Tottenham Conservatives blast Haringey's conservation record 01/05/04

Tottenham Conservative Chairman Lydia Rivlin panned Haringey's record on preserving its heritage, when she visited the  "Learning Centre" building on West Green Road last week.

"They built that great modern glass thing to house the Park View Academy and left the Learning Centre falling apart just next door," she said. "Even if it was not suitable for a modern school it would certainly make a terrific library or a community or arts centre. As we all know, West Green is in need of all the regeneration help it can get. I have been told the Council sold it to a company which was supposed to be putting the building to 'community use'. But but I can't think what community he is talking about, unless it is a community of rats. Why is the council allowing this? There's shrubbery growing out of the roof, for heaven's sake."

William MacDougall, Tottenham's Parliamentary Candidate added; "If this follows the usual pattern of Haringey mismanagement, the next step will be that vandals break in and burn it down.  We have
lost too much of the architecturally beautiful Tottenham to this sort of behaviour."

ENDS.