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 […]

Over the last few years many residents have complained to local councillors about the speed of traffic on Upper Tollington Park and safety at the pedestrian crossing by Florence Road. So in 2010, Lynne Featherstone, Katherine Reece, Ed Butcher and Richard Wilson started a campaign to get the Council to take action to slow down […]

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 […]

In January, Richard was contacted by a number of residents who were angry about the unauthorised building work at the hand car wash on Upper Tollington Park (behind Nando’s and next door to the Osborne Grove Nursing Home). They were annoyed about a large new corrugated plastic canopy structure that has been built, which they think […]

Despite huge opposition and complaints from residents the Council plans to push ahead with plans to implement fortnightly collections of non-recyclable rubbish in Stroud Green in June.  They have written to residents in the last week telling them about the new arrangements, which also means new recycling wheelie bins will replace the current green recycling boxes and […]

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 […]

With the W3 being the most complained about bus service in the whole of London it was easy to persuade our London Assembly candidates to help out with a survey of W3 bus users last week. Lynne Featherstone and the Stroud Green Liberal Democrat team have been pressing Transport for London to sort out the problems on the bus route – […]

Cllr Ed Butcher has recently persuaded the Council to install road signs on a dangerous road bend, where there has been a number of accidents in recent years.  Hazard signs have been put up on the bend of Upper Tollington Park, by the junction with Oakfield Road after requests from Ed. There have been a good few accidents here […]