One of things that happens when you become a councillor is people start emailing you pictures of rubbish. A fortnight ago I was contacted by a resident of Florence Road who was very pleased that the Council have installed new bins on the Parkland Walk, but was annoyed that they weren’t getting emptied. He sent me pictures of the resulting mess: a lovely nature reserve blighted by an overflowing rubbish bin and a revolting dog mess bin.
However, a week later there was still no response from the Council to my request to clean the bins up, and the resident was back in touch with even worse pictures (see above). Outraged at the blight on the Walk (a disused railway line turned much-loved nature walk) the resident set me a challenge of getting the bins cleared before the busy bank holiday weekend.
Unfortunately, I can only report a partial success. A parks officer has now added the bins to the collection rota and so they should start being emptied regularly. But as of Friday, the dog waste bin was still full, which isn’t a pleasant thought given how hot its been this weekend.
Its a shame that even when Haringey Council tries to do the right thing it invariable gets it wrong. And its very annoying that even when it is alerted to a simple problem with a bin it fails to get it sorted promptly.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:06 am
So you mean Haringey Council put in new bins but forgot to add them to the list of bins to empty? Classic bureaucratic blunder