Booker Wholesale in Queen Street is set to be demolished and replaced with a larger industrial building, reports Grace Howarth, Local Democracy Reporter

A large wholesale market in Tottenham could be demolished and replaced with new industrial units.

Booker Wholesale, which sells mainly food products, is set to go as the building has been deemed “dated and approaching the end of its serviceable life” as well as “in need of significant repair and maintenance”.

In a planning application, Verity Trustees Limited says the new building will “make more efficient use of the site” by creating three units with a total floor area of 7,258 square metres.

This is a gain of around 2,000sqm of floor space, facilitated by “significantly reducing” car parking and introducing cycle parking and “improved landscaping”.

Currently the site has 130 parking spaces and the proposal puts forward 27.

The planning application claims, subject to the final mix of uses of the units, that between 105 to 185 job opportunities in Haringey will be created by the redevelopment of the site, located at 39 Queen Street in Tottenham.

The new building would also be taller, with Booker Tottenham being 10.5 metres high compared with up to 13.5m for the proposed replacement.

More information on the scheme can be found via Haringey Council’s planning portal using reference number HGY/2024/1203.

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