From their one-star rating, to one of the highest Council Taxes in London, to their failures in child protection, to the financial incompetence over Alexandra Palace, it’s the same story: high taxes but dreadful services.
Labour-run Haringey is one of the worst performing councils in London. Ofsted have said that when they inspected Haringey with regard to child protection – Haringey gave them misleading information.
Haringey Council spends money like water on consultants and temps and agency workers – and bungled plans that get aborted, wasting everyone’s time and money.
And Haringey Council likes snooping – using the powers granted originally to fight terrorism to now spy on all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons nothing to do with terrorism. However, when it comes to prosecuting fly tippers or enforcing planning applications – those appear to be areas they avoid. Much easier to target the law-abiding for cash than the criminals. With 40% of parking tickets refunded – they should be charged for wasting our time!
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- Local people should be consulted on plans put forward by a mobile phone operator to install a new mobile phone mast on a sheltered housing block in Muswell Hill, Liberal Democrats have demanded. Since early February local councillors have battled with representatives acting on behalf of Vodafone and Haringey Council to get details on how [...] read on
- To meet the local heroes who have kept a local luncheon club open despite loss of Council funding, Lynne Featherstone MP and Councillor David Winksill this week, visited Woodside House in Wood Green. The visit included talking with luncheon club users about how they have managed to keep the Tuesday club going despite the complete [...] read on
- Documents revealed last week show how Labour councillors propose to spend over one million pounds next year on creating a fund which has no agreed plan or purpose and has the name of the party’s election manifesto. Local Liberal Democrats have branded the £1.2million ‘One Borough, One Future fund’ a Labour slush fund which is [...] read on
- Haringey Council did not consult local people on a fundamental change to the way in which rubbish will be collected in the borough, it has emerged. Last week senior officers addressing the Muswell Hill Area Forum admitted that residents were not asked during a borough-wide consultation on the Council’s waste contract whether they wanted the Council to [...] read on
- Local Liberal Democrats have branded the re-run of a consultation on a Council strategy a sham after a report published last week showed that the Council has disregarded the responses of many local residents. Despite voicing their strong opposition to the changes which pave the way for the waste plant at Pinkham Way sixty responses [...] read on
- Information uncovered by local Liberal Democrats shows that last year Haringey Council had to cancel 277 parking tickets, at an estimated cost of £36,000, after it failed to respond to residents’ parking appeals in time. Liberal Democrats have said that the information is evidence that the Council has handed out so many parking fines that [...] read on
- Local residents face a new year with the staggering prospect of Council Tax bills in Haringey topping £1,500 after Labour councillors refused to support a Council Tax freeze despite funding being available from government to halt any tax rises. Liberal Democrats have renewed their call on Labour-run Haringey Council to freeze Council Tax in 2012/13 [...] read on