ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a snapshot of planning related community activism in Haringey. It examines how community groups contested development control proposals, campaigns by single issue groups and engagement with the public inquiry into Haringey's draft Unitary Development Plan (UDP). The West's community planning elite describe activists from the deprived East in such terms consisted of three overlapping clusters of community groups. The community planning elite characteristically possessed the technical skills and organisational abilities to monitor and contest planning applications and land use policies contained in the draft UDP. Tottenham group functioned as a local historical society and such activities centred on the Bruce Castle museum. The Bruce Grove issue illustrated how the advice of planning officers to Council committees emerged within a broader context of institutional priorities and values. However, the Bruce Grove issue demonstrated recognition by planning officers of spatial inequality both in terms of community power relations and planning outputs influenced by institutional responsiveness to these.
