Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Veolia team - photo and contact/schedule details

Meet two members of the Veolia street cleaning team with their shiny new dust cart, part of a team of 12 serving the St Anns & Harringay area. They are based at Chestnuts Park. They aim to clean your street twice a week.

Their area manager is Dave Cook reached via 020 8885 7700

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on April 20, 2011 at 15:11

Thanks, Matt.

DAY 3. I phoned and asked the Haringey Waste Management staff who the corresponding person is for my own ward - Tottenham Hale. Unfortunately they hadn't yet been given this information.

However, the Veolia switchboard (8885 7700) did know. And said that each "village" (i.e. entirely arbitrary group of wards based on the existing Area Assembly areas) actually has two people - one in charge of refuse collection and one for street cleaning. For HoL members who live in Tottenham Green, Tottenham Hale or Seven Sisters the two people are Stephen (Steve) Fletcher and Gary Tyler. Their phone numbers aren't yet available.

Meanwhile the purple (mauve?) bags are piling up. As Liz rightly insists they will need to get their systems working quickly and smoothly to minimise the time these are left on the streets. Otherwise they'll be even more attractive magnets for further dumping.

P.S. As you have the inside track, Matt would you be able to get the complete list of names and phone numbers across Haringey?

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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Permalink Reply by matt on April 20, 2011 at 15:23

No inside track Alan, just spoke to the good people in the above photo.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on April 20, 2011 at 15:38

Oh, dear. And we pond life councillors now rely on HoL to let us know what's happening.

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Permalink Reply by David Jones on April 22, 2011 at 11:23

I watched these two sweeping the footpaths at the top of Warham Road recently. They were doing an excellent job.

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Permalink Reply by Omotn on April 22, 2011 at 15:48

"Twice a week" is just ever so silghtly at odds with what I was told by an officer of the council, who helped negotiate the contract. I wrote this paragraph:

it specifies the results Haringey want to achieve, i.e. lots of recycling, clean streets, empty bins, and so on, rather than the actions Veolia must carry out - so if a street is clean enough then Veolia can leave it unswept, if it is not clean enough then they must keep sweeping it until it is. Indeed, they don't have to sweep it, they can use magic, or any other cleansing mechanism, if they have it available

in a larger document and Haringey OK'd it. So twice a week might not be enough, or it might be far too much.

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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on April 22, 2011 at 18:03

Perhaps these two can pop down to my street and clear up their three 3 purple bags that have been there for two days now.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on April 22, 2011 at 19:06

There is one on Lausanne Rd too. Why don't they just throw them in one of those enormouse wheelie bins that everyone has in their front gardens?

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Permalink Reply by Liz on April 22, 2011 at 19:58

Alan and I have been musing on this over on Flickr. Two days ago Crouch End was a sea of purple bags which were left out overnight. This is not ideal as it encourages dumping (see link on Flickr). If bags are left overnight or longer, I suggest you log them as dumped rubbish on the report a problem form. I had one that lasted 2 and a half days which I reported twice, however the next one that appeared disappeared quickly - I wonder if sometimes bags are simply missed as the waste disposal chaps drive round to collect them.

As John says, I was tempted to throw it into my (nearly always) empty wheelie but I'd prefer them to change the system so that these bags don't dot the landscape - with their distinctive colour, they are even more easily spotable than the old green ones and bound to attract the cans and the pizza boxes just as the old bags did

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on April 22, 2011 at 19:52

Oh, into bin-men then?

Thought you might like this one:

Harter Kerl mit Putzfimmel....

Tough guy with obsession with cleaning....

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Permalink Reply by Louise Nazeraj on April 22, 2011 at 20:11

Oof! Yes, well, hello!

Anyway, back to purple bags. There's another proliferation of them in Crouch End this evening - they're filled with cherry blossoms and presumably waiting for pick up. But yes, act quickly Veolia otherwise the mattress mice will be out and before you know you'll have the decrepit contents of everyone's lofts and sheds waiting for pick up with your cherry blossoms.