Current Issues

Building on Lower Highgate Hill/Navigator Square
The Hill House owners also own the space in front of the library. They could build on it to create shops directly on to Highgate Hill, especially given the proposal to move the library to Vorley Road.

Because the land slopes, to look right development here would need to be in individual shops stepping down the hill, as they did originally. 

Tube Station
Archway’s current tube station offers little space, low ceilings, and cramped entrances. Improvements would include raising the height of the Junction Road entrance to allow more light in, and putting a glass enclosure over the steps up to Lower Highgate Hill to protect against the increased wind blight and reduce the litter which gathers there.
 

Excessive Redevelopment
Schemes for major demolition and rebuilding in the area include the proposal to demolish a significant element of the Conservation Area old university campus at the bottom of Highgate Hill and Archway Road, (originally built as a state-of-the-art hospital) in order to create a new tower to ‘match’ the old office blocks.

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There is significant danger that Archway could be designated a place for multiple towers, creating overshadowing and significantly increasing wind blight which in winter can already make the centre unpleasant, verying on dangerous. 

Organic and Incremental
The Forum continues to lobby for smaller steps which combine to create a bigger impact,

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