Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
‘DAMAGE control’ ~ a video by a rebel resident
MARTIN BALL is a resident of the Rebel Borough.
In the video linked below, Martin makes an informal survey of Finsbury Park …
It was shot 10 days after the council's biggest Event-customer finished using the Premises that Haringey Council Licenses.
He identifies a number of sites of damage after a single use by the giant Live Nation corporation during the Council's Events Season.
Enabled, promoted and controlled by the Local Authority.
Damage Control, a rebel video.
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Tags for Forum Posts: Council Event Control, Festival Republic, Finsbury Park, Live Nation, Major Event, Martin Ball, Wireless
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Hmm, that locates the name of the particular park, But not the location of the crack in the road.
Ideally two additional photos could include, without too much ambiguity, distinct physical features such as an external fence AND a section of roadway, so the crack is easily located "in the cross-hairs", so to speak.
In the years when I was a councillor, and walked round reporting stuff, I often found Google maps very helpful.
I also used, initially, a free and then paid account on Flickr website. I'd sometimes use several photos on the same page, to show e.g. the size of a pile of dumped rubbish, from different angles to show the size of the clearance task.
Alan
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P.S. As you probably know, Haringey Council website has a map of Woodside Road. I'm wondering whether it would be plainer and even quicker to refer to the map to report this crack in the particular path. E.g. would giving the nearest house and street number offer a reliable and hard to miss direction?
https://haringey.gov.uk/leisure-parks-culture/parks-greenspaces/par...
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Aspects of Haringey council—such as financial waste, mistakes and irregularities are relatively easy to hide from public view and evade scrutiny.
Because such things can reflect on the character & honesty, careers & competence of Councillors and council employees—and on their corporate reputation—the council often does its level best (or worst) to conceal failure.
Haringey's busy Press Team are an important part of this ongoing public relations effort, which paints a picture of continuous success and of ever-greater heights being achieved.
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In disregard of its Constitution, Haringey Council is wedded to secrecy and keeping many matters private from Residents who either pay their wages or who depend on council services.
As I have found, it takes much time and effort to try to lift a lid on those things the council would prefer no spotlight is shone upon.
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However the damage in, and repairs undone, in our public parks—including the regularly part-privatised Finsbury Park—are impossible to conceal and are on-show year-round, for everyone to see.
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Permalink Reply by Annie McDonald on
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I would like to point out that the Ladder is indeed affected. I live very near Finsbury Park we can hear it coming through the windows and our skylight. Needless to say we have to shut them but it’s often hot 🥵.
lt also depends on the wind direction, friends in Crouch Hill can often hear it! Also no mention of virtually being trapped. Manor House is a no go area and buses going down Seven Sisters Road are often stopped. The shops close because of the sheer number of people. It’s horrendous!
l could go on but fear my headache will get worse and l haven’t even mentioned Krankbrother!
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UNLESS there is some form of legal challenge, the council's anti-Resident Events may be with us for years to come.
In a gesture of defiance of Residents' interests in three Boroughs before the elections, the outgoing Cabinet Member for Parks & Culture committed the incoming council plus the one after that in 2030 to Events staged by the (USA) convicted-monopolist, Live Nation.
Wireless noise affects worst of all the residents of Brownswood Ward, Hackney.
As they live in another Borough, they have no democratic representation.
But the Haringey Cabinet Member pre-election Signing shows contempt for democracy in Haringey and contempt for two councils that were then yet to be elected.
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To be fair, Clive, a part of the problem appears to be linked to the Local Government Deforms which gave greater powers to so-called Council Leaders. Such Leaders appoint so-called cabinet members. To refuse to obey the wishes of a Leader might result in a cabinet councillor getting sacked. If someone depends on the Cash Allowance it gives Council Leaders a great deal of power.
I don't know if any academics have done useful research on this set-up; on it's pluses-and-minuses. My experience, and frankly admitted bias, leads me to guess that swollen egos can be serious and perhaps unavoidable.
(A good guide might be Michael Rosen's book: The King and the Tutor.)
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IMO, the Hiring and Firing ability of the Council Leader confers on them too much power. Power to "eradicate" and which can be abused.
Previous leader Joseph Ejiofor once sacked two Cabinet Members in one go.
His stated intention was to "eradicate a number of persistent and personal conflicts". He might not have undertaken similar action, for example, vis a vis a brother-in-law.
A lot can turn on dependence on the Cabinet Member Special Responsibility Allowance.
Few in politics, never mind elsewhere, can afford to risk losing an extra £25,000 a year. However, I understand at least one former Cabinet Member once did defy their Leader and declined to go through with a Cabinet Member Signing.
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