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Haringey was quite sympathetic. There was an exhibition in a tent at one point. But then after that some university school of architecture seemed to adopt it as a 'learning project', and next thing it had turned into a kind of architectural onanism, with a group of students meeting now and again in a local bar to bleat about impossibly unrealistic ideas, none of which stood the slightest chance of seeing the light of day. There were also objections that it would just create a new place for street drinkers and street crime. I'm no architect and I stopped having any time for it, it gradually died a death and I've heard nothing since.
The only thing that actually happened was the council replaced the shrubs and tarted up the existing flower beds.
Pity, because all that 'dead' space at the heart of Stroud Green is wasted public land on a prime spot, which could really be turned into a focus for the community. Imagine passing something zingy and interesting there on the W7 bus through Stroud Green, instead of a dreary row of cars, frazzled shrubs and a row of shuttered shops. Any architect or planner here want to give it another go?
I definitely care and would join such a group if set up
A series of small incremental improvements, baby steps as it were - holding shopkeepers hands at each step - would have a great impact
I noticed this morning the plaster mouldings between each shop - where they fall 'between' each shop's area of responsibility/paint job, have been left to peel and flake. In time the plasterwork will be quickly eroded and lost.
An example of a small, achievable interim step would be a coordinated effort to strip and repaint these mouldings while a wider more impactful scheme was being developed
nails and heads come to mind with this phrase - thanks
Arsenal could be one. I have been told a very very famous Arsenal footballer lived and ran a shop on this corner site pre-Blitz, some time in the 1930s when the game was amateur. Don't have a name.
Bob Hoskins.
Diversity?
I didn't get very far - I was asked by the drone answering the phone for my post-code and then told me that as a resident of Islington they couldn't help me.
I suggest that anybody else getting this kind of treatment talks to councillors on both sides of the boundary line, and possibly an MP or two for good measure.
Hackney, Islington and Haringay had Finsbury Park designated as a special action zone precisely because it bordered 3 local authority areas and services where therefore fragmented. They seem to have forgotten all about this.
I am really excited at the prospect of this.