Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Mother & baby nearly knocked down avoiding uncleared flytip (courtesy Veolia)

This morning I saw a mother wheeling her baby in a pushchair having to avoid a flytip so bad that it's blocking the whole pavement. On the street next to it is a skip. So a pedestrian's only choice to get past is to go into the street.

I rang Veolia yesterday morning to report the rubbish. They said that it had already been reported on Thursday and would be cleared yesterday morning. At about 4.30pm I happened to go past it again and saw it was still there. I called Veolia again. A very helpful member of staff took some time to speak with his manager then came back and assured me it would be cleared yesterday evening. Both times I made it clear that the pavement is blocked and pedestrians are having to skirt into the street to pass the tip. This morning the rubbish was still there.

Apparent concern has not translated into action.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on July 13, 2011 at 0:55

Cheers Fabrice. If it was cleared before we got it on HoL, that's good news. As you can imagine we can't check hourly and hope you'll remain as responsive when we highlight that problems like this occur.

You can see from Liz's photo, taken on Saturday mroning how it was left for most of Saturday. May I ask why the reasoning behind leaving it like that after a first visit?

If you could get residents with Jabbakam type set-ups by trouble spots I'd imagine that the return on a small investment would work well for both Veolia and local residents. How about a trial on a few spots?