What is proposed in planning application HGY-2010-0500

Refurbishment and conversion of the Town Hall Building.

Alterations, extension and change of use from B1 (Business) and Sui Generis to a mixed use scheme incorporating:

• D1 (Non-residential Institutions)
• A3 & A4 uses (Restaurants, Cafés and drinking establishment)
• D2 (Assembly and Leisure)
• and retaining existing B1 and Sui Generis (Theatre and performance venue) use.
• Alterations, extensions and change of use of Link Block and East Wing from B1 (office) to C3 Dwelling houses.
• Extension, alteration, refurbishment and change of use of the Broadway Annexe East Part from B1 office to A1 retail and B1 Office.. (west part to be C3 residential)
• Residential development comprising 123 No. units in total (35 x 1 bed flats, 61 x 2 bed flats, 20 x 3 bed flats, 3 x 4 bed flats and 4 x 4 bed houses)
• and associated car parking including at basement level, including residential accommodation in the existing Town Hall (East Wing and Link Building), the Broadway Annexe (West Part) and Mews.
• Erection of sub-stations.
• Alterations and landscape improvements including to the Town Hall Square, and use of the square for both Public Events and Markets/Small Festival uses.
• Listed Building: Alterations, extension and refurbishment of Hornsey Town Hall and Square, Broadway Annexe and demolition of existing Clinic Building and Hornsey
  Library loading bay.

In other words

This planning application encapsulates the redevelopment of a large site in the Town centre of Crouch End. This includes; the Hornsey Town Hall and adjacent buildings (the Annexe), the Piazza, the Mews (at the back of Weston park), the library grounds and the land surrounding the library and Town Hall.

This planning application is not just about the regeneration of the Town Hall - converting it into an art and business centre. It is proposing to turn half of the existing Town Hall and the Annexe buildings into flats, attaching a new block of flats to the rear end of the Town Hall building (Block B) and adding another new block of flats (Block A) stretching the length of the entire site - starting in the gap on the right side of the library on Haringey park. It is 5 story block of flats, towering 3 stories above the height of exiting houses right next to it. And lastly another 4 houses in the Mews (at the back of Weston park).

All together the development of this site will add a significant amount of high density housing (123 flats) of which only 4 will be affordable housing to an area, which even by Haringey own standard, is classed as poorly served by public transport. (Click here to see Haringey transport accessibility UDP map Appendix E PTAL map from UDP from the transport assessment 252718)

This planning application presents a huge challenge all around and there is lot to consider. The impact of such a development is not only going to effect those who live and work directly next to it, but will have an impact on all the surrounding communities, who use Crouch End as a town centre now and for years to come.

Application's Documentation
There is no 2 ways about it, if you want to know what this planning application is all about and assess how this may effect you, your family and your community, you will need to look into it and see exactly what is planned.

This Planning Application includes a very large number of drawings, plans, environmental impact assessments, reports and other documents - some 200 files. Those are all available on Haringey Website and now are provided here, as well as in the archive library.

There are few reasons why we included it here too. Haringey has come a long way in providing a planning portal, which helps make the planning process more transparent and in the public domain, however there is still room for improvement, making all the available information easily accessible.

When visiting the planning application page on Haringey website, one is confronted with a list of 200 separate documents, listed in a coded way, coherent only to those who compiled it...  It is a list of file names, that do not correspond to the actual file names when downloaded and both sets of file names do not describe the documents’ content or titles.

For convenience, here is an index of all the available documents. The list includse the titles of each document and the number (like 252533) is the actual file name as is on Haringey site. So one can see in a glance what they wish to download and still retain a ref to the file names as it was originally assigned by Haringey Planning department.

Where to start? Which documents?
Although it appears like a mammoth task to sift through this huge amount of documents, there is one key document which include all the plans and drawings, that are also provided separately.

The ‘Hornsey Town Hall Renaissance - Design and Access Statement’ by John McAslan + Partners / Capita Symonds, is that one long key document. It is divided into 10 separate files listed here:

252533 part 1 | 8.5mb pdf
252534 part 2 | 5.9mb pdf
252535 part 3 | 7.3mb pdf
252536 part 4 | 11mb pdf
252537 part 5 | 30.8mb pdf
252538 part 6 | 17.8mb pdf
252539 part 7 | 19.3mb pdf
252540 part 8 | 14.2mb pdf
252541 part 9 | 12.4mb pdf
252542 part 10 | 16.mb pdf

If you like to know what is contained within each one of those files please scroll down to see a more detailed index.

Next you may want to look into some of the Reports and Assessments that are submitted with this application, Where you will find the key impact issues this development might have on your life, your family, the community and the environment as a whole.

