File:Emily Bowes Court - Tottenham Hale - October 2009.jpg

English: 24 October 2009. The (then) new student housing block looming over Tottenham Hale Station.

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Note for Students:

You can click to the update 14 August 2012. I also have a set of photos around Emily Bowes Court..

Alternatively, please scroll down and explore the links for more photos of Emily Bowes Court and the so-called Hale Village. (Back-button returns to this page.) There's lots of good stuff. As well as reading the comments you're welcome to add your own.

§ N.B. All my photos are dated. Some show how things looked in the recent past. Much has improved. Though in my personal view, "Hale Village" remains a blot on the landscape.

Please note that some websites show artists' impressions of how a building may look in the future.

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§ Photos of the internal 'court' (interior patio) of Emily Bowes Court, posted in February 2010 by Laura who worked for Lee Valley Estates Ltd owners of the site. Photos on Laura's pages were labelled: "Hale Village, North London". The word 'Tottenham' didn't appear. (Checked 9 September 2010 and 17 August 2012.) § Emily Bowes Court is part of the "Hale Village" development. It's run by Unite - whose blue sign reads: "The heart of student housing". § Unite's website mentions the "excellent transport links" with Liverpool Street and Highbury & Islington stations. This is accurate. And there are also good links to Stratford and northwards to Stansted Airport and Cambridge. Though I hope students will not just "escape" to Upper Street and Shoreditch, but explore Tottenham: the River Lee; and other parts of Haringey. § Richard and Gill's photo of the building in June 2009 at an earlier stage of construction. § Poetry corner praises the wondrous Tottenham Hale Urban Centre Masterplan. § Interesting facts Pure speculation about IsarSteve's Tottenham grandparents. § Local newspaper Haringey Independent reported (12 November 2009) on the official opening. See: 'Beehive' of arts students move in. § In February 2010 the Hale Village page on Lee Valley Estate's website commented: "About a third of the new homes will be provided by Newlon, and they are expected to be popular with key workers and young professionals." [ My Comment : I'm unclear how that helps to meet the housing needs of desperate Haringey families. ] § Flickr visitors who liked this photo and the comments, may also enjoy a short video of the architect Irena Bauman who casts a critical eye on Unite's student housing in The Sky Plaza, Leeds. § Why is student accommodation: "the one remaining goldmine"? § Article by Owen Hatherley who thinks this: "closed, segregated, high-security, high-rent accommodation . . . is the epitome of our privatised cities." § Michael Polledri, Chair of Lee Valley Estates got an MBE in 2010 for "services to enterprise and regeneration in north London". (Thanks to JG for this news item.) § Aerial view of where I took this photo.

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