- Aug 13, 2005
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Let's be entirely honest. If you left this up to Levy and Lewis, Love Lane would be knocked down quicker than you can say Emmanuel Adebayor to be replaced by a budget block in the back of beyond. No way do they want council housing in the way of the main access point to their shiny new development. And fundamentally they want the local area to be gentrified to push up the local property values. Haringey want to improve the area for local people, Tottenham want to improve the local people for the area.
Haringey want to leave it as a run down area, it suits their modus operandi. They don’t care about the people living their either. If they did they wouldn’t have abolished the multi million pound plans for a new community space because it was going to be built by a developer and not them.
The type of people living in the area have always changed, the demographic has massively changed there in the last 5 years compared to the previous 30. It wasn’t always a really poor area either, not when my (now deceased) grandparents were living there pre Second World War and my father afterwards. It’s since then the policies from different governments and councils have let it degenerate to this point. The club should be applauded for their actions, not condemned for them.