Plans for the redevelopment of Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End, one of London’s earliest and finest Modernist-style buildings, have been unveiled. The Grade II* listed town hall, built in the Thirties, was the home of Hornsey Borough Council until 1966 and nowadays is the …
Haringey Council further enhances its reputation: seems its environmental enforcement officers are pusillanimous jobsworths. London youngsters are helping to decide how a youth grant should be spent. The Lee Valley Athletics Centre has landed itself a Best Built award. And Burgess Park was also a …
Fans of CSI disappointed that there is still not a CSI: London on TV can take morbid pleasure in a new state-of-the-art underground mortuary in Haringey. Opened on Monday this week, the whizzy £3million design comes with a sweltering amount of detail: – twice as …
Tottenham Hotspurs’ recent uptick in fortune (new stadium design, new league position, new players) hasn’t been welcomed by everybody: The Victorian Society and English Heritage are upset that the club’s plans for a new ground call for the demolition of several “historic” buildings along Tottenham …
Image courtesy of Nicobobinus via the Londonist flickr group. Haringey’s head of children’s services fired without pay over Baby P Heartless Croydon council tries to confiscate disabled woman’s stuffed toys Carphone Warehouse co-founder forced out by share scandal Hampstead teen wins poetry prize – as …
A man who was wanted in connection with the murder of a caretaker in Kilburn eight years ago has been arrested in Florida.* Mother’s pride: the Queen visits the Prince’s Trust. Tube electricians are planning to strike. Haringey hits a new low on the child …
Londonist likes a good campaign as much as anyone else, which is why we backed the efforts of Team Nice to make London a nicer place to be, putting out 1,000 ‘nice’ tokens into circulation to acknowledge good deeds. Channel 4′s new ‘Battlefront’ programme aims …
The main athletics stadium for the 2012 Games is years away from completion, yet the project’s post-2012 fate has suffered more slings and arrows of outrageous rumour than your average Fawlty Towers cast member’s granddaughter. Stories that it could become West Ham’s new home, see …
If it’s the summer silly season, then it must be time for some nonsensical surveys that cost a lot and deliver little. Ah, here’s one: Haringey-ites are fuming about a report that has ranked borough residents the fugliest folk in all of London-town. This vitally …
A tale here of two local councils and their contrasting approaches to the pressing issue of water usage. Following a government campaign announced earlier this year, Westminster council have binned bottled water from their offices in favour of glugging straight from the tap (via a …
North London rubbish collectors, Haringey Enterprise, have been ordered to remove any soft toys they may have strapped to the front of their trucks as they pose a risk to small children who might be drawn to said, abducted squishies and thereby get squishied themselves, …
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