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Tewkesbury Road Open Space

view of warehouse units with an overgrow plot of grass in front
view of warehouse units with an overgrow plot of grass in front

Tewkesbury Road Open Space

Tewkesbury Road Open Space consists of an open park and a basket ball court. Owned by Haringey Council, the area is for the local community to use – both warehouse tenants and residents living nearby. This is actually the largest plot of green space in the warehouse district, yet it appears under-utilised by both warehouse tenants and local residents.

There has been tension with Haringey council and local residents on and off for years. This partly due to noise complaints and creeping boundaries (on paper the warehouse footprint should only be c.1m from each unit). 

If we can get some consensus, a proposal can be drawn up and put to Haringey Council and Provewell for investment to improve the green space for everyone.

In particular, the team are keen to know your thoughts on:

  1. Why the green space is under-utilised?
  2. What changes would make it more welcoming?
  3. Events and gatherings that could utilise the space?
  4. How the boundary between warehouse units and the general park users could be better defined?
  5. And really importantly, what can be done to build better connections with the neighbouring residents of Tiverton Road?

Supporting Imagery

TEWKESBURY RD ENTRANCE

ARIAL PERSPECTIVE

CENTRAL PATHWAY

REAR OF SOME OVERBURY RD UNITS

Updates

Parklets on Overbury Road

Warehouse Sharing Schemes / ZipCar

poster on a wall saying take sharing offline
poster on a wall saying take sharing offline

Warehouse Sharing Schemes / ZipCar

The close proximity of like minded neighbours living in Harringay Warehouse District often means informal sharing arrangements are in place. It’s not unusual to swap tools, furniture, even the odd pot and pan from a warehouse neighbour. 

The planning team are keen to know whether there is interest in developing more formal schemes that share resources more collectively.

What resources could be better shared between warehouse units? Add your ideas in the form below.

ZipCar – Car / Van Sharing
First raised as a discussion topic in a Meet Up of warehouse tenants in 2019. The idea of counteracting the loss of some car parking space with the addition vehicle sharing options received a warm response.

The team are still in discussion with Haringey council, who are looking at sites for a potential ZipCar scheme.

If you like the sound of this idea, please do share a comment or raise a question in the form below.

Outdoor Spaces

Outdoor seating
Outdoor seating

Outdoor Spaces - what could be added?

“A lot of thought has been given to what happens inside the warehouses, but very little thought has been given to the spaces in between.” Chris Horn

What functions and features would you like to see in some of the open spaces between the warehouses?

Help the team understand what you would like to see added to various open spaces, courtyards and car parks across the warehouse district. This question is mainly focusing on the communal areas – accessible to all warehouse tenants. 

Possible Ideas could include:

  • Makers space – to accommodate larger construction more suited to outside / outside under cover
  • Electricity power points 
  • Larger communal dinning tables
  • More collective growing space
  • Scope to cover courtyard spaces for pop-up events
  • Add your own ideas below

What is the Warehouse area called?

What is the Warehouse area called?

In July 2021, a month-long poll was run on the topic of ‘What the area is called?’. For years everyone has called the area something different. The planning team asked HWD Comment to run the poll to see if there is a consensus.

Specifically focusing on the warehouse units owned by Provewell, as opposed to other warehouse clusters like Fountayne Road for example.

In total 253 people took part, representing an estimated 32% of the warehouse district population.

What Next?

This poll is useful food for thought.

It suggests that Harringay Warehouse District has a fair amount of support in the area – achieving 28% of the first poll – and only 12% outright objection in the second poll.

However, this was a poll rather than a scientific study. The results have been shared in the most recent newsletter and a comment box added below. If you have additional feedback you’d like to give, please do respond over the next few weeks.

The Results

First, we asked ‘What do you call the area?’ (using a drop down list). The option of adding something different was included with answers like (‘No name, just our street names’, ‘Artists warehouses’, ‘That bit by the new river’ and a few we couldn’t publish!).

