Environment Archive

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    Community Garden recognised as a ‘World on Your Doorstep’

    Thanks to a generous grant from Homes for Haringey, on behalf of its tenants in Hornsey Park, the Association will be able to give the garden a name and welcome all who find their way to it. The garden is well loved and was recognised...

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    The New Waste Collections – a good start but we need to meet!

    Now, nearly a month into the new collection routine, it is possible to see where the challenges lie.  Predictably, the problem is not the volume of waste but the willingness of residents to change lifelong habits and start recycling at the level of our European...

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    Hornsey in the mist

    Have you ever walked down Hornsey Park Road and imagined the road without the Shopping Centre and Sky City sitting at the end of it? Perhaps you wondered what it would look like if the water works disappeared and the multi-storey car park had never...

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    Snow pictures from Hornsey Park

    Sibil Izzet sent us these lovely pictures of her garden covered in snow. If you have some pictures of snow in Hornsey Park, send them to us and we publish them here!

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    Community Garden trees to be part of Queen’s Jubilee tribute

    The 105 native Englsih trees plated last autumn around the junction of Turnpike Lane and Hornsey Park Road are to become part of the nation’s tribute to the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee. Donated by the Woodland Trust, they are part of 6 million tree...

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  • Traffic congestion on Hornsey Park Road remains a problem

    Update on calls for another look at successfull one way system

    The Association’s calls for a meeting with councillors and managers at the council to learn lessons from the one way system in Hornsey Park Road last autumn have been answered, partly through the offer to join a group to look at how Wood Green’s town...

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    Fortnightly general waste collections for Hornsey Park

    On Monday (9th January 2012), representatives from Sustainable Haringey, Haringey Federation of Residents Associations and individual RAs in the affected wards met with the council and Veolia to discuss the shift to fortnightly waste collection, due to start in the west of the borough in March....

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    Community Garden – Heartlands School Mosaic ready to start

    Creating a mosaic as part of the community garden project has long been a hope.  Thanks to Haringey Council’s making the Difference funding, we have now raised enough money and support to make it possible and want to get started. With the support of the local...

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    Get your hands dirty…

    . In a collaboration with our neighbours in Denmark Road, we planted tens of tiny saplings around the Turnpike Lane junction on Saturday. The young plants are a mix of Rowan, Birch, Hazel, Oak and Hawthorn and were a gift from the Woodland Trust. In time...

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    Hornsey Park Road–One Way Street Log

    Hornsey Park Road is no longer a temporary one way street. This page logs our experiences during and after National Grid works have taken their course…

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