Haringey Council wants to demolish 1 Mallard Place in Coburg Road, which currently houses Area 51 Education, a special education school.
The site, along with the adjoining ‘Block D’, a vacant parcel of land, will be replaced with a 22-storey building and a 14-storey building containing 150 affordable homes.
The school is expected to move to a new site in the borough.
During a consultation in the summer, residents supported the need for additional council housing but raised concerns regarding the impact on Area 51 Education, climate change impacts, traffic and parking and design.
The proposal will deliver 52 one-bedroom homes, 66 two-bedroom homes, 28 three-bedroom homes and four, four-bedroom homes.
The development will be car free except for 12 accessible bays and planning documents state no new vehicle access point will be introduced.
A total of 275 cycle parking bays have been proposed.
The site and wider area are mentioned in the borough’s local plan, forming the Wood Green Cultural Quarter.
As such, an area just north of the site is also subject to redevelopment. Entitled Chocolate Factory Phase 1, this parcel of land contains the original Barratt’s Sweets Factory building, which will be replaced by 230 homes in blocks up to 18 storeys in height.
Just south of Coburg Road, work is also underway to deliver the Clarendon Gas Work development, allocated for mixed-use, this site will deliver up to 163,300sq m of residential floorspace, 7,500sq m of business space along with retail, a day nursery, shops and a leisure space.
The council states the scale of the buildings responds “sensitively to the context of the adjacent streets”.
More information on the scheme can be found via Haringey Council’s planning portal, using reference number HGY/2025/3217.
