Crouch End retail healthcheck 2025
Crouch End Retail Survey start 2025 Another glimpse at the health of the Crouch End high street. Last year’s report can be found here. Comings and goings The previous 12 months (2023) saw the demise of well-loved institutions such as
Continue ReadingPolicy thoughts – Economy
The economic climate in Crouch End is a cause for concern. Despite retaining its charm, the number of vacant commercial properties is increasing. Our recent Retail Health Check Reports (2024 / 2023) paint a bleak picture of the current situation
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 ReadingCrouch End retail healthcheck 2024
Crouch End Retail Survey start 2024 Another glimpse at the health of the Crouch End high street. Last year’s report can be found here. Comings and goings The usual heavy roll-call. Last year saw the demise of institutions such as
Continue ReadingCrouch End Character Appraisal: Culture
The area has a long association with the arts – a ‘creative village’ – though the evocation of a nonpareil artistic quarter is something of a conceit. Social capital relies instead upon memories of the mid-20th c. Bohemia of musicians,
Continue ReadingCrouch End Carry Out – retail healthcheck Jan 2023
Crouch End Retail Survey January 2023 Another glimpse at the health of the Crouch End high street. Last year’s report can be found here. Comings and goings Hellos to – Humble Grape, Hornsey Exchange (soon itself to turn into a
Continue ReadingShopfronts — 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 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 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
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