Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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They're a residents association, I bet they can get funding from the council. I wonder if they'll use it to lobby to have rising bollards put in and get gates around themselves?
Oh no, I see, they're trying to get the traffic down Hornsey Park Rd (an extension of Wightman Rd) to go around the back of them through the "Heartlands". Plus ca change...
Parkside Malvern. That sounds like a fabulous name for a Secondary School.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Interesting name. Malvern is a road within the area but Parkside appears made up, maybe from Park Ridings. They seem like an active bunch anyways.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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You mean they'll use a residents' association to look after the residents' interests? The cheek of them!
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Why should we have to have a bloody RA with all the work it entails to look after our interests when we have elections every 4 years and people scramble to be voted in "to look after our interests"?
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John you are incredibly naive sometimes!
Because they the local politicians need constant reminding that they were put there "to look after our interests" and of course as you do know, there are competing interests for limited funds.
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It's not naivete. I'd like to just be happy, not have to "govern" all the time.
there are competing interests for limited funds.
Matt are you saying that if I get my act together I can take a pot of money that was probably intended for Northumberland Park and get it spent around here? I don't think that's a particularly fair or moral thing to do. I think the council should allocate funds fairly and not be swayed to action by residents associations.
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I understand what you are saying but we have to deal with what we have which is an imperfect system. Infrastructure decays a varying rates (eg. roads, parks, footpaths, lighting etc) across the borough and problems pop up pretty randomly (eg. anti social behaviour) so the council reacts to these competing demands as and when, with limited resources. Hence RAs also pop up to put out their case for what they see as their need.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Pack on
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In addition, isn't there rather more to most residents' associations that only dealing with the council anyway?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Nobody has to have an RA. The council can't do everything and sometimes residents feel it doesn't always do enough. Do you trust your elected politicians – and council officers – always to do the right thing in your interests? I can tell you that but for local action on the ground a few years ago, Stroud Green Public Library would have been closed by those folk looking after our interests.
And before you tell me that closure would have been in my interests, I can tell you they were also going to close and sell off Highgate library and all the branch libraries would have next. The council has quietly abandoned their policy of having just one or two super-libraries. The council doesn't always get it right when left to itself.
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Permalink Reply by C Hulse on
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As a member of the Parkside Malvern Residents Association, thanks for the warm welcome :)
We are indeed making efforts to re-direct some of the traffic from the highly congested, narrow and residential Hornsey Park Road via the new road extension of Clarendon Road.
As the council seems very much uninterested to properly publicise this new through road, most drivers are not even aware that a quicker and more convenient alternative to reach Wood Green exists!
Hence our activities, which I hope will find at least some support within the local community...
Best wishes and hope there will be a good partnership with the local interest groups in the future.
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You are indeed most welcome. The debate on residents' associations is a good one, but not the best one to have on a post designed to alert folks to your existence and to welcome you.
I too very much hope we'll develop a good partnership. Hands across Turnpike Lane an' all that.
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