FROM AROUND HERE Tottenham Employment Study gorT SCOY A study prepared for Haringey Council by Gort Scott between January and June 2013. The project was supported by the Mayor of London. contact: Fiona Scott Gort Scott Ltd The Print House 18 Ashwin Street London E8 3DL UK E: [email protected] T: 020 7254 6294 www.gortscott.com Thanks: Abake graphic designers, LYST, all the businesses who participated in this study and especially in the “From Around Here” exhibition. With special thanks to Mark Brearley, former head of Design for London, for initiating the “From Around Here” approach to the investigation and celebration of local industrial places. GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 2 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION p.4 CONTEXT 1. HISTORY + CONTEXT p.7 2 . SURVEY AREA p.8 3. DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT p.11 SURVEY 4. SURVEY METHODOLOGY p.13 5. SURVEY STATISTICAL OUTCOMES p.15 6. SURVEY NARRATIVE OUTCOMES p.48 7. FROM AROUND HERE SHOP p.55 CONCLUSIONS 8. CONCLUSIONS p.59 APPENDICES p.64 APPENDIX 1: PHOTOGRAPHS APPENDIX 2: PRODUCTION NUMBERS APPENDIX 3: BUSINESS SUMMARIES APPENDIX 4: DEA MAPS AND ASSOCIATED SPREADSHEETS APPENDIX 5: ABBREVIATIONS 3 INTRODUCTION Background increasingly under pressure from Industrial areas in London are not well- commercial mixed-use development. understood. Most people have no idea what is made and assembled in their Loss of employment land has an impact borough, because industrial areas are on levels of local employment and unwelcoming and do not have a public economic activity and business rates face. It is difficult to gain an appreciation of revenue. The presence of trades and skills their scale and purpose without observing and manufacturing in London, is also them first hand. This project provides challenged. the opportunity to enquire into the scale of industrial uses and outputs in some key employment areas in Tottenham, in the Lea Valley. We aim to understand the variety of different types of business in some of the defined employment areas, establish contacts wherever possible, and communicate our findings in a way that is both robust and accessible. The ambition is that this study will help shift perceptions of the industrial areas in the borough, emphasising their positive contribution to the character and identity of the area. Further, the aim is to provide a motivation to boost business, invest in growth and help in finding ways to create new jobs in the Borough. Experience elsewhere in the Lea Valley, and isolated case studies suggested there could be rich variety and sometimes surprising range of activities in the industrial areas. London’s traditional manufacturing bases may have diminished, Team Members: moved outside London or overseas, but the places they used to inhabit are still heavily used by many smaller organisations than Gort Scott Architects previously, including professional services, Project lead charities, creative and media companies, Research and survey as well as much distribution, export and import. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) Now the historic industrial and Mapping support manufacturing places in London, such as those in the Upper Lea Valley, are GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 4 CONTEXT 1. HISTORY + CONTEXT 2 . SURVEY AREA 3. DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT 5 6 Redemption Brewery Photo © Philipp Ebeling 1 HISTORY + CONTEXT Tottenham Hale began as a Hamlet by the • Millingtons and Sons: Stationery River Lea. Nothing from this time remains company excpet for the canal. A paper mill existed • Eagle Pencil company. Became Berol here in the 18th century. In the early 20th Ltd in 1969 and moved out in 1992. century industry flourished in the area, • JA Prestwich (JAP): The founder was with nationally-important industries led by a prolific inventor and the company inventive enterpreneurs. By the late 20th made numerous innovations. Started century, many of the very big businesses out with photographic equipment, left the area, and factories had become pioneered flight tecnhology, made sheds, and a new road cut through from motorcylces and subsequently made Tottenham Green to Tottenham Hale engines and munitions in WW1. Closed Station. The importance of this station in 1963 due to overseas competition. grew when it became a key junction to Stansted airport. From the 1960s and 1970s the large businesses declined and the area became again dominated by smaller businesses. 