Its not very often that residents contact you asking for the Council not to repair something, but that is what happened this week with the smashed wall at the end of Ridge Road. The wall is outside Chettle Court, at the entrance to the little row of houses called Highbank Way.
The wall is regularly knocked down by cars reversing and turning, and residents are fed up with seeing money wasted endlessly repairing it. This picture is of me by the wall in August last time it was damaged. Since then it has been repaired and now knocked down again.
Residents are also annoyed, because it attracts groups of young people who sit on it – and sometimes it is used as a bench by people drinking alcohol in the street. In my picture you can see there is a beer bottle sitting on the broken wall.
Therefore, I’ve backed residents calls that the Council’s housing organisation Homes for Haringey (which owns the wall) just removes it completely. Hopefully this will improve the local area and save some public money to be spent on more useful things.