4.11. Area 7: Crouch End and Stroud Green

This area is located in the central western part of the borough and comprises Hornsey, Crouch End and Stroud Green. The area is predominantly residential with a green, leafy character. It is home to a number of thriving centres and some important natural and cultural assets. The area is home to two designated Neighbourhood Forums. Crouch End Neighbourhood Forum is currently proposing to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan based on six key areas: design and character, housing, environment, transport, economy, and social and community. Finsbury Park and Stroud Green Neighbourhood Forum is currently seeking to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan based around a vision of making their neighbourhood a sustainable, liveable and prosperous community. Key focuses include designating areas for regeneration and conservation, improving the environment, transport and connectivity, delivering community facilities in line with growth and ensuring that change befits everyone.

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Key Characteristics Key Characteristics Key Characteristics The area contains a good stock of quality terraced The area’s population spread broadly mirrors that The wider area includes the open environments houses lining pleasant and well-designed streets. seen in Haringey but with an under-representation of Alexandra Park as well as Finsbury Park. These The wards have small, compact, urban village of younger people. It is one of the more affluent settings, along with many more local open spaces characters. Across the wider area, the level of socially areas of the borough, with higher education and skills and parks, play a role in making the area a leisure and rented households varies considerably. Socially levels, and good health outcomes. There is a strong recreation destination. The small, compact, urban rented households are under-represented in Crouch local art and creative scene. village character makes it a walkable neighbourhood End and Stroud Green compared to Haringey, while with a comfortable scale and feel. There is good Hornsey households are slightly more likely to be transport connectivity around Finsbury Park Station. social rented. Opportunities Opportunities ÎÎ Additional sites can be identified to ÎÎ The Hornsey Town Hall redevelopment scheme Opportunities accommodate new social infrastructure, such as will secure the restoration of a Grade II* listed the Water Works site which could be converted building and enable continued public access to ÎÎ The homogeneity in scale and roofline is the for recreation and enhance connections with the Town Hall in the long term together with new most important characteristic of the area and Alexandra Park housing, a hotel, arts activity, workspace and should be preserved ÎÎ Improved access to Parkland Walk as a recreation related uses ÎÎ There is scope for new development within resource, having regard to the need to protect ÎÎ Create a node with activity and improved estates or at sites along the railway line, which biodiversity pedestrian environment at the northern end of are currently in employment use ÎÎ Reinforce the strong community identity across Tottenham Lane by Hornsey Station ÎÎ New development should generally adhere Stroud Green Road through cross-borough ÎÎ Improve access to Alexandra Park and Finsbury to the low-rise medium density character of cooperation Park from surrounding residential areas established Victorian and Edwardian street- based layouts, but there is opportunity for family- ÎÎ Strengthen Priory Road as a green link sized houses on small plots drawing upon the existing urban form ÎÎ The Clock Tower landmark space in Crouch End could be improved ÎÎ The Hornsey Town Hall redevelopment scheme will deliver 146 new homes including 11 affordable homes

58 | New Local Plan First Steps Engagement ÎÎ Protect and enhance Broadway Parade businesses, cafes and restaurants. There is a to include an excellent run of consistent diverse mix of local independents that give the shops and flats centres their distinctive community characters. Local arts and creative scenes are evident with ÎÎ Better connections and entrances to Crypt, King’s Head Pub (live music venue), and Finsbury Park from Stroud Green Road, an Arthouse Cinema all within Crouch End Upper Tollington Park and from Parklands alone. Walk What do you think? ÎÎ Reinforce the activity node at Harringay station – improve the public realm, better Opportunities N22. Do you agree with the challenges/ design of bridge, shopfront improvements ÎÎ Consolidating the uses along the High and wider community led enhancements opportunities that have been identified Street in Hornsey would create a more for Crouch End and Stroud Green? Why/ ÎÎ Make use of the Mount View Road centralised retail centre, enhanced by why not? covered reservoir – potential to create a existing open spaces such as the St Mary’s Churchyard and Priory Park at either end neighbourhood park or wildflower meadow N23. Are there any additional ÎÎ Enhance the distinctive avenues street ÎÎ Public realm improvements could further challenges/opportunities that the New improve the quality of the centre with tree planting, seating and homezone Local Plan can help address and how? style improvements. Improvements along enhancement of existing landscape Stroud Green Road, especially under the features railway bridges – improve lighting, public N24. We would like your views on sites ÎÎ Meet demand for more commercial space realm in the area that could support new and improve the range of offers in the town centre in Crouch End by expanding the development in the future. Please refer defined District Centre down Tottenham to section 6.2 where we are undertaking Economy Lane a ‘call for sites’ and section 6.3 where ÎÎ Encouraging well-designed mixed use we are seeking views on sites that are Key Characteristics developments with lively, active frontage already allocated for particular uses in will enhance the shopping experience Overall, the area has an unemployment our existing Local Plan. rate lower than both the borough-wide and ÎÎ Continued cross-borough collaboration London levels, and median household income for Finsbury Park District Centre including is substantially higher than the Haringey and through the Finsbury Park Business London averages. The high streets within the Network wider area contain a wide variety of shops,

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