Could both Haringey Council and developer Grainger be starting to get collective cold feet in their eleven-year battle to rip the heart out of Seven Sisters? Even after the planning application to knock down the locally-famous Ward’s Corner building, work in the area has yet to begin.
That has given the great minds behind the Wards Corner Community Coalition the opportunity to once again put alternative plans for the area (click here), and will hold an event tonight (details here) for local people to see the plans in full, and to discuss what they could do to convince councillors to accept them.
Judging by the comments made on Haringey Council’s planning portal, there has been popular support by local people and beyond for the community plan. It has been something that Tottenham desperately needed for a long time (Hurry, you’ve only got until the end of work tomorrow to comment on the application).
If this sort of plan had been put forward in any other part of Haringey, or indeed in any other part of London, there would be all sorts of conditions put in place by planning officers to ensure buildings like Ward’s get refurbished and in some cases, preserved. So why the people of Tottenham be asked to support a destruction of a vital part of a neighbourhood which is in need of positive change?
While the council may be paying attention to this now, the cynic in me suggests they are doing so because the local elections are coming up.
Seven Sisters Community 
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