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A rundown nightclub will be turned into high-quality student accommodation as part of Tottenham's regeneration, councillors agreed last night. At a meeting of Haringey Council's planning committee, proposals to demolish the building in Chesnut Road, currently used by the Opera House nightclub, and replace it with 64 student apartments were approved. The building's beautiful 19th Century Italianate façade will be restored in...

A benefits fraudster who illegally claimed more than £100,000 has been jailed after an investigation by Haringey Council. Dolonescu Dumitru, 33, spent more than five years fraudulently claiming housing benefit and income support from his home in Harringay Road despite previously being deported in 2006 by border officials. The Romanian came back to the UK and claimed benefits until June last year using an out-of-date certificate...

Haringey's Joint Learning Disability Partnership Nursing team has won the National Nursing Standard Award for a new nursing model they have developed around caring for adults with learning disabilities. They were announced winners at a ceremony hosted by TV presenter, broadcaster and journalist Fiona Philips on Tuesday 12 March at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London with key figures from the nursing and healthcare profession in...

Two men were arrested earlier this month when council officers and police caught them dumping commercial waste at a council recycling centre. Businesses are not allowed to use the free recycling centres to dispose of business waste as they should pay for a commercial waste disposal contract. Council officers have long suspected that some businesses, particularly those offering waste clearance services, use the recycling centres to...

Two rat infested Tottenham restaurants were closed down immediately by council environmental health officers recently after they found rodent mess, structural defects, filth and extremely poor hygiene practices in both premises. When officers visited Station Chicken Express of 61a White Hart Lane, Tottenham on 29 January they found evidence of rats and mice, no hot water, poor general hygiene standards, piles of rubbish and structural...

Hornsey Town Hall will once again be open for community events this summer. Residents, community groups and voluntary organisations are invited to apply to stage activities at the landmark building in the heart of Crouch End. Parts of the Grade II listed Town Hall will be available for hire from 18 May to 28 June as part of a community programme coordinated by the Hornsey Town Hall Creative Trust and Haringey Council. Applicants...

A new Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) around Alexandra Palace railway station has been proposed after local residents raised concerns about parking congestion in the area. Residents have been invited to take part in a consultation about introducing parking restrictions in roads west of the station and neighbouring roads. The proposals come after residents said that commuters and visitors to the area take up available kerb space by...

A blitz on illicit sales of tobacco and counterfeit goods has seen two Haringey shopkeepers prosecuted. In one case, on 1 February, a Haringey shopkeeper Klaudia Kurek of Bartek Polish Shop, High Road, Tottenham, was fined £1,000 plus £1,200 costs, for selling cigarettes with inadequate health warnings. On 23 January in another case Zeynel Binboga and Murat Yildiz, co-directors of Can Foods which owns Turnpike Lane...

Haringey Council has today written to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Maria Miller MP, asking her to support the community's efforts to retrieve a missing Banksy mural which is set to go under the hammer in the US in just over two days time. The 'Slave Labour' artwork appeared in Haringey on a wall at the corner of Whymark Avenue and Wood Green High Road in May 2012. But it was removed from Haringey last weekend...