Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
"Emergency" road resurfacing works on Seymour Road, Haringey Council messes up yet again.
I came home thie evening to find a note on my car saying it needs to be moved by 8 am tomorrow morning due to roadworks. There was also a note though our letterbox this evening about “emergency resurfacing works” on Seymour Road. My neighbour told me the notices went up at around 1 pm today. Surely that’s not enough notice for these things?
The letter was also a tad strange. Header was “Emergency road resurfacing Seymour Road”. Further down it tells us that these emergency works are planned to start on March 30th. What’s wrong with this sentence? Planned emergecy works? I thougt that emercencies by their very nature were impossible to plan? This smacks of council incompenetce to me. Someone forgot to send out the noitces, and they disguise it as an “emergency”, giving residents not only a massive headache in terms of parking, but also potential parking tickets. Illegal ones, that will cost time and money to get overturned. What would have happened to my car if i had decided to go away for a few days from tonight? I dread to think.
The works are “planned” from March 30th to April 2nd. This means they’ll start tomorrow, faff around with tea breaks at 9, 11, 1 and 3 and sod off at 3:15. Not to return until Monday morning, leaving us massively incovenienced and struggelig to park. We pay loads of money for our parking permits, and I think we deserve a little more notice. And not not have the road blocked over the week-end because the contractors can’t possibly be expected to finish over the week-end, bless them.
I fail to see what the big emergency is. Seymour Road is no worse or better than any of the other Ladder roads. So what’s the emergency?
I hope one of our local councillors see this and can shed some light. I am sure there will be a few complaints tomorrow when the parking jobsworths have been out earning their commissionsI hope one of our local councillors see this and can shed some light. I am sure there will be a few complaints tomorrow when the parking jobsworths have been out earning their commissions
Tags for Forum Posts: f'up, jobsworth, parking, roadworks, unacceptable
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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You can also report the whole sorry mess here if you want - the more the merrier!
http://reportit.tfl.gov.uk/pub/servlet/ep.app?a=a&type=177748&a...
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Permalink Reply by Paul on
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just spoke to a very helpful "Rina" in Highways. Re-surfacing will start around 10 metres in from the Green Lanes entrance of Seymour, and it will finish at number 63. They will start today and finish on Monday - not working the weekend, and have no plans to do the top half of Seymour Road.
Hope this helps.
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Permalink Reply by Pressdesk at Haringey Council on
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Haringey Council wishes to apologise to residents for the short notice they received about resurfacing work on Seymour Road. The job started today and will be finished by Tuesday morning. There will be no work on Saturday or Sunday and the road will not be blocked over the weekend.
The council has a resurfacing contractor working nearby at Wightman Road and as Seymour Road has heavy patching it is beneficial to undertake this job at the same time. We have rearranged today’s scheduled refuse and recycling collection for next week and will advise residents as soon as a new collection date has been finalised.
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@ Haringey Council: Recycling has not yet been collected, what is being done about that??
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Permalink Reply by David Schmitz on
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I've made some enquiries about this, and also about some works which were done at short notice on Raleigh Road.
What I have been told by Council officers is that at the end of the financial year it turned out that more money was available to the highways department to do resurfacing works than had previously been thought to be the case, and that therefore it had become possible to carry out works which otherwise would have had to wait for future years. At the same time, it just so happened that contractors were already doing works in Wightman Road.
In order to make use of the funding while it was still available, and in order to take advantage of the fact that the contractors could do the job more cheaply because their machinery and personnel were already in place, the department decided to act quickly. This led, however, to residents being given far less warning of the works than the customary 2 weeks' notice - 24 hours' in the case of Seymour Road and a weekend in the case of Raleigh.
Speaking for myself, I think that it is hardly ideal that control of the Council's budget should be lax enough to permit surprises at the end of the financial year, even pleasant ones. Also, restrictions on departments carrying forward surpluses into future years can be a problem for the public sector generally - causing money to be spent hastily and therefore sometimes unwisely at the end of a financial year, lest it be "lost".
In this case, however, I think that despite the incovenience which must certainly have resulted from short and inadequate notice, the highways officers should nonetheless be commended for showing initiative in seeing an opportunity and in taking advantage of it so as to achieve something that was unquestionably for our benefit. I myself drew their attention to the need to bring forward the works on Raleigh Road, and it is right that I should thank them for their prompt action.
I understand that no cars were removed and placed in adjacent roads, and I also understand that no cars were ticketed. If I am wrong about this, and if anyone has received a ticket as a consequence of parking being suspended during these works, please contact me on 07854 002742 or at david.schmitz@haringey.gov.uk and I will make appropriate representations on your behalf.
David Schmitz
Lib Dem Councillor for Harringay Ward
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@ David Schmitz, thank you for looking into this. I agree with you, it's hardly ideal to rush this thorugh and get a budget last minute. They also did not resurface the top of Seymour Road, which is the worst part! Genius.
Our recycling is not colletced yet either. And now it's Easter. Shambolic, the whole thing.
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