Tottenham High Road Historic Corridor

• Background Information
• Conservation Area Character Appraisals
• Conservation Area Descriptions, Contemporary and Historic Maps
• Shopfront Design Guide
• Heritage Renewal and Action Plans

Background Information

Tottenham High Road forms the main arterial route into central London from the north across the east of the borough, and has done so for as long as two thousand years. The Roman road known as Ermine Street followed at least parts of the route. Through the Middle Ages, most of the settlement of Tottenham was strung out along the road, which continued to form a major inter-city route, evidenced by the cross of mediaeval origin at High Cross.

From the early eighteenth century fashionable grand neo-classical houses, many surviving today, were built along the High Road, less than a days ride from London. Then with railways and tramways of the nineteenth century, suburbanisation and industry took over. But this only caused the High Road to increase in importance with grand, significant civic and commercial buildings built to serve the expanding community.

Today Tottenham High Road continues to form both a major arterial route and a thriving commercial, cultural and community centre, coexisting with surviving buildings and street patterns from its long history.

Conservation Area Character Appraisals

Government advice expresses the need for local planning authorities to adopt and publish character appraisals for the conservation areas in their borough and review and update them on a regular basis.

The Tottenham High Road Historic Corridor Character Appraisal, adopted on 26 February 2007, is available to download in the attached file section below.

Further work has been done to update this 2007 character appraisal, the updated review version is also available to download in the attached file section below. This review was last updated in August 2008.

The Character Appraisal for the Tottenham High Road Historic Corridor covers 6 conservation areas.

Conservation Area Descriptions, Contemporary and Historic Maps

There are contemporary and historical maps and further information on each of these Conservation Areas on their separate web pages. Follow the links below for this information.

• North Tottenham
• Bruce Grove and Scotland Green
• Tottenham Green
• Seven Sisters/Page Green and South Tottenham

Shopfront Design Guide

The Tottenham High Road Shopfront Design Guide was written in 1989, yet remains a valid and informative design guidance document. The council encourages and seeks to ensure shopfronts both new and existing follow this guidance and refer to it when considering planning applications and making heritage renewal grants. The document can be downloaded from the attached Files section below.

Heritage Renewal and Action Plans

The Council seeks to secure the heritage assets and historic environment of Tottenham High Road through Heritage Renewal Regeneration Programmes and Action Plans. Current work is described in detail on our Area Based Strategies page. Documents from the earlier Action Plan are available below.

Tottenham High Road Historic Corridor Conservation Area Partnership Scheme Action Plan

The table below sets out the contents of the Tottenham High Road Historic Corridor Conservation area Partnership Scheme Action Plan. The Action Plan was approved by Planning Committee on 10 February 1998 and by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund on 27 March 1998.

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Attached Files