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.
To read the report click More.
A better Highgate High Street?
A Highgate Society member has put forward an intriguing proposal for making the centre of the village a more welcoming, pedestrian-oriented place. To find out more, click More
Fundraising for third defibrillator in Highgate
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.
Dangerous driving
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 […]
Christmas Market in the Old Bus Stand
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.
Tidy-up programme for 2024 published
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.
Carols in Pond Square a great success
Carols in Pond Square this year was a great success , thanks to the hard work of over 25 Highgate Society volunteers. The rain cleared up just in time and our two chosen charities, North London Hospice and Jacksons Lane for their Christmas Day Lunch, raised over £2,200.15 December 2023
Calling all guerrillas
The Community Projects group has been taking on “guerrilla gardening” challenges in public spaces around Highgate for several years. The photo shows the newly planted cattle trough in Church Road which is a great example of what they can do. For more information click More.
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
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.
Highgate School plans: what next?
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Six weeks ago, we were facing a planning process with huge momentum and would very likely by now be putting dates in our diaries for the planning committee meetings to consider the applications. Instead thanks to the public meeting we now have a clearly expressed view from the Highgate community asking the School to think […]
Highgate School plans: public meeting report
The public meeting about Highgate School’s planning applications was a great success. Catherine West was an excellent chair, and we had a very good turnout, estimated at nearly 250 people including online. For full details click More
Highgate School planning applications – read this first
Planning applications have now been submitted to Haringey Council for the School’s 10-year building programme which involves four main sites: Dyne House and the Science Block in the village; and Richards Music Centre and Mallinson Centre in Bishopswood Road. There would if approved by the Council be a near doubling in size of the total […]
