area and damaging the local economy. It’s
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 ReadingTown Hall Square re-emerges
Lido? Launch pad? Penguin pool? Well, despite the ill-informed rumours to the contrary, it may just be the long awaited return of the green (it’s a bit late). We look forward to the planting and the lawn, and it looks
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 ReadingCrouch End, the future takes shape
Crouch End Retail Survey January 2022 Last year the annual survey of the High Street had a definite sense of foreboding, but from the vantage point of December 2021 the pandemic seems, if anything, notable for the lack of visible
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 ReadingHigh street evolution: signposts
We don’t know when a return to normality for the economy will appear, but like the rest of you, there’s one key indicator we’re in the habit of checking: the high street. Green shoots and all that, there’s a good
Continue ReadingAll roads lead to Haringey, *again*
High Time for the Crouch End Spring Streaterie Highway 2021 Revisited. We’re reminded not to let a good blog go gently. The following was originally published in May 2020. We didn’t think much has changed so you get to see
Continue ReadingGreen shoots of a Crouch End recovery?
As our January review of the local economy was a tad grim, we thought a peek at some soon-to-open newcomers might offer a ray of post-vaccine sunshine. Brave stuff to open in a pandemic, but then we’ve also seen the
Continue ReadingTown Hall Square design (a recap)
Here’s an issue that often comes up: the new square. It’s clearly an important matter for the community – and, we think, one for the local economy too. The hoardings are due to come down this summer. We thought a quick
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