12:30am Sat 15/02/14 - high winds cause chaos for Harringay's Passage;
Luckily all is calm on Falkland Rd;
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Tigha, the Council are responsible for maintaining property on land owned by the Council - including paving and walls. It also has powers to serve notices on owners when buildings are unsafe. And to do certain works and charge owners - but only after serving legal notices.
Your elderly neighbour without funds may wish to seek independent advice - e.g. from Age UK Haringey or the CAB.
One criticism of the Land Registry system is that the maps on title documents are sometimes unhelpful in showing ownership of boundary walls. (Unlike the often beautiful handwritten - in copperplate - deeds of the past.) However, the Council has a permanent record of what it holds as the legal owner, with maps which may be more helpful about walls.
Although my guess is that it's unlikely the Council owns the garden walls of private homes. I say this without any knowledge of the Passage. But simply because many decades ago I was a lawyer and would have made sure, when selling title to a house, that my client would have included ownership of, and responsibility for mending fences and walls.
Incidentally, looking at legal titles and responsibility for repairs might be another useful role for Friends of the Harringay Passage. And another reason why I'd advise my colleague Cllr Gina Adamou to reread Ed Miliband's Hugo Young lecture and rethink her opposition to this group.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor until May 2014. Then an uncouncillor)
I have a 6foot fence and tressling on the top, which has basically been destroyed by people hopping over it- i assume by the evidence left in the garden- so not much of a deterorant- you may call my barbed wire- razor fence-= i think actually its brilliant and worth the money- and if a kid decides to try to climb over my wall, more fool them
I will stand up in court and happily state my case as a single middle age woman living on their own protecting my property- i think it is very easy for all of you to complain when you dont live on the passage way, in an area where police are constantly leafleting us about safety,security
telling us neighbours have been burgled
giving us free locks to get fitted
In fact in the morning when its daylight I will post you a picture of how creatively my lovely builder FLORIN has done it- a recommendation from here
very artistic I thought
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