Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Willoughby Road
I must have completely missed this but see that this house is now on an Auction site having gained permission to build a new house where there was a garage and convert the existing in to multiple flats with what seems an additional floor. I am a bit surprised, I didn't think anymore house conversions were allowed on the Ladder.
http://www.lansdowneauctions.co.uk/current-lots-available?lid=44461...
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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It looks like a demolition and new-build to me, rather than a conversion. I hope the planning permission addressed the road safety issue there, since the house is at the corner of Willoughby and Frobisher Roads and the current garden layout blinds drivers to intersecting traffic until far too close to the T-junction.
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It's a conversion, not a rebuild: Conversion and extension of existing detached building to provide 2 x 3 bed, 1 x 2 bed and 1 x 1bed flats, demolition of existing garage at rear and erection of new 3 bed detached house.
Planning application here.
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Shocking that they are creating 5 dwellings in what would have been a family home. All this is making me very nervous - reminds me of the late 1980s
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What's shocking about creating much needed new homes? It looks like a perfectly attractive and well thought out development to me.
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Can I also add that this house is no architectural beauty. I think the new development is a definite improvement.
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Well yes Nick G-T, perhaps it's the old tag that I've had the same broom for 30 years, it's only had two new heads and one new handle - my quick opinion was from looking at the completely different elevations and the different side-plan for example (bay windows extended out, or recessed doorway in). I'm not bothered either way and I'm not looking to provoke a dispute!
As posted elsewhere the current structure is perhaps inelegant and the footprint can be better used to supply more accommodation. In the overall debate about accommodation supply and demand, and buildings density, this development perhaps is less contentious than the former CAB building further down Willoughby Road as linked below.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Liz posted about this road about ten days ago.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Our terraced houses actually devalue the land that they sit upon. If everyone in a terrace could agree to demolish it and build again more densely they would have a million pounds in cash and live at the same address, albeit more closely to their neighbours and not in a Victorian House.
That is the the kind of economics you are fighting here, before we even talk about the need for more houses in London.
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How much closer can you get to your neighbours than in a terraced house?
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Yes I am sure Haringey planning would like that. Maybe that is a project. We could create "Frobisher Towers", "Falkland Towers", "Lausanne Towers", etc. I know we need more housing but all which seems to happen round here is lots of flats and no family housing. The developers are not thinking of the future of the area they just want to create returns asap and Haringey is not keeping up with NHS and School facilities. I just see a repeat of the 1980s and think that the developers are the biggest winners.
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There isn't a need for family housing. We have street after street of Victoria terraced family houses. Of course you need to have at least £600k to buy one... but we're not all lucky enough to do that
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