🏗️ High-Volume Strategy

Thursday 21st December 2023

The Tottenham Hale Success

Ashley Road Depot / Tottenham Hale, N17

The Tottenham Engine: Ashley Road and the Mega-Development Model
Unlike the small infill sites of Crouch End, Tottenham Hale (N17) is a designated Opportunity Area in the London Plan, built for mass residential delivery. By late 2023, Haringey confirmed that major developments, including the Ashley Road Depot scheme, were underway, contributing hundreds of homes to its ambitious council house-building target.

The Scale: Projects in Tottenham Hale, like the completed Hale Wharf (October 2024) and the planned Ashley Road schemes, are focused on high-rise, high-density apartment blocks. This model is the only way Haringey can deliver the volume needed (over 3,000 new council homes by 2031).

The Skills Drain: The sheer scale of labour required for sites in Tottenham Hale creates a vacuum. As seen in Barnet, it pushes up the wage costs for subcontractors and pulls skilled labour away from smaller residential renovation projects across areas like South Tottenham (N15).

Robbins Construction Ltd Opinion: Tottenham Hale is the growth engine, but it highlights a key industry failure: we are still reliant on traditional, slow construction methods. Haringey is experimenting with modular/volumetric construction at sites like Woodridings Court. We believe this pre-fabricated approach is the necessary future for high-volume, cost-controlled delivery in regeneration zones, reducing site time and mitigating the impact of the chronic labour shortage.