Wards Corner campaigners start legal challenge of council decision (From Haringey Independent)

This is so wrong, please don't do it, we need the Council to do the Grainger plan, its what we need and want; listen to the residents, not yourselves. I and many others support Council and ask WCC to stop and consider others

This is good because it gives the Council a chance to review its position. The Council has been pushing through its own vision of what it calls "regeneration", confirming that it actually has no faith in the people of Tottenham to influence how they want their area to progress.
A small group of Councillors and technocrats, still caught up in 1990's planning ideology insist despite overwhelming opposition, that we need national chains stores on our High Street at Seevn Sisters, when what we need is for the Council to do its job of making our public space attractive. Haringey needs to invest in systems and human resources that will enable it to provide leadership and an inclusive vision so that organic renewal can be generated by a postive attitude towards local independent commerce and entrepreneurship. It needs to build on the strength of what makes the PLACE at Seven Sisters so SPECIAL, not try and compete with every other high street in London. This slavish sell out to "national retail" is a big error and will result in the same old problems in the future.
Come on Haringey. Show that you do listen to what people tell you. Convince Grainger plc, your development partner, to cooperate with the local community and make Seven Sisters a place we will be even prouder to call ours. Lets do this TOGETHER preserve OUR local independent shops, help us make them better and stop this bland airport type building from arriving on OUR Historic Corridor.

jjbearst, you ask the Council to listen to residents, why dont YOU listen to residents and let the Grainger plan happen, thats what residents want. Stop making these things up and LISTEN

If the Grainger plan is what the residents want to happen why has every council planning meeting and hearing been packed full with people opposing the plan? And it's not just market traders and shopkeepers either, it's overwhelming opposition from the majority of the people of Seven Sisters.