Is Haringey Labour Council crooked or incompetent? Those are the only two possibilities for the long-running and expensive debacle over Alexandra Palace.
The Alexandra Palace and Park dominate the landscape of this part of my constituency. It is beautiful to visit – but its history in terms of the financial mess Haringey Labour have made has cost local council taxpayers dear. And it’s not over yet.
However, to the visitor it is a venue for exhibitions, music concerts, annual fireworks and a permanent delight in terms of the lake, pitch and put and beautiful parkland – enhance recently by Heritage Lottery funding.
Alexandra also has the Albert Road recreation ground – with excellent areas for games and a brilliant café and ‘Friends’ who put on many events and achieved green flag status. For the permanent residents of the area the rat runs of lorries, the hideous Labour policy that closed the local sub-post office and the financial drain and dodgy dealings of Haringey Council trying to get rid of the Palace and Park are the key issues.
My Liberal Democrat Ward councillor colleagues here are David Beacham, Juliet Solomon and Nigel Scott.
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