There are just hours left for residents to have their say on rail services at Harringay, Hornsey and Finsbury Park Stations – as the Department for Transport’s consultation finishes today (Thursday 23rd August).  The consultation is especially important as Harringay and Hornsey Stations could miss out on a £6bn Government upgrade to services from the Thameslink […]

Angry local residents have spoken out against Haringey Council vetoing a plan for a 20 mph limit for Stroud Green Road.  The residents were interviewed along with Cllr Richard Wilson on the BBC London radio drive time slot – calling for the Council to the think again. Islington Council has decided to implement 20mph restrictions […]

At the end of May Cllr Richard Wilson posted on his blog about what he’d done to respond to complaints about an ugly canopy that had sprung up without planning permission at the car wash on Upper Tollington Park (behind the Stroud Green Road Nandos).  The owners applied for retrospective planning permission to try to avoid having to take the structure down. Richard […]

Cllr Richard Wilson of Stroud Green ward has had a number of complaints about the corner of Stroud Green Road and Upper Tollington Park (outside the excellent Vagabond cafe), where rubbish keeps piling up around the large recycling bins.  Richard keeps reporting the problem, but every time he’s in the area it still looks the same […]

Katherine Reece, Stroud Green Councillor and Deputy Leader of the Lib Dem group on Haringey council, has this week submitted a list of residents ideas and concerns to Haringey’s highways officials, to try to influence plans for road safety measures on Upper Tollington Park.  As Councillor Richard Wilson mentioned in a previous post on his blog, a long running campaign […]

Haringey Council has revealed that it has a cash lump sum from organisers of the Jamaica Village festival after plans for the ten-day event in Finsbury Park were abandoned last month. Liberal Democrats, who found out about details of the non-refundable deposit paid to the Council after a Freedom of Information request, have said that […]

On Friday, Richard visited the building site for the new Park Theatre for the first time.  Richard heard about this amazing plan to build a new commercial theatre in Finsbury Park, but didn’t know much about it until the visit. Two of the directors (Jez Bond and Andrew Fishwick – pictured) presented their plans to […]

On Saturday, Richard Wilson attended the Stroud Green Neighbourhood Day – an afternoon of community activity in the roads around Stroud Green Library. Well done to Kit, Helen and everyone else involved in co-ordinating the stalls and organising the activities.  It’s a great way of bringing people together. Richard says, “I particularly enjoyed the Stroud Green Women’s […]

Over the last few weeks a number of people have contacted the local Liberal Democrat team, concerned that someone is living on the Parkland Walk in Stroud Green. Local residents were concerned the person has mental health problems and is damaging the nature area by pulling up bushes and plants. Obviously, its completely unacceptable for someone to […]

We’ve recently been told that Haringey Council’s plans for a 10 day music and sport festival in Finsbury Park have fallen through after the event organisers failed to raise the necessary finance.   The proposed ‘Jamaica Village‘ event during the Olympics was controversial with residents because of the unprecedented length – and concerns about noise, anti-social behaviour and litter.  Ordinary […]