Listed below are the documents mentioned above However if you would like to see a more detailed index including all drawings as separate documents please visit the library

Planning Application

Hornsey Town Hall Renaissance - Design and Access Statement by John McAslan + Partners / Capita Symonds

252533 part 1 | 8.5mb pdf

1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
3.0 THE PROJECT
3.1 Vision and Objectives
3.2 Brief and Approach
3.3 Business Plan Summary
3.4 Strategic Options
3.5 Project Description
4.0 CONTEXT APPRAISAL
4.1 Urban Appraisal
4.2 Site Appraisal
5.0 BUILDING APPRAISAL
5.1 Historic Building Appraisal Summary

5.2 Building Organisation
5.3 Distribution of Spaces
5.4 Potential Use Studies
6.0 TOWN HALL BUILDING PROPOSALS6.1 Uses
6.2 Key Architectural Moves
6.3 The Assembly Hall

6.4 Scope of Works
6.5 Phasing
7.0 BROADWAY ANNEXE & MEWS PROPOSALS
7.1 Historic Building Appraisal
7.2 Building Organisation
7.3 Proposals
11.0 ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY
11.1 Town Hall building
11.2 Site-Wide
12.0 VIEWS ASSESSMENT
13.0 CONSULTATION PROCESS
14.0 APPENDICES
14.1 Appendix A: Planning Drawings
14.2 Appendix B: Scope of Works
8.0 FACILITATING DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS
8.1 Design Development
8.2 Design Strategy
8.3 Massing
8.4 Materials Palette

8.5 Visuals
8.6 Schedules
8.7 Site Strategy
8.8 Demolitions
8.9 Site Management
8.10 Town Hall Servicing
8.11 Refuse Strategy
8.12 Library Servicing
8.13 Lighting Strategy

9.0 ACCESS STATEMENTDAVID by BONNETT ASSOCIATES

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Criteria For Inclusive Design Standards
3.0 Overview
4.0 Town Hall Public Facilities
5.0 Residential Unit Provisions

6.0 References
7.0 Access Overlays

10.0 LANDSCAPE PROPOSALS
10.1 Introduction - The Site
10.2 Open Space - Analysis
10.3 Open Space - Concept Development
10.4 The Village Green - Concept Development
10.5 The Landscape Masterplan
10.6 Proposed Site Sections
10.7 Landscape Grading + Levels Diagram
10.8 Village Green - Design Proposal

10.9 Material Palette
10.10 Planting - Tree Palette
10.11 Planting - Shrub + Hedging Plants
10.12 Planting - Perennial Planting
11.0 ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY
11.1 Town Hall building
11.2 Site-Wide
12.0 VIEWS ASSESSMENT
13.0 CONSULTATION PROCESS
14.0 APPENDICES
14.1 Appendix A: Planning Drawings

14.1 Appendix A: Planning Drawings cont.

14.1 Appendix A: Planning Drawings cont.

14.1 Appendix A: Planning Drawings cont.
14.2 Appendix B: Scope of Works

Reports and Assessments

Properties and Housing Policies
252689 Local demographics, residential and commercial market analysis by Knight Frank
252690 Affordable Housing Statement by Capita Symonds

Daylight And Sunlight
252691 Daylight And Sunlight Study By Delva Patman Associates
252692 Daylight And Sunlight Study Appendix A Location Drawings
252693 Daylight And Sunlight StudyAppendix A_2.
252694 Daylight And Sunlight Study Appendix A_3
252695 Daylight Analysis, Vsc Appendix B C
252696 Daylight Analysis, Nsl Appendix D1
252697 Daylight Analysis, Nsl Appendix D2
252698 Sunlight Analysis, Apsh Appendix E Block A/Weston Park

Air Quality
252699 Air Quality Assessment by Capita Symonds

Ecology, Trees, birds and Bats
252700 Arboricultural Implications Assessment (AIA)
252701 Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS)
252704 Ecological Appraisal Report by Capita Symonds
252708 Emergence / Re-entry Bat Survey by Capita Symonds Ltd
252707 Flood Risk Assessment by Capita Symonds Ltd
252711 Japanese Knotweed Treatment Strategy by Capita Symonds Ltd

Archaeology and Conservation
252702 Archaeological Desk Based Assessment By CGMS consulting
252710 Listed Building and Conservation Area Statement by Capita Symonds Ltd

Land Contamination, Construction, Energy efficiency

252703 Contaminated Land Report by Capita Symonds
252705 Construction Environmental Management Plan by Capita Symonds Ltd
252706 Sustainable and energy efficiency design report by Capita Symonds Ltd

Noise Assessment

252712 Hornsey Town Hall Noise Assessment by Capita Symonds Ltd

Transport Assessment

252714 Transport Assessment by Capita Symonds Ltd
252715 Appendix A Site Layout Plan
252716 Appendix C Technical Note – Traffic Flow Counts
252717 Appendix D Accident Analysis Data
252718 Appendix E PTAL map from UDP Public transport accessibility levels in Haringey
252719 Appendix F Development Schedules
252720 (just titles)Appendices Appendix A Technical Note – Traffic Flow Counts,
Appendix B Accident Analysis Data, Appendix C PTAL map from UDP, Appendix D Technical Note – Existing Trip Generation, Appendix E Technical Note – Proposed Trip Generation, Appendix F HGV Swept path analysis assessment
252721 Appendix G Technical Note – Existing Trip Generation
252722 Appendix H Technical Note – Proposed Trip Generation
252723 Appendix I Swept path analysis assessment
252724 Appendix J Draft Residential Travel Plan
252725 Appendix K Draft Workplace Travel Plan
252726 Appendix B Correspondence

252727 Transport Assessment of Redevelopment of HTH lby Capita Symonds Ltd

Consultation
252709 CONSULTATION STATEMENT by Capita Symonds Ltd
252713 Planning Explanatory Statement by Capita Symonds Ltd

Notices

252728 Notice Description of Development for notice
252729 Notice Newspaper notice
252730 Notice
252731 Site Plan