Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Council Launch "Operation Clean Streets"
This from the Council:
Robust new measures to crack down on flytipping and keep our streets clean are unveiled today, as Haringey Council launches Operation Clean Streets.
Pavements and bins on high streets across the borough will be blasted clean with specialist jet-washer equipment, as part of a new rolling programme, and new bins are also being installed at dozens of locations across the borough.
The council is also committed to phasing out unsightly purple sacks at the roadside, as it introduces a new way of gathering up the waste collected by its team of street sweepers.
Tough action will be taken to tackle the borough’s flytipping hotspots and against people who dump their rubbish on Haringey’s streets.
Cllr Stuart McNamara, cabinet member for environment, said:
“Many of our residents tell us that the cleanliness of their neighbourhoods is important to them.
“We absolutely agree and these new measures, which are new solutions to an old problem, will help us to ensure that you feel proud of where you live.
“We are determined to try everything possible and keep coming up with new ways to tackle this scourge, which costs millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to clear up, and is a menace which upsets many of our residents.
“It is unacceptable that the selfish actions of a few can spoil Haringey’s streets with litter and fly-tipping, and we will not shy away from taking action against those who treat our neighbourhoods as dumping grounds, as we recently did with betting shop Paddy Power.
“Residents can help us by ensuring they leave their rubbish out properly for collection and reporting any dumping that they do come across. Together, we can help make Haringey’s streets cleaner.”
A number of measures will be introduced over the next year as part of the crackdown. The first schemes to be unveiled include:
· New timed collections on roads with shops, starting with Tottenham High Road, to ensure that rubbish sacks are only left out at certain times of the day and promptly collected.
· Waste gathered by road sweepers, which is normally left for collection in purple bags, will no longer be left at the road side, as part of a trial scheme being introduced in Wood Green and Tottenham, then across the borough over the coming months
· Trialling new communal bins in streets which have flats above shops but are not on a main road, such as Avenue Mews in Muswell Hill, where rubbish has previously been left on the street for long periods.
· Specially designed dual litter and recycling bins to make it easier for people to recycle on the go
· Extra efforts to identify fly-tippers and take action against those who litter the borough.
For more information on these schemes, and further updates about Operation Clean Streets, visit our website at: www.haringey.gov.uk/clean-streets.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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I was told about this (they had to wait until after the ward by-election to announce it). Stuart McNamara is someone I met recently wearing my #wheeliebinliz hat, we had some frank discussions but he really does 'get it'. He's also responding to residents concerns with a lot less 'denial' that there are big issues in the borough. I hope this initiative works. Veolia need a kick up the backside but so do a lot of our residents.
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Permalink Reply by HST on
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All the points here make excellent reading. I really hope they succeed in achieving f the above points, which to be honest should have been addressed a long time ago. To their credit - on the occasions that I have reported rubbish/broken pavements etc, they have always responded quickly. Will be keeping an eye on how operation clean streets develops!
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Permalink Reply by Philip on
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This has to be very good news indeed. One of my bugbears is the amount of gum spat on the streets which is already despoiling the new pavements. I have contacted my local councillors(West Green)( with the suggestion to raise public awareness of the issue as happened with dog mess etc) who have passed it on, but if anyone has a suggestion for more effective communication with whoever makes these decisions....
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Any change-step programme must start with acknowledging the problems honestly and fearlessly.
From my previous involvement in the Scrutiny Panel, I knew Cllr Stuart McNamara had been preparing these initiatives. And as Liz Ixer, says, he really does "get it". And that's partly why I've suggested that people contact him and pass on their ideas and suggestions. And also see if they can work with Stuart as these changes take place.
Osbawn, you make a fair point about needing good services as standard - rather than as an "initiative". For that reason, in the past when there's been a local "week of action", I've sometimes thought: "Oh, and 51 weeks of inaction?"
But actually, there's a logic to trying out different "initiatives". Approaches which may differ in different areas. Not every part of Haringey has identical waste problems.
As we know, failure doesn't happen in the wonderful fantasyland of Koberville. If something can't be spun as a success, it's quietly forgotten. So credit to Stuart McNamara for admitting that the present system is seriously failing in some aspects.
It may be harder to maintain this degree of candour when some at least of the new experiments also fail. As they must if they are real experiments. So I won't be in a rush to give the thumbs up or down on particular schemes. An essential part of any change programme is to observe, record and learn. Which includes learning from failure and partial success.
By the way, while welcoming Stuart's initiatives, I won't be soft-pedalling my criticisms about some obvious gaps in our waste systems. Nor will I be ignoring large piles of rubbish which I happen to come across.
"Regeneration" of the borough must include getting the basics right. Cleaner streets is one of those. A truth universally acknowledged by even the most stratospherically paid interims and consultants.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I like experimentation. Prototyping new ways of doing things on a small scale is a great way of testing them and then adopting the best ones in places and circumstances where they work. Small scale prototyping should also allow for some things to fail. Finding out what doesn't work before committing large amounts of resources allows learning from failure without letting down the whole borough or wasting tons of our money. The public sector can be paralysed by the fear of failure so an initiative like this is to be welcomed.
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