Hello
I moved to Roseberry Gardens a few months ago and can't quite believe how much its used for rubbish dumping / fly tipping, and how bad the littering is of take away packages and booze bottles. I'm just getting going with some questions and requests for Veolia and Haringey Council but imagine this is a well trodden path (I want to ask for street litter bins and daily street sweeping to start with). Does anyone know if this has been looked at before or if there is already a campaign or group up and running?
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I live near the Green Lanes end of Chesterfield Gardens and the level of fly-tipping and littering is appalling. By bank holiday Monday it was looking particularly disgusting.
John Forde (john.forde@haringey.gov.uk) from the council has been helpful, & if you report dumped rubbish to him it always gets cleared. However there doesn't seem to be a solution to people dumping rubbish in the first place. A camera was installed along with a notice about fines for fly-tipping but for some reason it isn't actually pointed at the area where everyone dumps their rubbish, so presumably has never caught anyone in the act, it definitely doesn't seem to have deterred anyone. One of the main problems seems to be the Mews blocks and flats above shops who don't have space for bins. Once they put rubbish on the streets it just becomes a magnet for litter and gets added to and piles up.
We also have problems with the huge industrial waste bins used by the businesses that back on to Chesterfield Mews - they get pulled out onto the pavement of Chesterfield Gardens to be emptied, and tend to be left haphazardly blocking the pavement, generally with the lids open so they stink. Again its a litter magnet and people start dumping piles of rubbish around them. I would say that most days the pavement is impassable for pushchairs and wheelchairs because of the rubbish. Plus it smells and it looks horrible. I've talked to John about it but apparently there's nothing the council can do about it.
Personally I'd favour something like the municipal bins they have in Brighton - although I guess that would mean we'd lose parking spaces. At least they would be placed somewhere where they weren't blocking the pavement, and would be less ugly than hundreds of plastic bags of rubbish piled up.
You should join the GRA. They get things done in the gardens. They even get the local councillors attending their meetings.
I know you have good intentions but I'm afraid signing up to the GRA will not solve these problems. They have been going on for years and years. Putting more bins around will only attract more flytipping. We have many people who will happily live at home with mattresses and beds pield up in their front garden for months on end. How do you solve that.
And if I'm pushed on the GRA's ability to solve problems I'm afraid their choice of traffic calming on teh gardens has not worked at all. We are still plagued with speeding cars.
I live opposite the gardens near Chesnuts school and we have a couple of favourite spots here two. I snap a photo as i walk past and load it via this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbits.LoveHaringey
And things seem to get sorted within 48hrs. They even removed all the household bins which were colonising the pavement!
And yes I do feel I am barely having an impact but it's a quick and easy way to feel like I am trying :)
Only that issue has migrated into the flats on the corner of St Anns and Warwick Gardens.
I sympathise with you as I walk through Rutland Gardens each day and it does seem to be the season for the old sofas and mattresses to migrate in even greater numbers onto the street. The skips being used by the Homes for Haringey renovations have also become a magnet for junk. Another hot spot are the flats at the corner of St Anns and Warwick Gardens. Despite a new store being built it has stopped the problems there. I don't see any impact from the GRA on those matters.
I have been using the council app to report what I see. However I don't see how this tackles the root causes of this plague.
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