Crouch End Local Information
Practical local information for Crouch End: bin collection days, parking, council tax bands and planning, each one linked back to the official source.
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Crouch End Roadworks This Week: Nelson Road Shut, Buses Back
Nelson Road N8 is shut in four phases until late January. The Tottenham Lane burst is fixed, and the 41, 91, W3 and W5 are back on Crouch End Broadway.
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Crouch End bin collection days: the bank holiday rule
No Haringey collections on a bank holiday Monday, so the whole week slides to Tuesday-Saturday. Bin colours, the 6am rule, garden waste at £90 a year.
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Parking in Crouch End: the CPZ runs 2 hours a day
Crouch End A is controlled 10am to noon, Crouch End B 2pm to 4pm, at £4.10 an hour. Crouch Hall Road car park now charges around the clock, seven days.
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Crouch End council tax bands 2026/27: band D is £2,313.78
Haringey band D is £2,313.78 this year, up £105.84. The full A to H table, what the 4.99% rise pays for, and the £29 error in the council's band F row.
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Crouch End house prices: £1.5m a house, £542,500 a flat
A terraced house in Crouch End sold for a median £1,536,250 last year, a flat for £542,500. Every Haringey postcode sector, from Land Registry records.
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Crouch End train times to London: 20 min to Moorgate
Crouch End has no station of its own. The nearest is Hornsey, 13 minutes' walk, and its trains run to Moorgate in 20 minutes. Times, fares and the cheaper way in.
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Things to do in Crouch End: 7 free, plus a £24.50 roof walk
Seven genuinely free days out around Crouch End, plus the new rooftop climb at Alexandra Palace, ice rink prices and the two cinemas on Tottenham Lane.
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Crouch End planning: 229 homes allocated, most after 2037
Haringey's draft Local Plan gives Crouch End at least 250 new homes against 4,500 in Wood Green. The six named sites here, what each is meant to hold, and when.
Bins
Haringey Christmas bin collections: 2026 dates not out yet
Haringey has not published its Christmas 2026 bin dates. Last year only Christmas and New Year rounds moved, a day or two later. Tree collection and tip hours.
Schools
Haringey term dates 2026/27: Christmas break from 21 Dec
Haringey schools break for Christmas on 18 December and return 4 January. Fortismere and Hornsey School take a two-week October half term from 19 October.
Travel
Crouch End Christmas trains and buses: nothing on 25 Dec
No trains, Tube or TfL buses on Christmas Day. Boxing Day's bank holiday moves to Monday 28 December. What ran from Hornsey last year and when 2026 plans land.