Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Reminder - Meeting with the council MONDAY 2 Nov - 7pm - Restaurant air pollution

Please do dial in to hear the plans to make our neighbourhood happier and healthier.

Just a reminder - we LOVE the restaurants, we HATE the pollution.

Pollution isn't inevitable from charcoal grill cooking - ESP filters can remove 99% of the pollutants before they vent into the neighbourhood.

Yes this isn't free - but estimated £10-15k. How much was spent in the latest refurb?

Please register to hear the next steps - the meeting is on Teams. Speakers include the Director of Public Health for Haringey.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on Tuesday

ALICE!

What to do?

We residents cannot oblige employees of the council to act.

Only Cabinet Members can. If they so choose.

Council "officers" must be forced to act. It is apparent that council staff are not willing to act but are prepared to wring their hands … until the cows come home.

As I noted above, it is a pity that at the highest (Cabinet) political level, accountability and responsibility for Health is divided between at least two Members.

I suggest that further engagement with council employees is demonstrably futile. I recommend—apart from copying them in—that further communication is abandoned.

The campaign should IMO be directed in writing only to the Lead (Cabinet) Members who have formal, public responsibility for Health, who hold the levers of power and who can order action.

If necessary, through a Letter of Direction.

It's not rocket science.

It's just political-will, hardened to emerald sharpness.