More than half of Tottenham’s young people are not aware of regeneration work to improve the area.

An online survey carried out by Positive Youth News Haringey, an organisation that works to portray young people positively in the media, found that 53 per cent of young people were not aware of Haringey Council’s regeneration plans for Tottenham.

Of this 53 per cent, 31 per cent said they did not know what regeneration was.

The survey was part of PYN's WeGeneration project, which aims to raise awareness of various regeneration projects among Tottenham's young people.

Positive Youth News project manager Seema Chandwani said the figures showed more work needed to be done to make sure young people’s voices were heard.

She said: “This is not a new problem, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report in 1998 aptly titled ‘a lot to learn’ which centred on the involvement of young people in urban regeneration.

“Haringey Council has been very co-operative with the WeGeneration project and is keen to improve the involvement of young people. This survey shows how much work is still to be done.

“We hope we and other youth organisations can help to facilitate and ensure young people’s voices from Tottenham are heard and they understand the changes which are taking place in their neighbourhoods”.

Angella Fosuaah, a spokesman for PYN Haringey, said: “It is important that we the young people of Haringey have our voices and opinions about the proposed changes in the Tottenham Regeneration Programme heard."

A spokesman for Haringey Council said: “We’re committed to listening to the views of Tottenham’s young people and we work closely with local schools and youth organisations – including involving them in consultations during the last few years.

“The focus of our 20-year plan to bring long-term regeneration to Tottenham is that by the age of 20, a child born today will have a quality of life and access to the same level of opportunity at least equal to the best in London.”