Charging the honest so the guilty go free...

The evidence begins to stack up... Unusually, in this case the victims are local businesses and not the residents.

CONTEXT: Rangemoor Industrial Estate

• Lots of empty units MEANS
• More fly tipping
• No security put in place despite frequent and direct requests from the police to support their work MEANS
• EVEN MORE fly tipping MEANS...
• someone has to pay to clear it up
  

QUESTION: Who do you think pays for the clear up? The Council?

ANSWER: Don't be silly.... the businesses who work there of course!

Yep, it transpires that even though they pay standing charges, the council get the businesses who use the area to pay for the clear up of illegal fly tipping caused by council negligence..

Iceland... Prefabs - it all makes sense

Maybe it's because the council are only going to get 80% of our money back from Icelandic banks, that they've only cleared the rubbish from one of the prefabs and not all of them....

That said... I've heard it on the QT from that the £30k it would cost to clear the prefabs is nothing and if they really wanted to they could have done it by now...

So, why haven't they.....

O'Donovans on the Ladder...

We are not alone....

"I have managed to get a small sample of skip truck visits to Lausanne Rd. I do this primarily by lying in bed an extra half hour knowing that I will be woken at least by the time the truck gets to the passage. Pen and paper on the bedside table and all I have to do is pull the curtain back and take a quick look.

20th May 2008 - 0715 - EU07 EYA, O'Donovan's
21st May 2008 - 0850 - Y666 MOD, O'Donovan's (followed to Hornsey station works and spoken to)
23rd May 2008 - 0700 - Y433 RNN, O'Donovan's
30th May 2008 - 0700 - Y666 MOD, O'Donovan's
2nd June 2008 - 0700 - Y666 MOD, O'Donovan's
5th June 2008 - 0630 - EU07 EYA, O'Donovan's
0650 - DA02 OHB, O'Donovan's (I think, really not sure though)
6th June 2008 - 0620 - P11 MOD, O'Donovan's
0655 - EU04 VCG, O'Donovan's (licence plate filthy)
0750 - EU04 VCG, O'Donovan's (back again for a second go)
0755 - GH07 GBN, I don't think this was O'Donovan's
7th June 2008 - 0810 - GH07 GBN, Not sure where he's from
0845 - LK51 OUD, O'Donovan's
9th June 2008 - 0630 - KE06 LND, O'Donovan's
0730 - Y666 MOD, O'Donovan's
11th June 2008 - 0800 - EU07 EYA, O'Donovan's (outside the Queen's Head, heading east. We had a nice big yelling match in the middle of the road)
12th June 2008 - 0615 - DA02 OHB, Not sure where he's from

It's sparse because of holidays and not being in the bedroom at the time etc. One day I lay in bed ill and counted 15 skip trucks in total. That was when I decided to get off my bum and do something about it." John, Haringay Online - My Little list of skip truck visits

And yes, we're trying to find out how they did it...

Check out the HARINGAY ONLINE community website to find out what's going on over Green Lanes way - http://www.harringayonline.com. You will need to register to get on...

April O'Donovans Update

No reversing without a banksman they say... hilarious. These were taken by a resident trying to leave the park with a 4 year old and 8 month old twins...

They now have three sites and every day they park on yellow lines on a corner. Every day they get away with it. And of course their lorries can't actually access their new site on Constable Crescent without using both pavements, blocking the road and again making life for residents interminable. Where oh, where are the council?

Oh, and did I mention the verbal abuse a resident received for daring to toot a lorry when trying to get it to move so she could get past? That one was witnessed by Jackie O'D so no denials possible there. And for once something that the council is not indirectly responsible for!

Money should talk in this instance...

Sanctuary Housing have had plans passed for construction of high density housing (flats and 3-4 bed houses) on the prefabs land. They don't own the land. Priscilla Wakefield have put in an unconditional offer - that is higher - for the same land. If they get it they will then work with community to develop a sheltered accommodation for couples where one partner is suffering debilitating illness, a drop in centre and a cafe open to the public.

Hmmm... what sounds better? More people no services or less people, jobs and facilities for the community? No-brainer - but not here - Sanctuary have a history with Haringey.

We wait with bated breath as the valuer reports to the council and the plots thickens .

April update...

Three questions sent to the council with a deadline for response of end of April. They shouldn't be too hard to answer - and certainly not if you're the Head of Urban Planning in Haringey.

When

• will the prefabs be demolished and the health and safety risk removed?
• will the council enforce the unsafe and illegal practices taking place on public roads by local businesses which endanger those attempting to access the park and schools?

What and where

• is the long term plan for this area?

Why questions via email? Because with a site meeting set, at the last minute he wanted to send his deputies instead. Well, we've done deputies. We want answers. And, if we don't get them? Time to go further.

Incident of the month... Double Standards - March

Tottenham landlord fined £1750 - for not clearing his front garden - Haringey People.

Yep, happy to fine a landlord yet can't even clear the rubbish on their own land...