New social homes for Seven Sisters estate

Haringey Council is planning to build 45 new homes for social rent on a Seven Sisters estate.

The homes would be built in four blocks ranging from three to four storeys high near existing council housing in Brunel Walk and Turner Avenue Estate.

If approved, the scheme would provide 39 apartments and six maisonettes, along with play space and cycle storage. The development would be ‘car free’ except for the provision of two on-site, wheelchair-accessible parking spaces.

The plans feature eight one-bedroom flats and 16 two-bedroom flats, including four wheelchair-adapted homes. The remaining 15 flats and six maisonettes would have three bedrooms.

Parking spaces for the existing homes on the estate are set to be “rationalised”, but the plans state that all 29 bays will be reprovided following the changes.

The council says building the new homes would “make an important contribution towards meeting Haringey’s housing target and assist in meeting much-needed local housing need”, adding that the scheme would also “deliver significant improvements to the environmental quality of the site”.

The local authority aims to build 3,000 council homes by 2032 after launching an ambitious housebuilding programme in 2018, although civic centre chiefs recently admitted some schemes face delays caused by soaring construction costs.

Plans for Brunel Walk and Turner Avenue Estate state that the site was previously occupied by council-owned buildings that have recently been demolished because it would have been “very difficult to bring the existing buildings up to current decent homes standards and make the best use of the whole site”.

A public consultation on the proposed scheme is currently underway and will run until 11th November. Residents can view and comment on the plans by visiting the council’s planning portal and entering reference number HGY/2022/2723.