Hornsey Park Road Chaos as Ally Pally parties

Traffic chaos on Hornsey Park Road on Ally Pally fireworks night

Residents suffered more than 24 hours of disruption from noise, pollution, congestion and delay as Alexandra Palace Way was closed from Friday night and traffic, including a stream of buses was diverted to bring Hornsey Park Road to gridlock. This was on top of continued congestion caused by the closure of Colney Hatch Lane (the next nearest north-south connection to Alexandra Palace Way). Meanwhile, the Heartlands spine road, built at a cost of over £5m of public money stands empty. The spine road will shortly provide the means of access for construction of the 1000+ homes for Haringey Heartlands yet London Buses protests their drivers cannot negotiate it - perhaps they need some lessons from Waitrose's drivers, who use the road every day to reach the Chocolate Factory. London Buses should be ashamed for being so obstinate and inconsiderate. Haringey Council should wake up to the harmful effects of their inaction on residents' health and well-being. They promised the spine road would be used to take traffic from Hornsey Park Road but have for six years used every excuse to ignore that promise. The Mayor for London's mapping of air quality in our area shows the damage being done to our health while Haringey Council arrogantly refuses to make changes that would cost nothing. With National Grid planning the demolition of the gas holders and plans afoot for the development of Heartlands, we call upon Haringey Council to come up with plans to protect Hornsey Park Road from further disruption. It will cost them nothing.

The stressful street – a promising discussion about Hornsey Park Road
Life on Hornsey Park Road has been plagued with problems including noise, pollution and crumbling pavements, on top of this there appears to be a lack of strategic vision for the future. Council Leader Peray Ahmet and a few of her fellow councillors came to discuss the issues with our representatives.
A greener neighbourhood in 2022?
Eight of us got out before the rain last Saturday. We cut back a lot of growth at the Lavender Garden ready for winter. Most of what we cleared has now gone down for composting. By John Miles

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A working partnership
Sometime in the next week or so the work on Mayes Road will near completion. It will be a new benchmark for the look and feel of our neighbourhood and enhance its biodiversity. (photo: Luke 'Duke' Newcombe)

Hornsey Park Road Chaos as Ally Pally parties

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