Highgate Hill crossing
Our campaign to improve safety on Highgate Hill has generated many responses from members and residents.
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271 bus stand
The Old Bus Stand is a huge opportunity to reinvigorate the Highgate village shopping centre and enhance the conservation area. Highgate village is not suited to large retail premises and so its future depends on becoming a more pleasant destination for leisure shopping with outside cafes and dining.
Highgate School development plans
The school is a valued neighbour and important employer, but expansion will change Highgate as a place to live and work, increasing traffic and impacting the Conservation Area. Plans impact a number of different locations.
Townsend Yard Campaign
Townsend Yard is a short narrow road that connects only with Highgate High Street. Permitting five or six houses would have been reasonable, but allowing seven removed the turning area and blocked emergency access and exit from 36A Highgate High Street (Shepherd’s Cottage). Shepherd’s Cottage is listed grade II and the development will remove all public view of the Cottage and destroy its setting.
Bus Stand ideas
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Now that TfL has implemented the bus route changes, there is an empty space in the middle of the village, and we thought it would be useful to share some ideas from 2007. Hopefully more ideas will be suggested. Perhaps you have an idea? Contact us if you do, ideally with a link to a […]
Highgate Newtown, Bertram St. redevelopment
The Community centre and housing development on the Highgate Newtown Community Centre Bertram Street site is advancing, with outlines of the new buildings taking shape. A wide range of activities offering vital support to the community are now provided in partnership with a range of local organisations and funders. The community centre will return to […]
Saturday Coffee Morning
The Highgate Society Saturday coffee morning is a fixture throughout the year running from 10:30am to 12:00. A social event open to all there is also a regular planning surgery taking place during the morning offering advice to local residents on planning issues. Coffee or tea plus cake or biscuits. Suggested contribution £3 (free refills […]
A Seat at
the Theatre
In August, at the instigation of the Events Committee, 30 members of the Highgate Society were invited to an exclusive hard hat sneak preview of the newly refurbished Victorian Theatre at Alexandra Palace. We were shown round the magnificent building, still very much a “work in progress” and following the visit the Society has now […]
Clean Up
Highgate
Time: 10 am, Saturday 4th August Place: Priory Gardens exit of Highgate underground station Duration: An hour with the option to carry on for longer if anyone has the energy! Others may wish to retreat to Highgate Society HQ at 10A South Grove for tea/coffee/biscuits. Purpose: litter tidy up on path between Priory Gardens and […]
Highgate Society Exhibitions
Conservation Areas – Then and Now. Together with the Watercolour Group’s ‘Buildings of the Conservation Area’. Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July, 2 – 4pm FREE ENTRY. 10A South Grove, N6 6BS