Dartmouth Park Area Healthy Neighbourhood
Image: Regular Gridlock on Highgate West Hill. Photo at 10.30am on 17 November 2023.
Image: Regular Gridlock on Highgate West Hill. Photo at 10.30am on 17 November 2023.
Madeleine Cosgrave of the organising committee writes:We were delighted that Highgate hosted an amazing Fair In the Square 2024. As ever there was a mix of the old favourites (stalls, local volunteers, Pond Square stage, dog show, Mini Mozart kids tent) and fresh ideas (second stage at St Michael’s church, St Aloysius basketball, try out […]
On the morning of 23 May members of the Society met some Community Support Officers and Cllr. Scott Emery, Highgate (Haringey). We stood on The Bank and for half an hour used a portable radar speed camera. Many of the cars coming down the Hill were going faster than the 20 mile an hour speed […]
Alice Roberts gave a fascinating talk at the Society’s AGM. She covered how the CPRE aims to pre-empt threats to green space, and fight those threats.
William Britain gave the annual chairs report.
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Building on the outcome from the Public Meeting in June 2023, we have continued to push forward the programme of workshops, and the Kings Foundation have been appointed as facilitators. Resident views continue to be relevant. You can contact the Secretary of the Highgate Society secretary@highgatesociety.com to be put in touch with the individual representing your street.Other material […]
The Highgate Society recently convened a meeting with local Archway businesses, officers from Haringey Council, Haringey councillors and community groups, including the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum and the Highgate CAAC. The aim of the meeting was to encourage key stakeholders to work collaboratively to agree initiatives to improve and revitalise Archway Road. While noting that there […]
The Highgate Society has strongly objected to a Fire Strategy report submitted by the developer for a planning amendment to the permission granted to develop seven mews houses in Townsend Yard in 2020. The Fire Safety report put forward three options for fire access to Shepherds Cottage – all of them in our opinion are […]
Tulip Siddiq, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, visited Highgate Society’s Volunteer Fair where local organisations encourage visitors to get involved. The idea behind this was to create an event where people considering the idea of volunteering could meet and chat to local organisations about how they could get involved – on an ad hoc or a regular basis. For the full story click More.
Our Guerrilla Gardening group has been busy with planning for 2024 since our evening workshop in November. Work has included a walk-about through the N6 area to survey 16 potential sites for our activities and developing a map with notes, so that we can assign actions (even if just monitoring) to each site. We are […]
This accident in 2022 at the junction of Cholmeley Park and Highgate Hill demonstrated the need for action to improve safety. Over 6 years ago Channing School, which adjoins the junction, commissioned proposals to improve visibility and pedestrian movement but Haringey Council continues to ignore the problem.