by Alicia Pivaro | Feb 16, 2021 | Open Spaces, Plan, Social & Community, Sustainability
Transition Highgate and HNF have been granted Bounce Forward funding from the Transition Network to take forward a project delivering local climate action. The three core elements of the project are; a local pop-up info and exchange space, Community Top 10 local...
by Maggy Meade-King | Dec 1, 2020 | Development & Heritage, Event, News, Open Spaces, Plan, Social & Community, Sustainability
It’s going to be a strange Christmas this year but Highgate organisations are pulling out all the stops to keep the show on the road. The Highgate Society have organised the Highgate and Muswell Hill Brass Band to play to accompany some late night Christmas...
by Louise Lewis | Sep 28, 2020 | News, Open Spaces, Plan, Sustainability
A strange encampment has been spotted in Highgate, not travellers, not hippies, but SHIFT, Stop Home Insurers Felling Trees. They are trying to protect four oak trees on the edge of Queen’s Wood. The Insurance Company, AXA, insists that cracking is a house and...
by Alicia Pivaro | Mar 4, 2020 | Development & Heritage, Social & Community, Sustainability
20 – 28thJune The Highgate Festival returns for its 3rdyear from 20 – 28thJune, kicking off with the wonderful Fair in the Square. Events get going the next day with a focus on bringing the history of Highgate to life with walks, projects – including the return...
by Alicia Pivaro | Nov 13, 2019 | Sustainability
Highgate Conservation Area Advisory Committee (HCAAC) was set up under the terms of the legislation creating Conservation Areas, the 1967 Civic Amenities Act. Local authorities were given powers to establish them to operate in individual Conservation Areas. Under the...
by Helen Rapley | Oct 30, 2018 | Sustainability
“Highgate’s quite nice apart from the rubbish isn’t it?” Comment from an overseas tourist “I walked through Basildon the other day and Oh My God, I couldn’t believe it, it was cleaner than Highgate!” Comment from a resident “I’m visually...
