In this issue: The Art of Printmaking: from Michelangelo to Rembrandt to Picasso.The Greenground Map: joining the dots between London’s parks and nature spots.Member Profile: Linda Alliston. Protecting playing fields.Planning Matters: Whitehall Lodge, Pages LaneShort Story Competition: the runners-up. John Reid’s Alien-nation and Martyn Burstyn’s 1944-2010.Connected Communities: helping local groups and organisations.Parkland Walk: a chewing-gum…
A group of seven oak and hornbeam trees in Coldfall Wood, an ancient woodland and nature reserve, are threatened with felling. Haringey Council have agreed to cut them down following a request from property insurers who maintain that the trees are causing subsidence to a nearby property. Haringey have agreed to suspend the felling pending…
FOLLOW-UP MEETING The former care home at Cranwood House, located at the junction of Muswell Hill Road and Woodside Avenue, has been sitting empty for many years and more recently has been used as a men’s night shelter. Haringey Council has submitted plans for a new housing development to be placed on the site after…
Have your say on Heritage and Design Haringey Council is inviting all MHFGA members to a virtual public consultation on Heritage and Design taking place on Tuesday 12th January at 1pm-2.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm.The Council is taking its first steps towards creating a New Local Plan to set out how planning policies for the borough grows and develops through to 2037. The New…
In this issue: Muswell Hill Library: successful campaign to save and upgrade the building.Muswell Hill birthday: 110 years old!Member Profile: Maurice Collins OBE. Compositor, charity activist and collector.Members’ Letters: double yellow lines; proposed Woodlands Conservation Area.Short Story Competition: John Crompton winning entry.Haringey Parks and Green Space Strategy: preview of the Tree and Woodland Plan 2021-31.Litter…