Following the recent petrol shortages, Liberal Democrat councillors have been volunteering with local residents in Bounds Green, in an attempt to bring some order to the petrol station there, which has been totally overwhelmed by motorists.

Liberal Democrat councillors in Haringey attended a march last weekend against the renewal of Edmonton Incinerator. Councillors Scott Emery (LD-Muswell Hill) and Justin Hinchcliffe (LD-Fortis Green) joined the march along with hundreds of protesters, arguing that the proposed £1 billion incinerator will be both a waste of taxpayers’ money and will contribute to worsened air quality.

An analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown that Tottenham will have the second highest number of families who will be hit by the £20 cut to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit planned for October.

Haringey Liberal Democrats have written to the Minister for Local Government, asking him to review the council’s ‘Haringey People’ magazine. Government guidelines (the Code of Practice for Local Authority Publicity) state that councils may send out magazines to residents no more often than quarterly, but Haringey People goes out six times per year, at a cost of over £20,000 per issue.

Research from the Evening Standard has shown that Haringey had 27 complaints to the ombudsman upheld last year -  the highest number of any council in London. It included one case involving a family threatened with homelessness, where the ombudsman said officers “were unaware of current law or your own procedures, or had chosen to disregard them.”

Research released on 19th July has shown that Haringey has a waiting list of over 6,000 for on-street bike hangars. Meanwhile, current capacity stands at a measly 840 spaces. The council’s draft walking and cycling action plan, which came to cabinet in February, outlined the need for more bike hangars, but only targeted an extra 50 per year, and failed to provide funding for any at all.

A Liberal Democrat motion asking Haringey to join the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign was passed unanimously at last night’s meeting of Full Council. It was agreed that the council should lobby the government to fund greater cladding remediation, and would work with private building owners and Housing Associations to help them rectify issues with cladding.