100 years of intense production Workshops and warehouses were joined Jim Lewis in his book “London’s Lea Valley: by wholesalers and retailers, mechanics More Secrets Revealed” speculated that and menders, as well as service providers, there were more inventions in the Lea charities and religious institutions. Valley than anywhere else in the World. There is a common assumption that the Although there was little large-scale change in use of the industrial areas from industry in Tottenham prior to 1890, from large-scale production-line manufacture to the early 1800s there were some factories, smaller-scale and more varied companies, including the Tottenham paper mills, lace means that industrial areas are less making factories, silk-winding, a rubber important and less in need of protection. factory, various breweries including the We do not see evidence to support this Bell Brewery. Later in the 19th century, view. Although the areas have changed these factories and breweries were over the years, the premise of this report, joined by printers, coach builders, piano is that Tottenham’s industrial areas support makers, and many other small trades and many businesses, and that they must workshops. continue to evolve and change in order to support London’s growing economy and From the 1900s onwards, industry was very growing population. prolific. Below are some key names: • Harris Lebus: Furniture maker: a factory of 40 acres. Started in Whitechapel, he expanded to Tottenham for space and transport reasons. Closed in 1969. • David Gestetner: duplication machines for offices. Closed in 1980s due to emergence of photocopiers. GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 7 2 SURVEY AREA The site area, shown on the following are seen as helping to provide essential pages, was chosen in consultation with LB community infrastructure. Haringey. 3.2 Industrial Land across London The areas surveyed do not represent all The map overleaf shows Industrial Land of the industry, manufacture and general use across London, and shows Tottenham’s production business in Tottenham, or in strategic location within the Upper Lea Haringey. However, an analysis of the Valley. Although some of Tottenham’s industrial class of land use in the area businesses are locally-orientated, the revealed that the vast majority is located majority have a relationship with London in the Defined Employment Areas. It is for as a whole, and therefore the strategic this reason that the DEAs represent the position and context of diminishing boundaries of this study. The study is also Industrial Land across London needs to be restricted to those DEAs that are in the taken into account. Upper Lea Valley area. The survey area therefore includes 10 Defined Employment Areas (DEA), as shown on the map overleaf. These DEAs are made up of Strategic Industrial Locations, Locally Significant Industrial Sites (LSIS) and Local Employment Areas 3.1 Strategic Industrial Locations (SIL) Many of the Borough’s Defined Employment Areas are also within Strategic Industrial Locations, as designated in the London Plan, providing a Londonwide network of spaces for Industry, Business and Warehousing. SIL areas amongst our sites include: Brantwood Road (DEA3), Garman Road/Unicorn Works (DEA12), Millmead and Lockwood (DEA11). Most uses will be in the B use classes. 3.2 Local Employment Areas (LEA) and Locally Significant Industrial Sites (LSIS) Local Employment Areas are identified in the Core Strategy (now known as the Local Plan) as places in the borough where businesses are strategically located. However there is a more flexible treatment than with SIL, and some employment activities may fall outside B use classes. In principle some mixed use development Segment of plan figure 5.1 from the Local Plan showing em- ployment land designations GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 8 Surveyed sites South Tottenham - DEA14 Rangemoor Rd Industrial Area - DEA22 Rosebery Industrial Park - DEA10 Greater Ashley Road - DEA15 Hale Wharf - DEA7 Millmead +Lockwood Estates - DEA11 Brantwood Road - DEA3 Garman Road + Unicorn Works - DEA12 Leeside Industrial Estate- DEA18 Peacock Industrial Estate - DEA9 Strategic Industrial Locations (SIL) RAIL Upper Lea Valley BUS gort scoy Map showing sites visited during the research period of the ‘From Around Here’ project GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 9 GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 10 3 DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT The borough has recently developed “A Plan For Tottenham”. The borough is being supported by the ‘Tottenham Taskforce’; made up of private sector experts and representatives of the GLA and Haringey Council this group is advising the regeneration programme for Tottenham and using its knowledge and contacts to make investment and regeneration happen straight away. The plan sets out Haringey’s vision until 2025, and how to achieve objectives in the immediate and long term. The plan aims at building better since the riots of August 2011, through economic growth, investment, improved neighbourhoods and regeneration of key sites The Plan states that by 2025, there will be: • Up to 10,000 new high quality homes • Over 5,000 new jobs created or accessed with almost a million square feet of employment and commercial space added • A new leisure destination in Northumberland Park, serviced by a new White Hart Lane station and improved public realm that enhances the local high street and becomes a genuine year round destination • A new civic hub and excellent open space at Tottenham Green • A new gateway to Seven Sisters • A revamped station at Tottenham Hale, suitable for an international transport and growth hub GORT SCOTT Tottenham Employment Study 2013 11 SURVEY 4.