Developers out and thousands of pounds improvements for Down Lane Park

Publication date: Wednesday 17 March 2010

Down Lane Park in Tottenham Hale will not be used for a new housing development and will instead receive over £250,000 for improvement works, residents heard this week.

At the Tottenham and Seven Sisters Area Assembly on Monday, Haringey Council Leader Claire Kober said that new housing would be confined to existing developed land in the area and that Down Lane Park improvement works will begin immediately, subject to Cabinet approval next week.

The southern part of Down Lane Park had been identified as a potential site for new housing as part of one of two development options for the Ashley Road area of Tottenham Hale. This option - the Park 'land swap' - meant parkland would be released for new homes with a corresponding extension of the park on the north side.  

The other option was to develop new homes, business space, shops and community facilities solely on existing developed land - including the site occupied by the reuse and recycling depot on Ashley Road/Park View Road.  

The response to public consultation overwhelmingly opposed the 'land swap' option in favour of option two.

Leader Claire Kober, said:

"We had a great response to the public consultation and I promised this would influence the recommendation to the council's Cabinet. That so, with the vast majority of residents favouring retention and improvement of all the park land, the recommendation to Cabinet next week will be to focus new development on existing developed land, retaining all the park."

The council received 225 responses to the consultation leaflet, and two public meetings were attended by over 50 people with two petitions received with a total of approximately 607 signatures opposing the "land swap" option.  

Subject to Cabinet approval, plans to improve the Park can be taken forward in conjunction with the Friends of Down Lane Park.  

The first phase of improvements, with allocated funding totalling £255,000, can go ahead straightaway with the detailed measures to be designed and agreed with the Friends of the Park.

Further improvements will be dependent on securing additional funding, including from developments (via section 106) in the Tottenham Hale area.

A detailed analysis of the consultation responses is available.

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