Crouch End Liberal Democrat councillor David Winskill is calling for a meeting between property developers Gold Crest and Crouch End residents living in Haringey Park and Weston Park to discuss the future of the site purchased for £2.5 million earlier this year.

Ever since the land that currently houses lock up garages and a car repair workshop was sold there has been great anxiety amongst local residents over the future of the site and concerns about the density and concentration of any possible housing development. Fears have recently been stoked by the over enthusiastic use of bailiffs to clear the site.

Cllr Winskill has already contacted Haringey’s conservation officer and building control department over rumours that demolition on the site was imminent.

He comments:

“We would like to meet the developers urgently to find out what they have in mind for the site and represent the concerns of residents whose property border the site.

“Anxieties over the development are held by many residents, who quite literally, fear development at the bottom of their gardens. This is the result of the current Government’s changes to planning. Hornsey and Crouch End have become a honey pot for developers with the threat that the area could lose much of its village atmosphere with more pressure piled on the infrastructure [schools, transport, health services].

“I will be working with my colleagues Cllr Ron Aitken and Cllr Lynne Featherstone to ensure that all the concerns of the community are voiced when I meet Haringey planning chiefs.”