Highgate Library Consultation – Have Your Say!
Haringey Council is proposing substantial cuts to its library service opening hours. For Highgate Library on Shepherds Hill, this could mean a reduction in opening hours by up to 53%. These cuts are part of broader reductions to Haringey’s Library Services. Despite significant opposition, Haringey Council approved these cuts in March 2024. The cuts disproportionately […]
Local Volunteers Step Up in Traffic Light Fiasco
Highgate High Street has recently experienced traffic disruption due to ongoing work by UK Power Networks. As part of this work, temporary traffic lights operated by tbf Traffic were installed to control the flow of northbound and southbound traffic. All appeared to be running smoothly until the evening of Wednesday 18 September when chaos erupted.In […]
Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood Public Meeting
Highgate Society Hosts Public Meeting on Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood traffic proposals A recording of the meeting is available here. A list of speakers is shown at the end of this update. The Highgate Society hosted a well-attended public meeting on 3 September at La Sainte Union School to discuss the Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood […]
Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood – Interim Community Progress Report
Note: For the most up to date information visit dphnjointaction.com Introduction The London Boroughs of Camden and Islington launched, on 8 July 2024, a ‘co-design’ phase of a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme. This ‘engagement’ (said not to be a ‘consultation’) is, unless the period is extended, for 6 weeks until 18 August. Representations have […]
Guerrilla gardeners hard at work in Archway Road and North Road
In Archway Road our gardeners have been working hard at turning the neglected planters into mini-gardens to delight all who walk along the road from Highgate towards Archway Bridge. Can you help with keeping them watered? If so, please get in touch.Earlier, in May they tackled the green space next to Gonnermann’s shop near the Shepherds […]
Update on the DPHN traffic proposals campaign
The Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood (DPHN) low traffic neighbourhood proposals are the biggest traffic change in a generation. Camden and Islington Councils have run a poor engagement process, and the scheme seems badly designed, risking traffic chaos and greater pollution. The scheme would shut off streets, pushing traffic into the congested Highgate area via Highgate […]
Highgate School Workshops Update
Following the public meeting in June 2023 in response to Highgate School’s large-scale development plans across a number of their sites, and as a result of the Highgate Society’s request to set up community workshops with the school and local groups, we are pleased to report that the workshops are now underway. There have been […]
Dartmouth Park Area Healthy Neighbourhood
Image: Regular Gridlock on Highgate West Hill. Photo at 10.30am on 17 November 2023.
The Fair in the Square 2024
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 […]
Speeding on Highgate Hill
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 […]
59th AGM of the Highgate Society
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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Highgate School – progress with workshops
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 […]
Stakeholder Meeting to Discuss Archway Road Regeneration
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 continued fight to protect Shepherd’s Cottage
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 […]
Volunteering in Highgate
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.
Guerrilla gardening update
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 […]
Dangerous junction on Highgate Hill
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.
Latest Environment Committee report published
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.
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