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In reality, the parks main use is in the summer - when people need full access to it most - so for it to be degraded in that period, is at least, unfair.
To carry on the logic, which may or may not be fair, if we prioritised cash over its fundamental reason for existence, why not just have festivals every weekend? Stack up the cash so it can be redeveloped over winter. Obviously, that's hyperbole, but it highlights the core issue, which is, local people in Haringey need access to green spaces as a priority.
So, although it would be great to avoid disruption for sure I'd prefer not to be down to a few quid on our account every month.
Anyway, people around these ends seem to be able to afford it, so why not, more taxes is fine, let's just nimby until those who can't afford it move out of the area.
No doubt public expenditure is a tad over what the Conservatives would like, but then it always is. Where is a lot of that money going, hmmm? I haven't heard of any billionaires losing their shirt in the current "crisis". It is, after all, a humanitarian crisis first and foremost, not a financial one.
Not as a broadside to you but I feel that it serves the powers that be for us to blame each other - arguing over concerts in a park when the real question is, how did we end up in a place where the third most expensive city in the world per square foot is in a position that this is even an argument for local politics. If the answer we've come to is that we destroy local amenities for profit or as you say, vast swathes of people are forced out of the city, then potentially, we're asking the wrong question. Which to my point, is beneficial for vast swathes of very rich, tax dodging people, who live in the same city as us.
a handful of bullionaires run the newspapers which then set the agenda for the main broadcast media, and it frames everything in terms of limited resources and blaming each other.
meanwhile the UK owns most of the tax havens in the world, and the city is an unregulated cesspit of greed. oh, and then while this is all going on, the world is burning and your kids and grandkids face military rule and rations as the world's grain can no longer be grown and a billion climate refugees are looking for a new home.
our defunct democracy will never change any of this and humanity is on a fast course to oblivion unless people start waking up, thinking of future generations, and working every day towards a non-violent revolution of the way we're governed.
there's more of us than them, and principles of direct democracy such as citizens' assemblies have been proven to not just work, but provide the means to massive consensual changes in society.
there IS a giant money tree, but it's on a small island in the bahamas or caymans and needs to be replanted nearer to home.
I don't see how either higher corporation tax or higher taxes on high earners would nimby anything around here. If anything revenues from those taxes used to strengthen local government would make it easier for lower-earners to stay and thrive, and reduce inequality.
Money is required to rebuild the station so a property company offer to pay for it if they can put flats there.
Then the funding for all stations is permanently pulled, meaning flats have to be built at every station as there is no money in the budget and certainly no magic money tree.
The carnage, loss of amenities and sudden reduction of public housing is seen as unavoidable.
Crossrail has been so ruinous for so many small and independent businesses for this very reason and yet it's still costing us millions (or billions probably).
I see Lloyds Bank are getting in on buying property now which will squeeze things ever further.
So I think you can argue that snatcher Thatcher did cut taxes. I guess the question is what was the impact of that?
But she did also borrow money as in 1979 National Debt % of GDP was at 40% at the end of her reign it was 54%. The norm for not being excessive is 60%. Last year it was 84.5%. in Jan this year it was 97.9 % and forcast in 2022 to be 109%.
The question here is does this really matter? Right leaning Politician's go about the place presenting this in the terms it is like a houshold budget (it is not) and there is no Magic Money tree but there obviously is a magic money tree as the Government seems to have found it. All this household budget is guff and is to lay the ground to "national sacrifice" and more austerity.
None of the above takes into account the Brexit impact which has not yet started on the inbound side Britsh border but has been delayed until October.
For the record, with Finsbury Park I don't think that's the nature of that relationship at all. The City North development was built on private land. The tunnel that carried the station entrance to Wells Terrace was part of that private land, rented by TfL/Network Rail. When the City North development first went in to planning (2009) they agreed to keep the station tunnel, and make passive provision for a new station entrance should TfL/Network Rail ever stump up the cash to do the necessary tunnel work on their own property to create the new and improved link. In the end the latter DID stump up the cash before the development began, so the planning application was amended (2011) to scrap the tunnel and provide a new entrance instead - the developer benefits because they were able to have a larger basement where the tunnel was (hence the cinema) and possibly (I don't know this) rent on the station's new entrance.
On the other hand passive provision for housing above stations goes back a LONG way. As an example, all the Leslie Green Piccadilly line stations were designed for it.
Some never utilised the space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Green#/media/File:Russell_Square_station.jpg
Others did: https://assets.londonist.com/uploads/2019/07/i875/img-1217.jpg
This doesn't speak to the wider issue of property prices in London and how to remedy it. The report put out last year by the dreadfully-named 'Building Better Building Beautiful Commission' answers a lot of those questions in my view. With good neighbourhood planning and zoning laws much of London's cruddy metroland could be transformed into the gentle density of proper mature cities, adding enormous volumes of quality new housing.
I don't actually suffer from nimbyism so don't mind things being built or even young people daring to make noise, it's the total lack of consideration for existing people and businesses that drives me mad.