Spurs Smash The Bar On £Multi-Million Pitch

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Premier League football club, Tottenham Hotspur, has been granted planning permission to build 867 homes on land that it owns not far from its £1bn stadium when the pitch had been previously denied - the club has now smashed that bar.

Haringey councillors first rejected the scheme, which also includes commercial space, on the grounds that the three towers that form most of the project (there will be low level housing as well) have an ‘unacceptable adverse effect on views in the area’. Anybody that knows Tottenham, especially at the end of the High Street where the club is based, would realise that ruining views is next to impossible in one of London’s most deprived areas.

However, with the investment Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (THFC) has made in acquiring property and land in the area, it has the potential to go from run down to gentrified. The profits from land usage will assist the football club with its objectives – footballing improvement but also community projects which include providing scholarships that lead to applications from locals to attend Oxbridge universities.

The planning permission was also granted under the Mayor of London’s edict that 50 per cent of the properties are delivered as ‘affordable housing’.

Towers

The towers will be of 27, 29 and 32 storeys and sit alongside the railway line that serves White Hart Lane station – and north-west of the stadium (in the photo here, the towers can be seen at the top of the picture – whilst the towers to the bottom of the image are artist’s impressions of hotels and other accommodation that THFC would like to develop).

The Goods Yard

The site is currently known as the Goods Yard and the Depot – and it is proposed that once it is finished it will continue to be known just as the Goods Yard.

Haringey Council planning officers had recommended the plans for approval but were shot down by councillors. However, lead planning officer, Johnathan Manning lead the appeal and ultimately took the responsibility to overrule his council. He did so on the grounds that any historic buildings in the vicinity would be protected by THFC making the appropriate investment to do so and more to the point, Haringey is enormously behind in providing consents to build the homes the borough has committed to build.

The councillors had also criticised the design of both the towers and the low-level housing – but as can be seen pictured, the development features contemporary building materials, large windows and balconies with patio doors.

Manning concluded that he expected the finished project to provide an ‘exemplary standard of architectural quality’.

Picture: The Goods Yard proposal near Tottenham Hotspur’s world-class football and multi-use stadium has gained consent. It has been designed by F3 Architects which also designed the changing rooms and player lounges at the stadium.

www.f3architects.com

Article written by Cathryn Ellis
25th November 2022

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