Policy information sourced from the Haringey Local Plan: Strategic Policies

SP15: Culture and Leisure

The Council will safeguard and foster the borough’s cultural heritage and promote cultural industries and activities through:

  1. Protecting the established Cultural Quarter at Wood Green and the development of further cultural quarters, where appropriate, through Area Action Plans.
  2. Supporting the provision of new work spaces and social and cultural venues in all areas of the borough that support all formal and informal cultural and leisure activities;
  3. Protecting and enhancing, where feasible, existing cultural facilities and access to cultural heritage throughout the borough.

The Council will safeguard and foster the borough’s existing recreational and sporting facilities through:

  • The protection and enhancement of sporting and leisure facilities in areas of deficiency; and
  • The dual use of the borough’s cultural assets, such as land and buildings to meet the needs of local communities, for example meeting space, arts and leisure activities, opportunities for recreation and sport.

For more information please see the Haringey Local Plan: Strategic Policies