Poll results on what the Haringey warehouse area is called

Second, we asked ‘how do you feel about the area being named Harringay Warehouse District?’ on Google Maps and Wikipedia:

Harringay Warehouse District poll pie chart

Updates

A Potted History of Harringay Warehouse District

Feedback period has now ended.

Bike Storage on Overbury Road

Bike Storage on Overbury Road

Safe bike storage options are limited at HWD. This proposal is based specifically on Overbury Road.

Proposed Idea

Space to create a vertical bike storage bank can be created via the reduction of bins, the change of traffic flow and the widening of the pavement. The proposed location for the vertical bike storage is to the left hand side of the entrance to Catwalk Place.

  1. Vertical bike storage to be added where the current collection of bins is next to Catwalk Place
  2. Pavement to be widened to accommodate the bike storage

The timeline for this project is c.12-18 months due to consultation with Highways, tenants and local businesses.

Supporting Imagery

OVERBURY BIKE STORAGE – PROPOSED

Updates

Responses to Parklet comments shared

Parklet Prototype installed for comment

Planting ideas shared for greenery of Overbury Road

Feedback period has now ended.

Traffic on Overbury Road

Traffic on Overbury Road

Overbury Road is unique amongst HWD as it runs alongside a public road. Tenants along Overbury Road have issues with heavy traffic and cars traveling at speed around the corner near Milk café.

Proposed Idea

To reduce the level of traffic and speed of traffic on Overbury Road, the proposed idea is to apply for a change of use and make it into a one-way road. Taking over a number of the current car parking bays for parklets and bin storage.

  1. Change Overbury Road into a one-way street
  2. Add a buffer zone at the north end of the street using a raised table to slow traffic
  3. Broadening the pavement to allow a more formalised version of existing seating alongside
  4. Add parklets and bin storage to some of the current parking bays
  5. Broaden the pavement to the side of Catwalk Place entrance to accommodate bike storage
  6. Trees & greenery down the street through planting within parklets

    The timeline for this project is c.12-18 months due to consultation with Highways, tenants and local businesses. A parklet prototype has been created and is temporarily housed outside ExFed for comment.

Supporting Imagery

OVERBURY ROAD TRAFFIC – PROPOSED

Updates

Responses to comments shared

Parklet Prototype installed for comment

Planting ideas shared for greenery of Overbury Road

Feedback period has now ended.

Trees & Greenery on Overbury Road

Trees & Greenery on Overbury Road

Several warehouse tenants across HWD have created space to grow plants and vegetables outside of their units. Some of the spaces, particularly along Overbury Road, have started to infringe the public pathway by encroaching on the pavement. This proposed idea is a way to occupy the streets with agreement and permission from Haringey Council via a formal planning application.

  • Overbury Road could accommodate new Eurobins alongside parklets
  • Planting is adhoc – some better maintained than others
  • Currently no formal permission with Haringey council to use public pavement for planting

Proposed Idea

Creating a series of parklets along Overbury Road to accommodate trees, plants, seating and Eurobin banks. Additional space created lets tenants utilise more of the outdoor space on Overbury Road

Tree planting and greenery will help change the local biodiversity of the area. The following criteria for planting has been proposed:

  1. Robust specifies that can tolerate pollution
  2. Plants that attract wildlife will be prioritised
  3. Colourful and fragrant planting, mixes of evergreens and perennials that will not be high maintenance
  4. Species that can provide some shade in summer months
Examples:
viburnum
Viburnum opulus

A deciduous shrub. Leaves are palmate and prominently veined. Flat clusters of white flowers appear in spring and summer, followed by bright red berries in autumn. Great for wildlife.

Amelanchier_lamarckii
Amelanchier lamarckii_multistem

An upright, deciduous shrub or small tree with spreading branches bearing oblong to elliptic, dark green leaves, bronze when young and turning orange and red in autumn. Pendent racemes of white flowers in mid-spring are followed by purple-black fruit. Great for wildlife.

arbutus-unedo-3
Arbutus unedo

A slow-growing bush is evergreen with rough bark and dark green leathery leaves. Rosy-pink pitcher-shaped flowers appear in autumn in panicles as the red, strawberry-like fruits.

pittosporum_Tobira
Pittosporum tobira

A tender, compact, evergreen shrub with attractive green foliage and fragrant, creamy white flowers. Delicate fragrance.

salvia_officinalis
Salvia officinalis

A compact, bushy, evergreen subshrub with oblong, aromatic, grey-green leaves and terminal racemes of pale purple flowers in summer. Lovely fragrance and colour.

