Haringey Council cocks-up on Assembly mailout - residents left unaware of meeting 29/09/05

Haringey council’s famous motto is, “you talk, we listen" but residents of Northumberland Park and White Hart Lane were kept in the dark about the last Area Assembly (19th September) because the council’s database system had crashed and residents’ details lost. Only a handful of people, mostly council staff and councillors, turned up because residents were not given any notice of the meeting.

Speaking on this latest council cock-up, Justin Hinchcliffe, Chairman of Tottenham Conservatives and a local resident, said:

“This council couldn’t hold a stag night in a brewery, to put it very mildly. We’ve always known that councillors and officers treat local residents with contempt and this latest episode makes a mockery of their claims to be a ‘listening’ council. As Chairwoman of the Assembly, Cllr. Sheila Peacock should apologise to local people and order an investigation into what actually happened.”

ENDS.