Outside a house on Wightman Road

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Permalink Reply by Liz on April 14, 2009 at 19:55

Shouldn't be on the pavement. Have you tried street enforcement?

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Permalink Reply by WightmanPaul on April 14, 2009 at 20:39

Do you have a number - been going round in circles on the great Haringey website. Discovered that street enforcement don't bother patrolling around here. Have submitted a 'rubbish' report and a 'fix my street' report.

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Permalink Reply by Liz on April 14, 2009 at 23:15

I don't have a direct number because its all centralised on one number at customer services 020 8489 1000 but their page is here

They don't patrol round here but you could try emailing them the photos and a complaint. Don't hold your breath for a reply. Try cc to Nilgun Canver as cab member for enforcement?

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Permalink Reply by Liz on April 15, 2009 at 9:05

If you want it cleared then Enterprise will do it pretty promptly, but it you want your neighbours sanctioned for this behaviour, you need enforcement and they do not work in tandem with Enterprise, unfortunately, although I have requested that they inform the enforcement teams on occasion when the fly tip is particularly bad (not sure if they do as enforcement no longer answer my emails).

As a result, the rubbish will be cleared BUT the message for your neighbours is that it is okay to do this again as there was no penalty. (Indeed, they may get this the message even that this is the correct way to do it as the rubbish disappeared, didn't it?)

You could also put the pics and complaint on Fix My Street which also sends in complaints on your behalf.

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Permalink Reply by WightmanPaul on April 16, 2009 at 15:39

Thanks guys, the rubbish was cleared very effeciently the next morning and there was a call from Haringey in response to the report I'd made. They seem to have picked it up from the FixMyStreet report I posted before their own system caught up. I'm now primed with enforcement numbers for the next occasion. Incidentally, I know who the perpetrators were because I met a lady with a push chair trying to get through just after the idiots had come out of the house and driven away. She had challenged them about blocking the pavement. They neither offered to help with the push chair nor saw anything wrong with their behaviour.

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Permalink Reply by Anette on April 17, 2009 at 21:02

ohhh, this makes me so angry!!!! I know I keep harping on a bout fines, but I really believe that's the only language these ignorant twits will understand.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on April 28, 2009 at 18:45

Liz, I read this quickly before but failed to spot your comment that "enforcement no longer answer [your] emails".

This is plain daft. You're a member of the public - and a community volunteer giving her own time. You must get the basic courtesy of an acknowledgement and reply. Even if they are not always able to respond as you'd like.

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Permalink Reply by Liz on April 28, 2009 at 19:00

Oddly enough, after I wrote that I got a snail mail letter and a copy of a photo to show success, from street enforcement, over a fly posting issue.

I think the difficulty for me is the lack of consistency about how I am to be kept updated about problems. If , for example, it is the policy to send a letter following up complaints this would be handy to know. Yet sometimes I get a phone call, sometimes an email, and sometimes my complaint disappears and receives no acknowledgement.

Enforcement have agreed to attend the next Community Volunteer meeting, which will be useful but it struck me at the last meeting that if at least one person who has the power to get things done (and not a council officer whose job is really education) is not in regular attendance (Brian Haley for example?) than the CVs are simply an exercise in public relations and not an effective means of changing things.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on April 24, 2009 at 18:24

Paul, re my near neighbour inWR:

I mentioned my suspicions the other night that this chap has been running a second-hand vehicle-sale business from home, judging by the number of vehicles I've seen 'FOR SALE' on the pavement opposite my neighbour's over the past year. Always a single vehicle only, ranging from minibus to people-carrier to saloon. Today's featured bargain is a plush dark-blue Mercedes, Reg. NUI 1396. A case for Enforcement or local police? Or do we just make a list over a few months? Presumably you can be a serial car-seller with impunity if you can show you're just advertising your current vehicle. Any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on April 24, 2009 at 21:30

Sounds like trading on the highway. So it's another job for Street Enforcement.

I'd guess this sort of situation is tougher to tackle than a trader who blatantly parks half-a-dozen cars for sale with the same mobile number in the window. But CPZ permits should help establish a pattern. And isn't action being taken anyway, against the pavement parking?

So don't detour with FixMyStreet. Email directly or phone Street Enforcement.

By the way, your councillors have a contact email address and can send in a "Member Inquiry". But it's vital the system works for everyone rather than have another loop in the system.
So please report back on HoL with a review of the service you get.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on April 25, 2009 at 11:47

Many thanks Alan. We'll follow up on that.

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