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Traffic

To see the Society’s representations on the (misleadingly named) Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood consultation and to learn about the ‘traffic walks’ initiative to build up a database of traffic conditions, click More

Citizen of London: the story of Richard Whittington

Wednesday 17th January 2024 7.30 pm.
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
£7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom).

Michael McCarthy introduces his biography of ‘the boy who would be mayor’. For details and booking click More.

Sunday lunchtime concert: Lior Solomons Wise Trio

Sunday 21st January 2024 12 noon.
£15 including a glass of Buck’s Fizz.
Lior (piano), Edouard (double bass) and Jonah (drums) take their inspiration from the great names of Bebop jazz – Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and John Coltrane – but will include some compositions of their own. For details and booking click More.

Music in Highgate Homes: Trio Trillium

SOLD OUT
Sunday 11th February 2024 6.30 pm
£30 including interval wine and canapés. Highgate Society members only. For details click More

Alice Lascelles orange 2 (cr Wallace Wainhouse) for web

Cocktail tasting with
Alice Lascelles

SOLD OUT

Friday 23rd February 2024 7.30 pm.
10A South Grove N6 6BS.

Join the Financial Times’s Alice Lascelles for a special evening of cocktail tasting and storytelling. This is the third time Alice has appeared at the Society – her previous, immensely enjoyable, gin and whisky tasting evenings were both sold out.

For details and booking arrangments click More

2024 Tidy up programme

Click More for the 2024 schedule of dates and locations and details of the arrangments.

Highgate School planning application workshops

The Society has been working with the School to take forward plans for workshops to consider the Schools planning applications. These are now likely to take place in the New Year and we hope facilitated by the Prince’s Foundation. Click More for details.

Saving our trees
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Insurers are prone to claim that trees close to buildings are a risk and on that basis to refuse or limit cover. Where there are no good reasons we deplore the loss of trees in our urban environment. The Highgate Society has been successful in persuading Haringey to refuse an application to fell a mature […]

Townsend Yard emergency access update

Our campaign on Townsend Yard has made some progress. Last month we reported that we saw a passageway beginning to take shape to provide emergency fire access to 36A Highgate High Street. It was a small win, but a win nevertheless.

The developer has belatedly submitted a planning application for the changes involved in constructing this passageway. We are now campaigning to make sure that as a minimum there is access to that passageway for emergency use by the resident of 36A as well as by the fire brigade. For details click More

From Highgate Hill opposite Lauderdale House

Archway Campus – Plan B details awaited

Readers will recall the plans for the Archway Campus site at the bottom of Highgate Hill, which included a 32 storey tower. The developer Seven Capital responded to comments and objections by reducing slightly the height of the tower to 28 storeys. However, interestingly there is now a second alternative for the site which does not include the tower.