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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
My latest column for the Highgate Handbook and Muswell Hill Flyer is about recycling: Here’s a question - why do we still need bottle banks when we have doorstep recycling? A relevant question as Haringey Council is on the brink of scrapping them. Doorstop recycling is great idea in principle. It responds to the reality of any time poor Londoner; there aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything...
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse ... Martin Newton (councillor for Fortis Green ward) has been doing a survey of parking bays in Muswell Hill and found that many of them don't meet the rules for how parking bays should be laid out and explained to the public. Earlier this year we forced Haringey Council to replace confusing and contradictory parking signage - and also to add further...
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Press called for comment on Haringey Council sending out a press release on a reduction in the number of parking tickets they have issued. Given the number of people who get ticketed wrongly by Haringey and come to me to sort it out (they still haven't refunded the fines they levied on two of their illegal yellow junction boxes) the question really should be - how many do they write off out of the...
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Not good news about Muswell Hill Library - promised plans to refurbish Muswell Hill Library and provide vital disabled access that were due to take place this year have been postponed yet again by Haringey Council. As my colleague Gail Engert ( Muswell Hill ward) put it: " Muswell Hill Library is in a lamentable state with wallpaper hanging off the walls, toilets in an unacceptable condition and the...
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Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
A shop owner in Muswell Hill, London, has likened Haringey Council to the Gestapo after being fined £300 by officers for using the wrong bin bags. Sangita Ibrahim, 47, who owns designer clothes boutique Charli in Muswell Hill Broadway, said: "The shop was really busy and they came bounding in like the Gestapo and said, 'We're investigating a possible crime.' I felt like I was going to be frog-marched...
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Hurrah - my Liberal Democrat council colleagues have at last managed to get Haringey Council to hold a consultation on whether to expand Rhodes Avenue Primary school. In May 2007 Councillor Gail Engert ( Muswell Hill ward) revealed a shocking primary school place 'black hole' - out of the 110 children across all of Haringey who did not receive any of their four school preferences for a reception place,...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Rats have taken over Muswell Hill. And we're not just talking about the clowns from Haringey Council who dumped those confidential documents a few months back. No, these are the genuine deal, the scurrying little beggars themselves, all brown of fur and sharp of claw. Residents in N10 have spotted sewer rats (species: Rattus evillus ) ambling along Dukes Avenue and the Broadway, putting fear and terror...
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
[from Muswell Hill Journal] Action over land grabs nlnews@archant.co.uk 01 May 2008 OWNERS of a Muswell Hill house that allegedly had its back garden extended onto a nature reserve have been forced to remove a fence on the contested site. This comes as Haringey Council announced a crackdown on illegal movement onto council land - known as encroachment - with [...]
