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Previous News from 2007 from Tottenham and Wood Green, Friends of the Earth, on Hale Village London...

News on major developments: We have commented on major plans for Wards Corner and Lawrence Road, both in the Seven Sisters area, calling for carbon-neutral developments with lower amounts of parking. There is a community campaign on Wards Corner trying to save some of the historic buildings on site, which we are in contact with. This campaign had 350 local people to a public meeting on 28 February.

The Hale Village proposal for the GLS site at Tottenham Hale, with 1210 flats, 700 student rooms, 800 parking spaces, a hotel, school, shops and health centre got outline planning permission on 17 May.

The site has now been demolished. The developers are obliged to hold a design competition for the "flagship building" at the front of the site. One of the four firms of architects proposed cladding the building with Photovoltaic panels, making it effectively carbon neutral. That's what we'd like to see on all new developments.

The other application we opposed - for 16-storey flats on the Hale Wharf site - has been withdrawn in the face of our campaign. This is a big win for local people. We have since met the developers, Isis, and they have asked different architects to come up with plans for the site which have now been shown to local residents. It looks likely that we will get a better and more interesting design, with lower buildings and maybe up to 200 car parking spaces instead of 350.