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.
The Highgate Society’s Environment Committee’s Spring 2024 report has been published. As well as reporting on the many planning applications and proposals that the committee has considered and commented on, the report also covers meetings with Camden and Haringey planners and provides an update on national planning policies.
To read the report click More.
In 2019 the Highgate Society worked with pH.7 Life in Balance on the installation of two devices in Highgate and has since arranged London Ambulance Service defibrillator and resuscitation training for local residents. It is now fundraising for a third device and additional training. For more information and to learn how to donate click More.
We desperately need measures to slow down the traffic on Highgate Hill between Bisham Gardens and Hornsey Lane. A member who lives in Highgate Hill reports:“Yesterday [on 14th December] at 12.15 I was dropping our son home from nursery at 12.15 – a car overtook all the others (maybe 5 or 6) driving at normal […]
It was lovely to see the centre of the village so buzzy on a cold day at the beginning of December. In spite of the bitterly cold weather, we demonstrated that a small market in the Old Bus Stand would add to the commercial life of the village.
The Highgate Society Community Projects Group has published its programme of Tidy-up events for 2024. These monthly litter-picking events take place on Saturday mornings and last an hour. Volunteers welcome. For details click More.
