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23.11.04
Lib Dem councillor Lynne Featherstone has welcomed action by Haringey
Council to ensure that litter / fly-tipping blackspots around the Odeon
Cinema and Athenaeum Mews, Muswell Hill are resolved. She has been pressing
the Council for action for several months.
The two areas have received public criticism in recent weeks, and Haringey
Council had previously washed its hands of the responsibility, citing the
Odeon cinema and Sainsbury's supermarket as responsible for the cleansing of
these areas.
However, Haringey Council has now sent a warning letter to Sainsbury's,
pointing out the requirement under the Duty of Care Environmental Protection
Act 1990, section 47 to provide suitable receptacles for the storage of
waste and (section 34) to deal with waste escape from receptacles.
In response, Sainsbury's has given an undertaking to clear all the piled up
refuse from the area. All neighbouring businesses have received letters
advising them of their responsibility with regard to waste disposal.
A new legal notice, called a 'Cleansing Notice', is now available to Haringey
Council to impose on the other blackspot, the Odeon car park. Lib Dem
councillors have pressed for years for the area to be regularly cleared of
fly-tipped rubbish and litter, but in the past have been stonewalled by the
Council who have said that it was not public property and they were
powerless.
The new notice would require the cinema to sweep and cleanse the land once a
week if there is no improvement in the area's cleanliness. However on an
inspection earlier this week council officers reported significant
improvements with litter and fly-tipped rubbish cleared by cinema staff
regularly.
Cllr Featherstone comments:
"I am pleased that finally action is being taken to resolve these two
blackspots. However I am concerned that it has taken so much pressure from
residents, councillors and the press to get Haringey Council to take serious
action.
"Haringey Council must get its priorities right and respond to issues raised
by Haringey residents and their representatives, and not wait for a few bad
headlines."
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