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Regular dumping spot in High Road Tottenham outside 1 St Loy's Road.

Small local businesses are having a hard time surviving in the recession. People who dump rubbish on the pavement outside are making things harder still.

Photos taken by my partner Zena Brabazon. (Posted with her permission). She emailed officers at Haringey Environment Department. (*See below.) Also copying-in the councillors for Bruce Grove ward and Alan Strickland, councillor for regeneration. ________________________________________

From : Cllr Zena Brabazon Sent : 25 November 2012 01:08 To : Environment Department Cc : Cllrs Alan Strickland; Stuart McNamara; Dilek Dogus; Joe Ejiofor Subject : Dumping at Junction of St Loys Road and High Road

Dear All

Attached to this email is a photo I took on 21 November on Tottenham High Road. It's outside the newsagents by St. Loy's Road. This pile of bags had already been there for at least two days when I took the picture. I have since taken pictures on 23 and 24 November of the same, but growing pile of bags.

What is going on here? The newsagent tells me it has been there for 8 days - uncollected and in plain sight. I should add that this is an ongoing problem. I assume that the rubbish will be removed once you've seen this and the other photos but that just isn't good enough. I believe Cllr McNamara has also reported this problem.

We are talking about regenerating the High Road all the time, and have many grand plans which have cost a lot of money to produce. Yet this is happening before our eyes. The problems needs solving so we know who is dumping these bags and where the rubbish is coming from. There are flats above shops in this part of the High Road, but also lots of small houses with no or very small front gardens. Surely an audit of what is happening here can take place. The puzzle is why is it still going on and it seems that enforcement and Veolia have not reported it. To make things even worse the newsagent also told me that the purple bags which were piled there were taken. leaving this behind. He also told Alan that he thinks there are people living across the street, maybe down the alley and/or above the shops with inadequate or no waste facilities.

I know I can report this on the website but I actually would like this problem to be investigated and then solved. No residents or businesses should have to put up with this. I'm sending the photos of the same pile which I took on 23 and 24 November. They are also on Alan's Flickr site.

Thanks

Zena

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