September | October 2011

Alexandra Palace received national recognition in Parliament in February, when our local MP highlighted the Palace at Prime Minister’s Questions as an iconic British venue and emphasised the importance of continued investment in securing its future for the next century. The events and cultural programme continue to perform strongly. Recent highlights include concerts and residencies…

Since our last report in March, there have been 74 applications in the Wards that the Association is concerned with and no objections lodged. Although this is almost double the volume last reported it is still an historically low number presumably reflecting financial and geopolitical confidence, or rather lack of it. The majority of the…

Main points from the latest Board of Trustees of the Alexandra Palace and Park Charitable Trust meeting:

11 Lansdowne Road HGY/2025/2852 – Provision of a large rear extension Earlier in the year we wrote to the Council in support of the objectors to this application. Subsequently a revised scheme was submitted and has now been granted permission. However, many of the objectors have stated that the revisions made will not constitute a…

Haringey Parks Department – General We walked around Muswell Hill with the Parks Manager and Cllr Cathy Brennan on Monday 9th February 2026. The Parks Manager was aware that their service had not been up to standard over the past year. He explained that this was because of unexpected staff shortages, the project manager had…

Santander Bank 105 -111 Muswell Hill Broadway. (HGY/2026/0838) The proposed upgrade of the premises includes the installation of a 46-inch digital merchandising tv display screen in the window. This would be switched on permanently and would show marketing slides to passers by with the slides changing every 30 seconds. We sent a comment to state…