Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
What a load of rubbish! 54,000 complaints about rubbish in Haringey in just 2 years
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Haringey’s Labour-run council had 54,365 complaints about fly-tipping, littering and missed waste collections in just 2 years.
Last year alone there were 29,397 complaints about dumped rubbish and missed rubbish collections. Most of the complaints last year were about fly-tipping and rubbish on the streets with 19,584 complaints. The number of complaints about fly-tipping increased dramatically by 7,000 compared to 2013 when there were 12,355 complaints about fly-tipping and missed collections.
There were fewer complaints about littering although these complaints also increased from 593 in 2013 to 829 in 2014.
The figures seem to reinforce local views that dumped rubbish is a big problem in Wood Green. As the most complaints about fly-tipping were seen in Woodside and Noel Park wards in Wood Green. The areas with the most complaints about missed rubbish collections so far this year are Bounds Green and Muswell Hill.
Liberal Democrat Opposition politicians have repeatedly raised concerns about rubbish collections and fly-tipping. When fortnightly rubbish collections were introduced they said this could cause problems with overflowing bins. The Liberal Democrats believe that charges for collecting some types of large rubbish and restrictions on where rubbish can be collected, have also led some people to dump rubbish instead.
Cllr Gail Engert, Haringey Lib Dem Leader of the Opposition, comments:
“There is clearly a big problem with fly-tipping and missed rubbish collections across the borough. The Labour-run council and their waste contractor must do more to tackle these problems.
“Whilst Labour is spending millions of public money renovating Wood Green High Road the streets of Wood Green are a mess due to all the rubbish left lying around.
“Labour should also reconsider the fortnightly rubbish collections, I am not convicted they are working, especially in Muswell Hill and Bounds Green. The Lib Dems proposed bringing back weekly collections in some areas, it is a shame that Labour voted this down at the budget meeting.”
-Link to downloadable photos of the littering and fly-tipping problem in Wood Green (photos from Woodside Ward): https://www.flickr.com/photos/haringeylibdems/sets/72157645680796968/
-Information about charges for collection of some items and restrictions on collecting bulky items (i.e. only from properties with front gardens): http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bulkyitems.htm#other
-Figures in response to a members' enquiry made by Cllr Gail Engert:
Thank you for your enquiry regarding complaints about waste collections our answers are in red:
1.How many complaints/reports were there in the borough during each of the last two years about dumped rubbish/fly-tipping each?
2014 – 19, 584
2013 – 12,355
2.How many complaints/reports were there in the borough during each of the last two years about missed rubbish/recycling collections?
2014: – 9,813
2013: – 11,191
3.How many complaints/reports were there in the borough during each of the last two years about littering?
2014: - 829
2013: - 593
4.Which wards have the highest number of complaints/reports about fly-tipping ?
2015: Woodside Ward, Noel Park Ward
2014: Noel Park Ward, Woodside Ward
2013: White Hart Lane Ward, Tottenham Hale Ward
5.Which wards have the highest number of complaints/reports about littering?
2015: Noel Park Ward, St.Ann’s Ward
2014: Noel Park Ward, Bounds Green Ward
2013: Seven Sister Ward, Tottenham Green Ward
6.Which wards have the highest number of complaints/reports about missed waste/recycling collections?
2015: Bounds Green Ward, Muswell Hill Ward
2014: Seven Sisters Ward, Woodside Ward
2013: Seven Sisters Ward, Highgate Ward
I hope that you are satisfied with my response to your enquiry.
Yours sincerely,
Neighbourhood Action Team (Haringey Council)
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Thanks for posting Karen.
Lets get the basics right first, before we embark on grandiose schemes.
Basically, rubbish is basic.
CDC
Councillor, Highgate Ward
Liberal Democrat Party
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Lothair Rd South and Conningsby Rd hasn't been cleaned for weeks. Luckily we are a tidy bunch.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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To be fair, many years ago Duckett's Common regularly abandoned cars dotted around it. It's the people we live with who litter, not just the council's contractors not cleaning up.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Interesting that Noel Park and Woodside wards have the highest reported incidences of fly tipping and and both border Wood Green High Road. Surely not businesses trying to avoid paying for commercial waste collection?
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Permalink Reply by Nigel on
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My experience of the Council and Veolia when reporting problems of dumping and graffiti is that they respond very quickly. The problem is the people who think it is acceptable to behave in this anti-social way.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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The one thing that would drive me out of sunny Tottenham is the litter, the dumping, the dirt. None of this can be blamed on the council, political point scoring is not fair here. It's not so much the litter per se, it's that I live among people who are so alienated from where they live that they dump their crap anywhere. Most of the litter is food waste, so eating on the move means lack of connection to home. Depressing.
The fly-tipping is because of anti-social landlords and high churn. Globalisation means cheap mattresses, when I was renting 40 years ago you used the mattress that was already there.
And who are the thousands who spit out their chewing gum any which where? Nauseating.
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I think you're right that there is a correlation between areas with high residency turnover and littering. It's really difficult for people to develop a sense of ownership of the area they live in when they have to move from one horrendous rent place to another every few months
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Permalink Reply by Julia on
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They'll be significantly higher come the end of this year I'm sure. The area is a filthy, disgusting mess at the moment.
Things have worsened significantly round Turnpike Lane in the last six months. Coincidentally the shoddy, half-cocked works to tart up the area immediately outside the tube have made it much, much worse (they are still not finished off properly so people have no respect because the area looks such a tip) - there are cigarette butts, litter and pigeons everywhere. Men routinely urinate in the street, irrespective of whether or not the public toilets are open. Bins overflow day and night and the menace of the purple bags is much more prevalent than it has been before. There's a big family of foxes that live on Mannock Road allotments and rip open bags several nights a week. Fly tipping is as bad as it ever was.
I love living here but honestly it feels like we've travelled back to the 1970s.
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Permalink Reply by Muriel Zaccuri on
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I've reported many time the problems around Turnpike Lane including missed rubbish collection and antisocial behaviour. All I got is a couple of call and a letter asking if I was happy how my complained was dealt with. Was it dealt at all??
On top of that the unfinished landscaping around the station is appalling: rough unfinished surfaces, tree without space for growing (they will break the surface soon), the bicycle stalls fitted in the wrong direction (20ish stalls will fit 4 bikes). It looks all like a bad joke
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Oxford bag trousers and platform shoes John. It wasn't all milk and honey.
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