Business
Nord N8 gym opens on Crouch End Hill in December
A gym with a sauna and a one-degree ice bath opens at 4 Crouch End Hill in December. Full membership is £175 a month, with 60 cheaper opening places.
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Christmas
Christmas Shopping in Crouch End: 20 Shops, From Mince Pies to Rare Vinyl
We checked 20 shops in and around Crouch End, from Dunns Bakery to Flashback Records, for opening hours and what they sell. Updated November 2026.
Christmas
No Pitch in Crouch End This Year: 8 Places to Get Your Christmas Tree
We checked 8 places selling real Christmas trees to Crouch End, from the Highgate pitch to Sunshine Garden Centre, for prices and dates. Updated November 2026.
Cost of living
Haringey family hubs: £4.7m extends free benefits advice
City Hall's £4.7m extends free benefits advice at Haringey family hubs, with weekly appointments in Muswell Hill and Wood Green. Checked November 2026.
Christmas
Ice Rinks Near Crouch End: Eight Places to Skate, Starting at Ally Pally
We checked 8 ice rinks near Crouch End, from Ally Pally at £11.75 to Somerset House, for 2026 dates, prices and rules. Updated November 2026.
Council
Haringey budget: Ally Pally grant cut, new Highgate pay bays
Haringey's draft budget would cut Ally Pally's grant, add pay bays on Hampstead Lane and outsource Park Road Pools, with a £35.4m gap still open. Comments close 4 January.
Licensing
Haringey licence rulings: Mayor can now have the final say
From 3 November Sadiq Khan can call in Haringey Council licensing decisions on large venues, live music, later hours and festivals, and rule on them himself.
Transport
TfL fare dodger crackdown: 24 arrests in first month
Plain-clothes BTP officers and TfL inspectors stopped 467 people and made 24 arrests in a month of Operation Vector. What it means at Haringey's stations.
Food & Drink
Christmas Dinner in Crouch End: 9 Tables to Book Before 1 December
9 pubs around Crouch End with Christmas Day lunch from £90 to £114.95, plus child prices, deposits and who is shut on the day. Checked November 2026.
Wood Green
Wood Green red route starts Monday: no stopping on the High Road
The Wood Green red route starts Monday 2 November: no stopping at any time on the A105 High Road or the first metres of 14 side roads, except in bays.
Housing
Haringey council housing gets the regulator's lowest grade, C4
Haringey's council housing has been graded C4, the regulator's lowest. Almost 4,000 fire safety actions were overdue and half of repairs were late.
Housing
Seven Sisters council homes win UK affordable housing award
Rowan Court, 46 Haringey council homes for social rent in Seven Sisters, has won RIBA's Neave Brown Award 2026 for the UK's best new affordable housing.
Climate
Haringey climate grants of up to £50,000 close 29 November
Haringey's £100,000 Community Carbon Fund closes at 11.59pm on 29 November. Groups can bid for up to £50,000, and residents up to £1,000 with no constitution.
Haringey is a council name rather than a place. It is a 1965 respelling of Harringay, which is itself just the streets around Green Lanes. What people actually say is Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Hornsey, Stroud Green, Wood Green, Bounds Green or Tottenham, and this site is written that way.
Crouch End News covers the whole borough, from the hill down to the Lea. The west and the east of it are very different places, and one council makes the decisions for both: what gets built, what a licence allows, where the controlled parking zones run, when the bins go out. Those decisions are published, and we go through them and report what they say with a link to the file.
Where to find things
- Local Info: bin collection days, parking and permits and council tax bands.
- News: the record, including planning applications from Highgate to Tottenham.
- What’s On: what is on in Crouch End, Muswell Hill and around Alexandra Palace.
Every fact links back to the document it came from.