Improvement plans threaten sheltered housing

Haringey council is considering either refurbishing the schemes in Tottenham to bring them up to care standards or turning some of them into general needs housing or extra care homes if the cost of upgrading them is too great.

The changes are part of plans to upgrade the borough’s sheltered housing stock and provide extra care housing in areas like Tottenham which have a shortage of it.

The council has held a series of meetings with tenants of the Campbell Court, Larkspur Close, Protheroe House and Stokley Court developments.

Paul Burnham of Haringey Defend Council Housing, which held a meeting about the proposals, said tenants were angry that the consultation events had been uninformative.

Tyrone Clark, a resident of one of the schemes, said: ‘It is a beautiful community and we do not want to move. The [council’s] plan to bring residential care and other sorts of care into one place is brilliant but we don’t want to move.’

John Bevan, cabinet member for housing at Haringey council, said: ‘The residents know as much as we know; we have consulted with them every month. For those four scheme it is bad news because they do not want to move but overall it is good news as schemes are refurbished and we are doing lots of work on all our sheltered housing apart from those ones the surveyors thought would be a problem [to bring up to care standards].’

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