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Members of the Society worked intensively over the Christmas period on our response to Haringey’s Draft Local Plan, a complex 500+ page document. Our submission ran to more than 30 pages, reflecting both the scale of the Plan and the seriousness of its implications for Highgate and the wider borough. Central to our concerns is […]

Highgate Repair Café to open.  opening Saturday, 14 February 2026, 10-1, St. Michael’s Church, South Grove N6 6BJ encouraging a repair culture to save the planet and your purse usually every second Saturday of the month Haringey Fixers will donate their time and skill get help fixing\mending\repairing household goods including textiles supported by the vicar […]

Two important reports of consultations on travel and transport have recently been published, the Hampstead Streets for People survey on 21 November and the Co-Design Engagement report for the Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood (DPHN) on 28 November. The DPHN had attracted very many responses and sensibly Camden “sent it back to the drawing board” in […]

Following the Mayor of London’s decision to “call in” the highly controversial Archway Campus redevelopment, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has confirmed that it expects the applicant to submit further information on the proposals. Any new material will be released for public consultation.Because of this additional stage, no date has yet been set for the […]

Haringey Council has approved the controversial proposal to build 14 flats and 2 houses on the Wellington Gyratory, the polluted, traffic-dominated roundabout at the junction of Archway Road, North Hill and the A1, despite strong objections from the Highgate Society and many local residents. The decision, taken unanimously by the Planning Committee on 6 November, […]

Two local councillors have launched a petition for the Star pub in Chester Road to be relisted as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). The Highgate Society fully support keeping a pub in this location, and encourages residents to support it.  An ACV protects a building which is valuable to the community in its existing […]

The Highgate Society is often contacted by residents about traffic speeds and congestion. We are therefore investing in a citizen powered solution to provide open access traffic data using Telraam sensors which are small devices about half the size of a mobile phone.  They continuously monitor and count passing traffic, including large and small motorised vehicles, two wheeled traffic such […]

Saturday December 6th 2025 and weekly on Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm Working with Camden we have initiated a Saturday Farmers Market on the former 271 bus stand. We aim to bring people to the Village on Saturdays, with food from hand picked producers. Initially it’s starting small with 4 stalls and hope […]