Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Big issue suggests Noël park is going to be up for 'discussion'.
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Permalink Reply by Lesley G on
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I'm sure I heard something a while back about Noel Park being awarded a grant for improvement works of some kind, but not sure what's planned.
I don't believe they can do too much development as it's a conservation area.
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Permalink Reply by Roberto Robles on
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There's no more room in Noel Park, but the homes in the estate need desperate works. All we know so far is that the Council is surveying homes in Noel Park for improvements. http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/11116101.More_than_1_200_.... But the estate continues to be excluded from the Decent Homes programme, and has been so for 30 years.
Furthermore, conservation rules continue to be poorly enforced, see forevidence http://noelparknet.ning.com/forum/topics/is-this-a-joke?id=6570429%...
Roberto Robles
LibDem local election candidate for Noel Park
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Please, Roberto, tell us all one of my favourite tales of courage and endurance and victory against overwhelming odds.
I want to hear the heart warming story of how the brave determined LibDem members of the Coalition Government held out till the bitter end against Tory plans to scrap the Decent Homes money.
Tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it(Tottenham Hale Ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Roberto, that is a bit rich as it was the current government who took the money away that council's were going to use to bring their housing stock up to decent homes standards. Oh, and the Building Schools for the Future money too.
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Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on
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Hi Roberto
The Noel Park Estate was in the Decent Homes programme until the Coalition slashed the decent homes budget. The house i grew up in my mums house (tenancy dates back to 1989 so long time) is one of the homes with prefabricated "pods" at the back so I really do know what I am talking about here. I recall there were plans for proper extensions and tenants were due to be moved out temporarily while it happened. I hear however that she set you all straight on the issue when lib dem canvassers knocked on the neighbours door on Sunday while she was round having coffee.
Emine Ibrahim
Labour Party Candidate (Harringay Ward)
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So, Roberto, here's a suggestion for you.
Noel Park needs at least one new councillor who's honest, decent, thoughtful and prepared to listen. And, crucially, to think for themselves and check facts. Are you this person? Are you courageous enough to tell residents:
"Sorry everyone. I got this wrong. I'm my own man and for me, facts, evidence and speaking truth is more important than spouting the Party handouts.
Which is what I did on the Decent Homes issue. If you elect me, I promise it won't happen again."
Otherwise Roberto, there will be nothing at all to separate you from the appalling Labour councillor Alan Strickland - the only candidate you're likely to beat. He is smiley and very plausible and carries on repeating the same pathetic excuses for his tried-and-failed "regeneration" policies. While canoodling with property developers.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Oh my Alan, you'll lose the whip saying things like that about a fellow Labour Councillor. Oh... wait...
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Permalink Reply by Mark Pack on
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Or, you never know, perhaps Noel Park would benefit from a councillor who gets stuck into cutting out the sort of waste that sees money spent on sending the wrong sort of tradespeople to make repairs (e.g. http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/news/housing_group_sends_bricklay...) rather than whose first instincts are to blame someone other than Haringey for poor services
(Of course, Alan you're an honourable exception from those instincts too).
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I love the reported exchange between the tenant and the bricklayer who was sent to re-glaze her window. "He said he didn’t know what he could do, and I said we don’t brick our windows up these days, we use glass." Now THERE'S a woman who should be standing in the local elections.
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Mark, it's not either/or. You know perfectly well that criticising Council waste and criticising Government cuts are both legitimate and justified.
It's also the case that local democratic decision-making requires honesty and openness about both. Do you really believe that tens of millions of Government cuts can be "back-filled" in Haringey simply by efficiency savings?
Then, if new councillors really want to "get stuck into cutting out waste" this will need a transformation of the system of red-gang / yellow gang Party games-playing we now have in Haringey. Sure, we currently have a failed and discredited Labour Leadership. But they are hardly facing an effective, united and well-functioning opposition.
Neither view will be news to you. Nor will it surprise you when I recommend that electors insist on meeting the candidates themselves as they go round door knocking. Talk to the people behind the political Party mask. (Assuming there's anyone actually there.)
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Hi Mark
It would be approriate for you to declare your position in Lib Dems under your name and perhaps then readers would realise your role in the production of the literature.
Emine Ibrahim
Labour Party Candidate (Harringay Ward)
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