Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Avoid Western Road Recycling Centre today?
We walked past twice this morning, an hour apart - traffic was queuing back to Coburg Road.
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Permalink Reply by Zena Brabazon on
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I have heard several complaints about Western Road and am contacting the Director of Environment today about this. I am sending him the link tot his thread as well.
I will let you know what response I get.
Zena Brabazon
Cllr, Harringay Ward
Labour Candidate, Harringay Ward, Local Elections, May 3, 2018
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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
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Peter & Zena
I saw Cllr Peter Mitchell, Cabinet Member for the Environment, at the event below where he said the take up of households of the brown bin scheme was on target. I am very sceptical (unless the target was -10%) - there is only one brown bin on my entire street of over 50 houses (probably c65 households) and the adjacent street was the same... It is also relevant that the traffic queues all weekend are on the cycle route of Quietway 10 in Haringey. And that many at the back of the queues abandoned the journey and presumably returned home.
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Also some of the traffic is likely coming from Hackney who don't have a recycling centre...
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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That's a bit cheeky isn't it. Does that not mean Haringey residents are in effect subsidising Hackney's was management?
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I know of only 2 on Pemberton (one being my own, it being shared with another household). I was speaking to a fellow Pem resident yesterday and she said she had a white sack outside waiting for the trip to the tip, and the guys coming down the road on weds as part of the green waste collection took the waste...
I imagine if the take up does not hit a certain amount the council is going to be out of pocket funding the service which will likely make a mockery of the thought of any saving! I cannot see how it is viable with only 2 brown bins on a street if this is replicated across the borough. I have to say, I would be happy to have seen the green waste collection reduced from weekly to say fortnightly if cost was an issue. I can live with a green waste bag in my front for a week!
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Thanks Zena. It would be good to find out more about how quickly the green waste bins are filling up and being replaced at the tip. It might be coincidence but it sounds as though the same thing happened last weekend as happened right back at the start of the new scheme (ie their being overwhelmed by the amount of green waste).
It also makes me question having just one recycling centre for the whole borough. Unless the overall masterplan is to make taking your green waste to the recycling centre such a hassle that you just cave in and buy a bin ... Assuming that this isn't the intention (!), I'd echo Pamish's point about having other places in the borough to take green waste.
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Permalink Reply by Geoff Amabilino on
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We went on Saturday morning (a queue, but not as bad as the photo) and the green waste bin was overflowing with garden waste going in the household waste bin. The council workers seemed a bit at their wit's end.
Big thumbs up for Michael's comment.
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I went up to Ally Pally on Sat morning (pre 9am) and the queue was 10 cars plus long waiting to get in northbound, that and the cars on the opposite side of the road also waiting, but having to park in the middle of the road as the northbound queue would not let them in. I had to go past all of them, including the southbound queue, on the right hand side. I thought I was going to have to go up the right hand footpath at one point.
The logic of the road and the money invested in it was (from memory) to relieve the traffic on Mayes road. If this nonsense keeps up you will see it becoming grid locked and folks like me reverting back to Mayes Road to avoid the congestion.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Does that centre close at 4pm like the late lamented Tottenham Hale Centre did? I'd guess most of these drivers would prefer to drop off on a weekday if there was opening on even one night a week.
Closing the eastern site to appease the Harris Academy and give them a car park is high on the list of bonkers decisions by the Kobinet. Gonna be hard to reverse that too, there are no sites big enough to replace it. So we will need some more creative thinking. Placing skips for large items, having green waste collection stashes in parks and odd corners, it has to be cheaper than calling out Veoila to pick up flytipped dumps at £50 a time.
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