Over the last few months I’ve had lots of residents and shopkeepers complain to me about refuse sacks piling up by the shops on the Ferme Park Road. This photo was emailed to me this weekend by someone annoyed that the bin bags put out by residents on Saturday morning were not collected all day. Apparently this photo was taken at 11am and the pile grew all day.
These piles of rubbish are not a great advert for shopping in Ferme Park Road and I can understand why people get annoyed. The root of the problem is Haringey’s contract with the refuse collection company Enterprise, which does not require them to collect refuse at any particular time of the day. This means that the residents who live above the shops have no fixed time to leave their rubbish out and Enterprise have fixed time to collect it.
The refuse collection contract is being re-tendered this year, so Ihave formally written to Cllr Bevan, the Labour Cabinet Member in charge of rubbish and recycling, asking that the contract be changed so that there are fixed collection times for shopping areas like Ferme Park Road (as there already are now in some areas such as Crouch End Broadway). This should help solve the problem in the long term.
One even simpler thing that could be done to improve the area is to install some litter bins – as strangely there aren’t any bins by the shops. I’m pleased to say that last week I got an email from the Council confirming they would urgently put in a litter bin outside Londis.