Townsend YardApril 2023 update
Despite continuing breaches of site regulations and the failure to overcome the fire access issue, Haringey allowed the developers of Townsend Yard to begin pile-driving work adjacent to Shepherd’s Cottage .
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Highgate Society AGM: Guest speaker Dan Carrier
Wednesday 10th May 2023
7.00 pm (Doors open at 6.45 pm)
Jacksons Lane Arts Centre, 269a Archway Road, N6 5AA
Guest speaker – journalist and author Dan Carrier.
Admission free. Members and non-members welcome. Refreshments provided.
Archway Campus consultation
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Seven Capital are arranging a further and final round of community consultations. They will be holding an exhibition preview for nearby residents on Monday 5th June 6pm – 8pm at the Archway Methodist Church and subsequently, on the 6th June, there will be a wider public exhibition at the same venue from 3.30pm – 7.30pm.
Sathnam Sanghera in conversation
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Wednesday 31st May 7.00 for 7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
£6 including a glass of wine (£3 on Zoom).
An informal evening of conversation with the award winning journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction.
For details and booking arrangements click More.
The poets of Highgate – a guided walk
Saturday 13th May 2.30 pm Meet outside Lauderdale House* for a guided walk by Ruth Hazeldine to learn about the poets who chose Highgate as their home and to hear their poems read out. The walk will take approximately one hour and will terminate with a refreshing stop for tea, when you may discuss what you […]
What’s happening with the old 271 bus stand?
The short answer is we don’t know. It is incredibly frustrating that the bus route changes have been known about for nearly a year and no one at Camden or TfL seems to have planned ahead for what to do with the old 271 bus stand in such a sensitive location in Highgate village. Surely […]
Townsend Yard Campaign
January 2023 update
Our petition is gaining traction – Please sign now if you have not already – and if you have, please share it again with your local contacts – we have seen no signs of any activity by Haringey on this issue and so must keep the pressure up.
Christmas at Kenwood consultation
“Christmas at Kenwood”, the light show, has now drawn to a close for its second year, and English Heritage has been seeking feedback in advance of a public consultation meeting on 22 March at 6.30pm in the Old Kitchen, Kenwood. Timescales for the consultation itself were short so members of Council of the Highgate Society […]
The Winter Keep Warm Challenge
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The Sustainable Living Group took advantage of belonging to Community Energy London (CEL) and has been awarded a grant from a CEL crowdfunder, from the Worshipful Company of Fuellers and from Camden Council’s Cost of Living fund to distribute small items that will ‘Keep Heat In and Cold Out’ around Highgate.
Warm clothes for Ukraine
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Saturday 21st January saw the second of two collections of warm clothes for Ukraine. Thanks to our able volunteers, everything was checked and sorted and we took a total of eight full car loads of clothes to the consolidation point for onward delivery to Poland before transfer into different vehicles to be taken into Ukraine. […]
