We've just had a leaflet through the door - looks like quite a large mail out, introducing us to NextDoor Crouch Hill. Signed off by someone called Fabiana.
I find it a bit up itself I'm afraid. And charging service charge on a coffee is a bit OTT when they're already asking 50p extra for plant milk on a very small cup. It's just a charge too far I'm afraid.
Had my last coffee there a couple of weeks …
Well we finally got a response (a couple of tweets, but no answer at all to my emails) from Haringey Council.
They claim they have no record of the work being done on Osbourne Rd!
They believe it might have been done in error by Islington Counci…
@LukeG I agree re improving housing stock etc, but just not sure another super-expensive 4-bedroom private development really addresses the current issues. There are loads of these recently built around London that simply lie empty as investment opp…
Re last post - have discovered the application
http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=413544
It's a small plot with some protected trees too. The developer lives over in Archway.
I was told by a neighbour this evening that there are planning notices up nearby the garages next to Holly Park opposite the Parkland Walk on Blythwood Road.
Apparently someone wants to tear down the three/four little garages and put up a three-st…
A week and half later and there's no further response from Cllr Chandwani, and no-one at Haringey Council has responded to my email inquiry.
This council is not fit for purpose.
Hornsey Carpets did ours a few years back, but we've just had some replaced and it was pointed out there was some serious scoring on the skirting board which they'd obviously caused. We found M&L very expensive. Eventually settled on Dan and Jam…
Lots of organic stuff, but not all. Great refill stations to cut down on plastic for washing up liquids, vinegars, rice and grains etc. Some very nice carpentry holding up an interesting wine selection. And yes, very friendly staff who want to hear …
I did an FOI a few years back and was shocked to discover the council spends tens of thousands of pounds on Monsanto's evil chemicals. Richard Watts was an idiot over the issue, writing to me that there was no evidence glyphosate was any more danger…
what @cmo said. spot on. also @Scruffy's remark about media literacy.
a handful of bullionaires run the newspapers which then set the agenda for the main broadcast media, and it frames everything in terms of limited resources and blaming each other…
I've received a response from Haringey Parks Department here. To be fair it is quite detailed and was quite swift. You can see that they claim that the work was fully supported by Friends of Parkland Walk, but as we've seen from Cathy Meeus' comment…
XR are still all about handing the decisions over to sortitioned citizen's assemblies who are trained up to listen to a wide array of stakeholders before reaching consensus decisions. I think this is worth a try, and the process has had tremendous s…
Sorry @Grenners but if you think XR and Greta are on the same team as Gates you're really not paying attention. Guardian yes, for sure.
Meanwhile re BBC, when the government has actually been caught out as totally corrupt over PPE contracts during …
Fair enough comment from Cathy, and I really didn't expect them to be the culprits as the work they've done over the years has always filled me with confidence. I wonder whether Haringey sought any advice before this "more extreme" work and whether …
@Arkady the amount of philanthropy that Bill Gates engages in is to do with tax breaks, not his desire to give to good causes. I read an enlightening analysis by some economics expert that showed quite convincingly that were he to give a penny more …
To be fair, I imagine it's all voluntary, and it's not a question of "I want to be the chair but I'm not going to talk to anyone", but rather, "Oh alright, I'm the only one who has any time and energy to be the chair but I'm not very good at social …