Planting-bulbs-for-flowers-all-year-round
Bulbs for all seasons

Bulbs offer great opportunities for colour and structure throughout the year. They can also be given to residents to plant, as their planting instructions are easy to follow.

Updates

Responses to comments shared

Parklet prototype created

Feedback period has now ended.

Bins on Overbury Road

Bins on Overbury Road

The requirements of waste collection have not kept up with the volume of tenants on Overbury Road. Bins are overflowing, collections not frequent enough and there’s no food waste collection facilities.

  • 110 bins on Overbury Road in total
  • Lots of the bins are located next to warehouse windows
  • Recycling is contaminated by general waste and is therefore being collected as general waste

Proposed Idea

  1. Use Eurobins to reduce the number of physical bins
  2. Clearly separate recycling bins from general waste to remove the issue of contamination
  3. Increase frequency of refuse collection
  4. Add food waste collection facilities
  5. Test interest in housing bins alongside parklets 

Supporting Imagery

EUROBIN EXAMPLE

OVERBURY ROAD – EXISTING

OVERBURY ROAD – PROPOSED

OVERBURY ROAD – EXISTING

OVERBURY ROAD – PROPOSED

Updates

Responses to comments shared

Veolia confirm they’ll restart recycling collections

One-off Extra Bin Collection

Proposed change to weekly bin collection – meeting with Haringey Council & Veolia

Feedback period has now ended.

Parklets on Overbury Road

Parklets on Overbury Road

Tenants on Overbury Road have limited access to outdoor space. Some of the units have developed small spaces on the pavement outside of their unit. This creates a tension with Haringey Council due to the obstruction of the public pavement and for tenants with access requirements. Tenants along Overbury Road also have issues with heavy traffic and cars traveling at speed around the corner near Milk café.

This proposed idea is a way to occupy the streets with agreement and permission from Haringey Council via a formal planning application.

Proposed Idea

Using a series of parklets and bin bays along the length of the street will free up the pavement.

  1. Parklets used to create storage solution for bins
  2. Provide seating for tenants to use and socialise
  3. Include more greenery down the street through planting in parklets
  4. Designs of parklets customisable by tenants
  5. Bespoke designs only – no off-the-shelf generic parklet design
  6. To accommodate the parklets will require agreement from Haringey Council highways department to change the street into a one-way route


    The timeline for this project is c.6-12 months due to consultation with Highways, tenants and local businesses. A parklet prototype has been created and is temporarily housed outside ExFed for comment.

Supporting Imagery

OVERBURY ROAD PARKLETS – PROPOSED LAYOUT

computer generated image of a parklet

PARKLET DESIGNS FOR THE TRIAL

computer generated image of a parklet
computer generated image of a parklet

PROTOTYPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Updates

Responses to comments shared

Parklet Prototype installed for comment

Feedback period has now ended.

Non-Tenant Parking + Eade Road Bollard

Non-Tenant Parking at Cara House, ExFed and Unit D

Parking availability around HWD is often limited due to people outside of HWD using the private tenant car parks. This is a long running issue. There are three private parking areas – Eade Road entrance, Cara House and Arena.

Proposed Idea

In May 2021, a bollard system was installed at the Eade Road entrance to the carpark. The aim of the new system is to restrict access for anyone who is not a tenant of HWD.

  • To access a fob you need to contact Ben at Provewell Ltd
  • Bollard will still allow in emergency vehicles
  • Share observations and comments on how well the system is working

Other car parks will be reviewed in due course.

Updates

Bollard System installed at Eade Road entrance to car park

Feedback period has now ended.

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