I found out this week that whacky plans by Haringey to flog some council land on the Archway Road for housing are on hold for now, as the deal to sell the site has fallen through.The plans for the sale of 505 Archway Road are the responsibility of Finance Labour cabinet member Charles Adje, of multiple calamity fame (see earlier posts).
The site, in the middle of the Wellington gyratory at the top of the Archway Road, is currently home to the car wash next to the petrol station. Charles Adje, in what was no doubt another piece of aggravated bungling, wanted to sell it off for housing.
I turned up at the Cabinet meeting last year, when the decision was being taken, to say that shoving a block of flats into the middle of the roundabout was a crackpot idea. There was some slight shuffling in seats from Labour cabinet members, who until then hadn’t grasped this, but they voted it through.
As a sideshow, I also protested that Haringey had made this entire plan ‘exempt’. Otherwise known as ‘secret.’ They backed down, and the report was subsequently published, with some bits ‘redacted’. Otherwise known as ‘blanked out’.
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