Improving Turnpike Lane

• Update March 2020
• Turnpike Lane’s Future
• Why Turnpike Lane?
• Working together to improve Turnpike Lane
• What are we doing to improve things now?
• More information 

Update - March 2020

The ROJ Café Kiosk

The community want a cleaner, greener and safer Turnpike Lane. One of the plans underway to help make the area safer is to reconfigure the Roj Café kiosk. Working in partnership with the café owners, we would like to create a new café with an indoor seating area and toilet. This will allow customers to sit and enjoy food and drink from the café all year round, and help to activate the north end of the Common.

This project will help create natural surveillance and reduce opportunities for anti-social behaviour, drug dealing and crime to happen.

The planning application for this project is now complete. You can you can still see the proposal on the Planning portal, using the following reference: HGY/2020/0271.

Ducketts Common

As part of our promise to enhance and improve our local area, Haringey Council has been working with the Friends of Ducketts Common to improve the green and open space at Turnpike Lane.

The boundary railings and main entrance archway have been repainted and railings at the northern edge realigned. Some path repairs have been undertaken and future works improving bins and benches are on the way.

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Turnpike Lane’s future

High Streets are the heart and soul of our community and as a council; we want to ensure that our High Streets remain a vibrant and bustling part of community life.  

Turnpike Lane bustles with activity. It has great independent shops with loyal customers and is an important transport hub. But it could be better. 

We want the local community and shop owners to share their views on the future of Turnpike Lane. The communities’ opinions will feed into a collaborative improvement plan, which will support the area’s long-term development. 

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Why Turnpike Lane?

Turnpike Lane is a unique and integral part of Wood Green. It has traditional Victorian terraced street properties with more than 100 shops along its length. It also connects the east and west parts of the borough.

In earlier consultations on the future of Wood Green, the community were very clear that they would like to see Turnpike Lane improved. 

A recent study into Economy and Employment Space in Wood Green identified Turnpike Lane as an area of untapped opportunity. With investment, it has huge potential to be a busy and thriving street meeting local shopping needs and business needs.

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Working together to improve Turnpike Lane

As a council we would like to:

• Deliver community-led regeneration - we want you, the residents, traders and local stakeholders to participate and become partners in the development and future of Turnpike Lane 
• Contribute to a safer environment - Turnpike Lane will be a place where people will have ownership, feeling secure and proud to live and do business
• Enhance public spaces - create a cleaner, greener and safer experience for all users of Turnpike Lane
• Secure a legacy of good design - enhance the unique identity of Turnpike Lane and reflect the vibrant and diverse community that live, work, shop and play there
• Improve safety - design out anti-social behaviour
• Promote local economy - support existing local businesses to grow, attract new businesses to the area and work closely with the Turnpike Lane Traders Association

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What are we doing to improve things now?

A number of activities have taken place to understand the issues affecting the area. 

• Timeline of activity (PDF, 9.5MB)

Issues raised by residents, traders, shoppers and visitors included:

• Anti-Social Behaviour and Crime
• Cleanliness and fly tipping
• Condition of roads and pavements
• Parking and congestion
• Drainage
• Lighting
• Physical Environment
• Lack of greenery and trees

In response we are…

• Antisocial Behaviour and Crime 
  • Partnership working with the Metropolitan Police to identify the offenders involved in drugs activity at Ducketts Common
  • Police and Council increased resources to tackle anti-social behaviour in the area and share intelligence
  • Haringey Council Officers are exploring possible sources of funding to install a CCTV camera to cover Harringay Passage
     
• Dirtiness / Street Cleaning  
  • Litter 
    • Turnpike Lane is swept throughout the day from 7am. Feedback on the quality of the sweep is good 
    • The council has purchased a new deep wash kit and will be carrying out extra cleaning of the pavements
  • Graffiti 
    • The council will remove graffiti, and within 24 hours if offensive or racist. There may be delays if the graffiti is on private property
  • Fly Tipping
    • Fly tipping in this area is typically black bags presented on the pavement at the wrong time of day 
    • The area has two collections each day, one in the morning and one in the evening
    • Businesses have separate commercial contracts for disposal of waste and where this is via a sack collection it should also keep to the advertised time bands
    • The council will check that businesses have arrangements in place for collection of waste
    • Council officers try to prevent fly-tipping by offering advice and guidance, designing out opportunities where possible and enforcing where they are able
       
• Condition of the roads and pavements
  • The council will resurface the rest of the Turnpike Lane in 2019
  • The paving is planned to be inspected and any damaged slabs replaced
  • The extent of further refurbishment and investment will be scoped during the development of the Improvement Plan
     
• Parking restrictions: 
  • Haringey Council has agreed to reconfigure parking spaces on the side roads to create 54 extra pay by phone parking spaces
  • Six underused loading bays have been converted to 18 pay by phone parking spaces
     
• Marketing banners
  • New brackets on lampposts have been installed to enable lamppost banner publicity/marketing campaigns. A trader led campaign to mark Ramadan is currently up on lampposts 
• Festive Lights
  • Haringey Council will install power supply and sockets to support installation of Festive lights, to be ready for Christmas 2019
     
• Liveable Crouch End
  • A ‘Liveable Neighbourhood Project’ is Transport for London initiative which gives boroughs the opportunity to bid for funding for long-term schemes that encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport
  • In December 2017, the council secured funding from Transport for London to deliver a Liveable Neighbourhoods project for Crouch End
  • Haringey’s first liveable neighbourhood in Crouch End will radically change travel behaviour in a part of the borough characterised by high car ownership and a dominance of motor vehicles passing through the town centre
  • There is an aspiration to align future plans for Turnpike Lane with what is happening in Crouch End
  • The council’s aspiration is to bring more people to the area by walking and cycling 
  • Demand shows that there will be an increasing number of cyclists and there is potentially the need to provide a segregated cycle route to join Turnpike lane to Crouch End 

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More information 

• Turnpike Lane's Future - exhibition board (PDF, 658KB)
• Working together - exhibition board (PDF, 181KB)
• Map of Turnpike Lane (PDF, 314KB)

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