Crough End Playing Fields, Application for Town or Village Green Registration

COMMONS ACT 2006

SECTION 15(1)

Crouch End Playing Fields (Upper Field)

Notice of an application for the registration of land as a Town or Village Green

To every reputed owner, lessee, tenant or occupier of any part of the land described below, and to all others whom it may concern.

Application has been made to the London Borough of Haringey of Alexandra House, Station Road, Wood Green N22 7TY by Sophie Melzack and Richard Strachan, under section 15(1) of the Commons Act 2006 and in accordance with the Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2008. The application seeks the inclusion in the register of town and village greens of the land described in the Schedule below which is claimed to have qualified for registration as a town or village green on 17th July 2024 by virtue of the land being used by a significant number of local people for lawful sports and pastimes as of right for at least 20 years without force, without secrecy and without permission.

The application, which includes a plan of the land proposed for registration, may be inspected at Alexandra House, Station Road, N22 7TY between the hours of 10am – 5pm.

If the registration authority is satisfied that the land described below qualifies for registration as a town or village green, it will so register the land.

Any person wishing to object to the registration of the land as a town or village green should send a statement of the facts on which the objection is based to planning.policy@haringey.gov.uk or Planning Policy, 5th Floor, Alexandra House, Station Road, N22 7TY on or before 14 March 2025. Any representations that are to be taken into account by the Authority in reaching a decision on the application cannot be treated as confidential and will be copied to the applicant for comment and may be disclosed to other interested parties.

Dated 30/01/2025

Signed B. Tudball

on behalf of the Registration Authority

Head of Spatial Planning, Haringey Council

SCHEDULE

Description of land claimed to have qualified for registration as a town or village green

The land usually known as Crouch End Playing Field, otherwise known as ‘the Upper Field’ bounded by Highgate Woods School, Shepherd’s Cot, Shepherd’s Hill Allotments and Crouch End Open Space as shown on the plan submitted with the application entitled ‘Exhibit 5 – Ordnance Survey of Application Land’.