Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Rubbish - West Green Road
Here's this mornings snaps from 200m of west green road. The sweeper hadn't made it to this part yet.
Pics taken from opposite where Buonissimo used to be going towards Seven Sisters.
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Permalink Reply by john higson on
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Rubbish porn, my friend. I'm a bit reluctant to say this because it's not one of the great jobs to have but the street sweeper I've seen around Seven Sisters doesn't really seem like one of life's Wombles - he's more inclined to park up his cart and disappear somewhere for an hour or two
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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I've seen one here drop a cigarette butt as he pushed his cart along!
I can't see that picture by the way. Can you just embed it please?
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Permalink Reply by andy h on
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That's not very friendly Casper!! . I don't recognize that stretch of west green road from your discription.
Maybe you mean the seven sisters end ?
Mind you, having reread it, it sounds very much like green lanes as well. Ha ha!!
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What a sad state of affairs when people find that the only way to keep an area clean is to gentrify it!
Are you saying that less well off people don't deserve, want and know how to be civically minded?
There aren't only "druggies, drunks and criminals" living in our streets.
I have found that going out and speaking to neighbours and shop keepers on your street helps. Create awareness by starting a small scheme to beautify your own local patch. Things grow from there.
Politically British people tend to adopt this attitude and this is what has allowed governments to cut services that should be considered essential by proxy via local boroughs cuts, and get away with it. That isn't going to get any better given the apathy and the tendency to blame external factors (immigrants and the EU) and when the "gentrification" doesn't yield the results what will you do?
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I live on that stretch of the West Green Road and our road sweeper is actually very good. Whatever the problems are they are not down to him. Yes people tend to put little bags of rubbish out, often by lamp posts, which could go in the bins.
I frequently pick up rubbish myself and bin it- it's more constructive than just taking photos. Forgive me, original poster, if you then did that as well.
The "gentrifiers" around here would I have thought be just as likely to vote Labour as the "original" residents.
The OP mentioned Buonissimo. It seems to be re-opening in some form on 1st October.
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Not West Green but in Glenwood I used the online report form for bags of rubbish dumped by a lamp-post on bank holiday Sunday. Veolia cleared them first thing Tuesday morning but by then the foxes had ripped at least one bag open, so although the bags went there was rubbish all over the pavement. A photo and a further online report brought the contractors back on Wednesday to clear up the mess they'd left. So plaudits to the Council for quick response - it was bank hol, so allowance for that - but typical that Veolia only did half the job and then had to come back again (well, I suppose it means they can charge the Council twice).
Incidentally, does anyone think the new online report form is worse than the previous one? The old form had a precise map, tick boxes and prompts asking you to specify exactly where the problem was (address, nearest lamp-post, etc) and details of what had been dumped, but the new one just has a free text box where you have to guess what info Haringey or Veolia need and a useless map that doesn't let you show where in a road the problem is. Once again, "new" means "worse"...
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One thing I would say about the West Green Road, which makes the rubbish situation here more controllable than some places, is that because there is mixed user with residential flats above shops, we have twice a DAY rubbish collections in the morning and in the evening. As well as daily street sweeping.
So all in all I'd say rubbish-wise, and indeed in other respects, it's not that bad an area. Perhaps the oh-so-regular collections spoil people so they just drop litter- probably they'd do it anyway. But I regularly pick litter up, in the street and particularly on Green Gate Common. It's almost a daily routine for me- and I still have to pay council tax!
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