Crouch End Lib Dem councillor David Winskill has welcomed moves to sort out the problems at the busy recycling point near Hornsey Library in Crouch End.

The Haringey Park site has been beset with problems in recent months, with the failure to clear the bottle and paper banks regularly causing a sea of dumped bottles, cans and newspapers near the recycling bins. David Winskill has just conducted a survey of users on the problems. A majority of residents wanted to keep the site, but felt that the situation had to be improved.

Haringey Council has agreed that the containers were often not emptied twice a week, as they should have been, on Friday afternoons and Monday mornings. The council have also agreed that the contractor that had been carrying out the work had a record that was “at best poor.”Cllr Winskill’s understanding is that contractors have now been replaced, and some of the containers have been replaced with larger ones.

David Winskill comments: “This is a good start, and gives hope that there will now be an improvement. What is clear to me is that local residents want to recycle as much as they can, and we need to support them in doing so – and not by creating an unsightly mess, as we have had. I will be watching to see that things do now improve.”

Councillor Winskill is urging local residents to report any deterioration in the service by sending him an email at recycling@haringeylibdems.org.